October 1997 (2:4)

Articles:

Theodore Steinberg, "Do-It-Yourself Deathscape: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in Southern Florida," pp. 414-38.

Andrew Hurley, "Fiasco at Wagner Electric: Environmental Justice and Urban Geography in St. Louis," pp. 460-81.

Wenhui Hou, "Reflections on Chinese Traditional Ideas of Nature," pp. 482-93.

Book Reviews:

Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. By Christopher C. Sellers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xv + 331 pp. Reviewed by Christine Meisner Rosen.

Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis. Edited by Andrew Hurley. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, for the Missouri Historical Society Press, 1997. xiv + 320 pp. Reviewed by Adam W. Rome.

The Natures of John and William Bartram. By Thomas P. Slaughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. xx + 304 pp. Reviewed by Larry Hartsfield.

The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862. By Carol Sheriff. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. xviii + 251 pp. Reviewed by Brian Black.

The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West. By Frieda Knobloch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xi + 204 pp. Reviewed by John Opie.

Wilderness and the Changing American West. By Gundars Rudzitis. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1996. xvi + 220 pp. Reviewed by Paul S. Sutter.

Land of Rivers: America in Wood and Image. Edited by Peter C. Mancall. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. xiv + 208 pp. Reviewed by Todd M. Kerstetter.

Rufus Woods: The Columbia River and the Building of Modern Washington. By Robert E. Ficken. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995. xvi + 312 pp. Reviewed by Kazuto Oshio.

Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. By William D. Rowley. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. xiii + 199 pp. Reviewed by Kazuto Oshio.

A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate. Edited by Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996. x + 323 pp. Reviewed by James N. Gladden.

The Others: How Animals Made Us Human. By Paul Shepard. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996. x + 374 pp. Reviewed by Louis Warren.

Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise. By David Takacs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xix + 393 pp. Reviewed by Michael P. Cohen.

Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852. By David Schuyler. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xii + 290 pp. Reviewed by Elizabeth Blackmar.

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape. By Charles E. Beveridge and Paul Rocheleau. Edited by David Larkin. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1995. 276 pp. Reviewed by Elizabeth Blackmar.

Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature. By Martin Warnke. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. 165 pp. Reviewed by Phillip D. Thomas.

Cultures of Natural History. Edited by Nicholas Jardine, James A. Secord, and Emma C. Spary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxi + 501 pp. Reviewed by S. Ravi Rajan.

Promising the Earth. By Robert Lamb, in collaboration with Friends of the Earth. London: Routledge, 1996. xvii + 224 pp. Reviewed by Robert A. Lambert.

De Forets, considerees dans leurs rapports avec la constitution physique du globe et l'economie des societes. By Frederic LePlay. Fontenay, France: Centre de Publications, 1996. Reviewed by Stephanie Pincetl.

Straws in the Wind: Medieval Urban Environmental Law: The Case of Northern Italy. By Ronald E. Zupko and Robert A. Laures. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. vii + 152 pp. Reviewed by Paolo Squatriti.

Fencing the Forest: Conservation and Ecological Change in India's Central Provinces, 1860-1914. By Mahesh Rangarajan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 245 pp. Reviewed by Christopher V. Hill.

A New Name for Peace: International Environmentalism, Sustainable Development, and Democracy. By Philip Shabecoff. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996. xii + 271 pp. Reviewed by John D. Wirth.

The Environment and NAFTA: Understanding and Implementing the New Continental Law. By Pierre Marc Johnson and Andre Beaulieu. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996. xvi + 412 pp. Reviewed by John D. Wirth.