Contents for Vol. 13, No. 2 (April 2008)

Articles:

Mark Stoll. “Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea,” 237-274.

Alon Tal. “Enduring Technological Optimism: Zionism's Environmental Ethic and Its Influence on Israel's Environmental History,” 275-305.  

Micah Muscolino. “The Yellow Croaker War: Fishery Disputes between China and Japan, 1925-1935,” 306-324.       

Peter S. Alagona. “Homes on the Range: Cooperative Conservation and Environmental Change on California's Privately Owned Hardwood Rangelands,” 325-350.

Gallery:

Mark Fiege and Stephen Mihm.  “On Bank Notes,” 351-359.

Sources:

Mary Thornbush. “On Postcards Used to Track Environmental History,” 360-365.

Book Reviews:

Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. By Gregg Mitman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. xv + 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $30.00. Reviewed by Cynthia Melendy.

There Will Be Blood. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Paramount, 2007. DVD. 158 min. $34.99. Reviewed by Brian Black.

The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938. By Myrna I. Santiago. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00. Reviewed by Brian Black.

Por abajo del agua: sobreexplotación y agotamiento del acuífero de la Costa de Hermosillo, 1945-2005 [Under the Water: Overexploitation and Depletion of the Costa de Hermosillo Aquifer, 1945-2005]. By José Luis Moreno Vázquez. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 2006. 507 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $35.00. Reviewed by Sterling Evans.

Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. By Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xviii + 283 pp. Bibliography and index. Paper $23.95. Reviewed by José Drummond.

Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. By Karl Boyd Brooks. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Weyerhauser Environmental Books Series. xxvii + 290 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $35.00. Reviewed by Donald C. Jackson.

Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks. By Hal K. Rothman. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii + 281 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Jeffrey K. Stine.

National Park, City Playground: Mount Rainier in the Twentieth Century. By Theodore Catton. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006 ix + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $18.95. Reviewed by Terence Young.

Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It. By Kimberly A. Jarvis. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press and Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007. Revisiting New England: The Regionalism Series. xviii + 214 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $25.95. Reviewed by Cynthia Melendy.

The Forests of Michigan. By Donald I. Dickmann and Larry A. Leefers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 304 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, and bibliography. Cloth $55.00, paper $29.95. Reviewed by David Mladenoff.

Michigan’s State Forests: A Century of Stewardship. By William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2006. xx + 201 pp. Illustration, tables, map, notes, and bibliography, and index. Paper $29.95. Reviewed by David Mladenoff.

Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. By John Wills. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xi + 244 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Mara Drogan.

This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. By Sarah T. Phillips. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 289 pp. Illustration, notes, tables, and index. Paper $23.99. Reviewed by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg.

Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope. By Eric T. Freyfogle. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Culture of the Land Series. 183 pp. Notes and index. Cloth $30.00. Reviewed by Nicolaas Mink.

Fishing on Common Grounds: The Consequences of Unregulated Fisheries of North Sea Herring in the Postwar Period. By Hrefna Karlsdóttir. Göteborg, Sweden: Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, 2005. 221 pp. Maps, tables, figures, and bibliography. Paper SEK 200.00. Reviewed by Vera Schwach.

Entreprises et environnement en France de 1960 a 1990: Les chemins d’une prise de conscience [Business and Environment in France, 1960-1990: Following One’s Conscience]. By Daniel Boullet. Geneva, Switzerland: Librarie Droz, 2006. 696 pp. Figures, appendices, glossary, and indices. Paper 60.06 EUR. Reviewed by Florian Charvolin.

From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier. By David McDermott Hughes. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press in association with Weaver Press, Harare, 2006. xvii + 285 pp. Maps, notes, and index. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by Jane Carruthers.

The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya. By J. Mark Baker. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2005. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. xiii +271 pp. Includes illustrations, notes, tables, glossary, bibliography, and index. Cloth $40.00. Reviewed by Thomas Robertson.