Recent Scholarship
Environment and Natural Resources
Aldrich, Mark, “From Forest Conservation to Market Preservation: Invention and Diffusion of Wood-Preserving Technology, 1880–1939,” Technology and Culture, 47 (April 2006), 311–40.
Appuhn, Karl, et al., “What Books Should Be More Widely Read in Environmental History?,” Environmental History, 10 (Oct. 2005), 666–769. Forum.
Bell, Trudy E., “Forgotten Waters: Indiana’s Great Easter Flood of 1913,” Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, 18 (Spring 2006), 4–15.
Coates, Peter A., “The Strange Stillness of the Past: Toward an Environmental History of Sound and Noise,” Environmental History, 10 (Oct. 2005), 636–65.
Cohen, Benjamin R., “Surveying Nature: Environmental Dimensions of Virginia’s First Scientific Survey, 1835–1842,” Environmental History, 11 (Jan. 2006), 37–69.
Ducker, James H., “Reindeer Rescue: The 1898 Reindeer Drive to Barrow,” Alaska History, 20 (Spring 2005), 1–23.
Guorong, Gao, “20shiji 60niandai Meiguode shachongji bianlun jiqi yingxiang” (The American controversy over the use of pesticides in the 1960s and its repercussions), World History (Beijing) (no. 2, 2003), 12–23. In Chinese.
Harper, Christine Froechtenigt, “The Water Wizard: John F. Wixford and the Purification of the St. Louis Water Supply in 1904,” Missouri Historical Review, 99 (Oct. 2004), 24–45.
Hersey, Mark, “Hints and Suggestions to Farmers: George Washington Carver and Rural Conservation in the South,” Environmental History, 11 (April 2006), 239–68.
Parr, Joy, “Smells Like? Sources of Uncertainty in the History of the Great Lakes Environment,” Environmental History, 11 (April 2006), 269–99.
Peck, Gunther, “The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and Labor History,” Environmental History, 11 (April 2006), 212–38.
Sheridan, Thomas E., “Rio Rico and the Great Arizona Land Rush,” Journal of the Southwest, 48 (Spring 2006), 1–36.
Smith, Michael B., “‘The Ego Ideal of the Good Camper’ and the Nature of Summer Camp,” Environmental History, 11 (Jan. 2006), 70–101.
Taylor, Matthew J., “Biomass in the Borderlands: Charcoal and Firewood Production in Sonoran Ejidos,” Journal of the Southwest, 48 (Spring 2006), 63–90.
Turkel, William, “Every Place Is an Archive: Environmental History and the Interpretation of Physical Evidence,” Rethinking History (London), 10 (June 2006), 259–76.
Wier, Georgia, “From Nordenskiold to Nusbaum: Photography, Archaeology, and Tourism in the Early Years of Mesa Verde National Park,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2006), 19–33. Heavily illustrated.
Hay, Amy Marie, “Recipe for Disaster: Chemical Wastes, Community Activists, and Public Health at Love Canal, 1945–2000” (Michigan State University, 2005). Order No. DA3189665.
Silvaggio, Anthony Vincent, “The Forest Defense Movement, 1980–2005: Resistance at the Point of Extraction, Consumption, and Production” (University of Oregon, 2005). Order No. DA3190548.
Stein, Amy Ilona, “Flooding the Market: A History of the American Wilderness Image” (Northern Arizona University, 2005). Order No. DA3189075.
Biel, Alice Wondrak, Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii, 186 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 0-7006-1432-X. Paper, $15.95, isbn 0-7006-1458-3.)
Black, Brian, Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Life. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. xviii, 237 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-313-33200-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Donahue, Jesse, and Erik Trump, The Politics of Zoos: Exotic Animals and Their Protectors. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. xii, 224 pp. Cloth, $40.00, isbn 978-0-87580-364-7. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-0-87580-613-6.)
Glave, Dianne D., and Mark Stoll, eds., “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xvi, 271 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-8229-4275-5. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8229-5899-6.)
Kaye, Roger, Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2006. xx, 283 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-889963-83-9.)
Minteer, Ben A., The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2006. x, 264 pp. $28.00, isbn 0-262-13461-6.)
Burroughs, John, Signs & Seasons, ed. Jeff Walker. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. xxx, 388 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-8156-0875-6.) Originally published in 1886.
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