Contents for Vol. 14, No.4 (October 2009)

Articles:

Nancy Langston. “Paradise Lost: Climate Change, Boreal Forests, and Environmental History.” 641-650.

Terence Young. “ ‘A Contradiction in Democratic Government': W. J. Trent, Jr., and the Struggle to Desegregate National Park Campgrounds.” 651-682.

James Giesen. “ ‘The Truth about the Boll Weevil': The Nature of Planter Power in the Mississippi Delta.” 683-704.

Darren Speece. “ From Corporatism to Citizen Oversight: The Legal Fight over California Redwoods, 1970-1996.” 705-736.

Matthew Evenden. “ Environmental History Pedagogy beyond History and on the Web.” 737-743.

Gallery:

Benjamin Cohen. “On Three Peasants on Their Way to a Meal: ‘The Gleaners,' Macaroni, and Human Intervention in Nature.” 744-752.

Book Reviews:

America's Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration . By Gary Kroll. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. ix + 249 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Mark V. Barrow, Jr.

Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath. By Charles F. Walker. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. xiii + 260 pages. Tables, Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95. Reviewed by Marcus Hall.

Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. By Alix Cooper. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 218 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $87.99. Reviewed by Richard C. Hoffmann .

Global Environmental History. By I. G. Simmons. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xvi + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $49.00. Reviewed by Richard Tucker .

Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies from the United States. Edited by Mary Doyle and Cynthia A. Drew. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2008. xiv + 325 pp. Maps, figures, tables, and index. Paper $35.00. Reviewed by Richard Oram.

Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees. By Nalini M. Nadkarni. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2008. xii + 322 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, and index. Cloth $24.95. Reviewed by Lori Vermaas.

Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast. By Connie Y. Chiang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xviii + 282 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $35.00. Reviewed by Philip Garone.

The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. By Adam M. Sowards. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009. x + 198 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $24.95. Reviewed by Elizabeth Blum.

Arthur Carhart: Wilderness Prophet. By Tom Wolf. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. viii + 294 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Kevin R. Marsh.

Anacostia: The Death and Life of An American River. By John R. Wennersten. Baltimore: Chesapeake Book Company. xv + 323 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $20.00. Reviewed by J. R. McNeill.

At Work in Penn's Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania. By Joseph M. Speakman. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xv + 237 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $37.50. Reviewed by Ann N. Greene .

Nature & History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson. By James D. Rice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps , notes, and index. Cloth $40.00. Reviewed by Roger Hamilton.

The Wildfire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Edited by George Wuerthner. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006. xvi + 429 pp. Notes and index. Paper $27.50. Reviewed by Gerald (Jerry) W. Williams.

Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the Twenty-First Century. By Sara E. Jensen and Guy R. McPherson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. ix + 180 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, and index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by Gerald (Jerry) W. Williams.

Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30. By Lawrence M. Lipin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Paper $25.00 Reviewed by Richard A. Rajala.

Rivers Under Siege: The Troubled Saga of West Tennessee's Wetlands. By Jim W. Johnson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. xiii + 239 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paper $26.95 Reviewed by Jack E. Davis.

African American Environmental Thought: Foundations. By Kimberly K. Smith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x + 257 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth. Reviewed by Elizabeth Blum.

Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California. By Christopher R. Henke. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008. xi + 226 pp. Illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $32.00. Reviewed by Matthew Hamilton.

High Plains Horticulture: A History. By John F. Freeman. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. xii + 270pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Andrew P. Duffin.

Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities . By Jeff Mapes. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009. 288 pages. Bibliography and index. Paper $19.95. Reviewed by James Pritchard.

City at the Water's Edge: A Natural History of New York. By Betsy McCully. New Brunswick: Rivergate Books an Imprint of Rutgers University Press, 2007. xii + 185 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Hardcover $24.95. Reviewed by Jeremy W. Hubbell. ­­