Recent Scholarship
Environment and Natural Resources
Blackford, Mansel G., “Fishers, Fishing, and Overfishing: American Experiences in Global Perspective, 1976–2006,” Business History Review, 83 (Summer 2009), 239–67.
Den Tandt, Christophe, “From ‘Web of Life’ to Necropolis: An Ecocritical Perspective on Urban Vitalism in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Poetry,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (June 2009), 98–110.
Dilsaver, Lary M., and William Wyckoff, “Failed National Parks in the Last Best Place,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 59 (Autumn 2009), 3–24. Heavily illustrated.
Duchemin, Michael, “Water, Power, and Tourism: Hoover Dam and the Making of the New West,” California History, 86 (no. 4, 2009), 60–78. Heavily illustrated.
Dunaway, Finis, “Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet,” Environmental History, 14 (Jan. 2009), 9–31.
Estok, Simon C., “Discourses of Nation, National Ecopoetics, and Ecocriticism in the Face of the U.S.: Canada and Korea as Case Studies,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (June 2009), 85–97.
Harvey, Douglas S., “Learning the Hard Way: Early Water Control Projects at Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area,” Kansas History, 32 (Autumn 2009), 186–203. Heavily illustrated.
Holley, Val, “Showdown at Geddes Gulch: How Prior Appropriation Ambushed Weber County,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Fall 2009), 333–50.
Kupper, Patrick, “Science and the National Parks: A Transatlantic Perspective on the Interwar Years,” Environmental History, 14 (Jan. 2009), 58–81.
Larson, Kelli L., Annie Gustafson, and Paul Hirt, “Insatiable Thirst and a Finite Supply: An Assessment of Municipal Water-Conservation Policy in Greater Phoenix, Arizona, 1980–2007,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 2, 2009), 107–137.
Lowitt, Richard, “Water and Power: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 1, 1935–1944,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Summer 2009), 132–65.
Luft, Rachael E., “Beyond Disaster Exceptionalism: Social Movement Developments in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 499–528.
Norris, Frank, “Drawing a Line in the Tundra: Conservationists and the Mount McKinley Park Road,” Alaska History, 24 (Fall 2009), 63–76.
Sanders, Kellie R., “‘The Wednesday Monster’: The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward F5 Tornado of April 9, 1947,” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, 80 (2008), 23–44.
Sideris, Lisa H., “Fact and Fiction, Fear and Wonder: The Legacy of Rachel Carson,” Soundings, 91 (Fall–Winter 2009), 335–69.
Sze, Julie, et al., “Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta,” Antipode, 41 (Sept. 2009), 807–43.
Childers, Shari Michelle, “Renegade and Relevant: American Women’s Visions and Voices in Ecocritical Theory and Pedagogical Practice” (University of Texas, Dallas, 2008). Order No. DA3340470.
Frank, Jerritt James, “Marketing the Mountains: An Environmental History of Tourism in Rocky Mountain National Park” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3336872.
Shoreman, Eleanor E., “Regulation, Collaboration, and Conservation: Ecological Anthropology in the Mississippi Delta” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3345587.
Uddin, Lisa, “Breeding Grounds: Race, Space, and Species in the New American Zoo” (University of Rochester, 2009). Order No. DA3343622.
Westerman, Jennifer H., “Landscapes of Labor: Nature, Work, and Environmental Justice in Depression-Era Fiction” (University of Nevada, Reno, 2009). Order No. DA3342624.
Zoulas, James Gary, “Beach Changes in the San Pedro Littoral Cell, Southern California, 1930–2007” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3343338.
McMahon, Eileen M., and Theodore J. Karamanski, North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. xii, 338 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-299-23424-9.)
McPherson, Robert S., Comb Ridge and Its People: The Ethnohistory of a Rock. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. xii, 252 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-87421-737-7.)
Metzger, Lynn, and Peg Bobel, eds., Canal Fever: The Ohio & Erie Canal from Waterway to Canalway. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. x, 382 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-60635-013-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Nelson, Daniel, A Passion for the Land: John F. Seiberling and the Environmental Movement. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. xiv, 263 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-60635-036-2.)
Noll, Steven, and David Tegeder, Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida’s Future. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xii, 394 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3406-5.)
Punke, Michael, Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xvi, 286 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2680-7.)
Truett, Joe C., Grass: In Search of Human Habitat. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xviii, 217 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-520-25839-6.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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