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Volume 13 • Number 1

January 2008


  From the editor


ARTICLES

9 A Tale of Two Journals: Fifty Years of Environmental History—and Its Predecessors
  by Thomas R. Cox

41 The Retreat from Precaution: Regulating Diethylstilbestrol (DES), Endocrine Disruptors, and Environmental Health
  by Nancy Langston

66 What Appeared Limitless Plenty: The Rise and Fall of the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Halibut Fishery
  by Glenn M. Grasso

92 Creating Order: The Liberals, the Landowners, and the Draining of Sumas Lake, British Columbia
  by James Murton

GALLERY

126 Marguerite S. Shaffer On the Environmental Nude
 

INTERVIEW

140 Donald Worster
 

BOOK REVIEWS

156 Alfred W. Crosby. Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy.
  Reviewed by Richard Tucker.

158 James Rodger Fleming. The Callendar Effect: The Life and Work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898–1964), the Scientist Who Established the Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change; and James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen, eds. Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate.
  Reviewed by Mark Carey.

160 Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier, eds. Rethinking Environmental History: World-System History and Global Environmental Change.
  Reviewed by Pekka Hämäläinen.

162 Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr. The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century.
  Reviewed by Brian Black.

163 Julie Sze. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice.
  Reviewed by Elizabeth Blum.

164 Paul Charles Milazzo. Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945–1972.
  Reviewed by Derek Hoff.

166 Renee Corona Kolvet and Victoria Ford. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men; and Robert J. Moore. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country: Working in the Woods.
  Reviewed by Neil M. Maher.

168 Anne Mitchell Whisnant. Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History.
  Reviewed by Margaret Lynn Brown.

169 David Louter. Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks.
  Reviewed by John Herron.

170 Jake Kosek. Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico.
  Reviewed by William deBuys.

172 Paul Warde. Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany.
  Reviewed by Martin Knoll.

173 Katrina Z. S. Schwartz. Nature and National Identity after Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape.
  Reviewed by Eagle Glassheim.

175 Marco Armiero, ed. Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World (19th-20th Centuries).
  Reviewed by J. R. McNeill.

176 Aaron Sachs. The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism.
  Reviewed by Sterling Evans.

178 James D. Nations. The Maya Tropical Forest: People, Parks, and Ancient Cities.
  Reviewed by Ryan J. Carey.

179 Linda Lear. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature.
  Reviewed by Ann Greene.

181 Julianne Lutz Newton. Aldo Leopold's Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac.
  Reviewed by Gregory J. Dehler.

182 Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer, eds. Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism.
  Reviewed by Verena Winiwarter.

183 José Augusto Pádua. Um Sopro de Destruição: Pensamento Político e Crítica Ambiental No Brasil Escravista, 1786–1888 [A Destructive Wind: Political Thought and Environmental Criticism in Slave Brazil, 1786–1888].
  Reviewed by Regina Horta Duarte.

184 Ben A. Minteer. The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America.
  Reviewed by Jordan Kleiman.

185 Cynthia Radding. Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forest of Amazonia from Colony to Republic.
  Reviewed by John Soluri.

187 Gunnel Cederlof and Kalayanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, eds. Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia.
  Reviewed by Erik Solberg.

188 Robert E. Kohler. All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850–1950.
  Reviewed by Thomas R. Dunlap.

189 Timothy J. Farnham. Saving Nature's Legacy: Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity.
  Reviewed by Philip J. Pauly.

190 Adrian Franklin. Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia.
  Reviewed by Don Garden.

192 Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner, eds. The Culture of Hunting in Canada.
  Reviewed by John F. Reiger.

193 Stephen Most. River of Renewal: Myth and History in the Klamath Basin.
  Reviewed by Coll Thrush.

194 Trey Berry, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements. The Forgotten Expedition, 1804–1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter.
  Reviewed by Michael Pierce.

196 Philip L. Jackson and Robert Kuhlken. A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use and Resource Issues in the New West.
  Reviewed by Sarah Phillips.

197 David Robertson. Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town.
  Reviewed by Kent Curtis.

198 H. Craig Miner. Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890–1940.
  Reviewed by Elizabeth Herbin.

BIBLIOSCOPE

200 Books

208 Articles

215 Theses and Dissertations

217 Archives


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