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Environment and Natural Resources

 

Boime, Eric, “‘Beating Plowshares into Swords’: The Colorado River Delta, the Yellow Peril, and the Movement for Federal Reclamation, 1901–1928,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 27–55.

Buecker, Thomas R., “The Fort Robinson War Dog Reception and Training Center, 1942–1946,” Military History of the West, 38 (2008), 115–40.

Caporaso, Alicia, “Six Upper Missouri River Fur Trading Posts: Trends in Organization,” South Dakota History, 38 (Winter 2008), 312–34.

Chang, David A., “‘An Equal Interest in the Soil’: Creek Small-Scale Farming and the Work of Nationhood, 1866–1889,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Winter 2008), http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_indian_quarterly/v033/33.1.chang.pdf.

Davis, Frank L., Albert H. Wurth, and John C. Lazarus, “The Green Vote in Presidential Elections: Past Performance and Future Promise,” Social Science Journal, 45 (Dec. 2008), 525–45.

Everett, Derek R., “To Shed Our Blood for Our Beloved Territory: The Iowa-Missouri Borderland,” Annals of Iowa, 67 (Fall 2008), 269–97.

Gills, Bradley J., “Navigating the Landscape of Assimilation: The Anishnabeg, the Lumber Industry, and the Failure of Federal Indian Policy in Michigan,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 57–74.

Hagen, Joel B., “Teaching Ecology during the Environmental Age, 1965–1980,” Environmental History, 13 (Oct. 2008), 704–23.

Hirt, Paul, Annie Gustafson, and Kelli L. Larson, “The Mirage in the Valley of the Sun,” Environmental History, 13 (July 2008), 482–514.

Hoffman, Richard C., et al., “AHR Conversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis,” American Historical Review, 113 (Dec. 2008), 1431–65.

Rome, Adam, “Nature Wars, Culture Wars: Immigration and Environmental Reform in the Progressive Era,” Environmental History, 13 (July 2008), 432–53.

Skillen, James R., “Closing the Public Lands Frontier: The Bureau of Land Management, 1961–1969,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 3, 2008), 419–45.

St-Onge, Nicole, “The Persistence of Travel and Trade: St. Lawrence River Valley French Engagés and the American Fur Company, 1818–1840,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 17–37.

Stradling, David, and Richard Stradling, “Perceptions of the Burning River: Deindustrialization and Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River,” Environmental History, 13 (July 2008), 515–35.

 

Balsiger, Joerg, “Uphill Struggles: The Politics of Sustainable Mountain Development in the Swiss Alps and California’s Sierra Nevada” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306057.

Chanse, Victoria Teresa, “Muddy, Mapped, and Maintained: Urban Creeks and the Emerging Practice of Participatory Watershed Stewardship” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306089.

de Vries, Daniel H., “Temporal Vulnerability: Historical Ecologies of Monitoring, Memory, and Meaning in Changing United States Floodplain Landscapes” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3304420.

Everett, Derek R., “Frontiers Within: State Boundaries and Borderlands in the American West” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3317810.

Giese, Michael W., “A Federal Foundation for Wildlife Conservation: The Evolution of the National Wildlife Refuge System, 1920–1968” (American University, 2008). Order No. DA3305788.

Hazleton, Gregory J., “Composition as Ecology: Environments of Writing in American Poetry in the Emersonian Tradition” (Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3316625.

Lewis, Keri, “Negotiating for Nature: Conservation Diplomacy and the Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere, 1929–1976” (University of New Hampshire, 2008). Order No. DA3308377.

 

Baker, Nicholas, and Margaret M. Betts, John Prentiss Benson: American Marine Artist. (Portsmouth: Baker Marine, 2008. 136 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-9821761-0-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Hennigan, Robert D., Water for New York I: The Development and Management of the Waters of New York, 1789–1970. (Victoria, Canada: Trafford, 2006. xvi, 255 pp. Paper, $21.99, isbn 978-1-4120613-0.)

Levitt, Jeremy I., and Matthew C. Whitaker, Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 324 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1760-7.)

 

Helms, Douglas, Steven E. Phillips, and Paul F. Reich, eds., The History of Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting: Interviews with U.S. Department of Agriculture Pioneers. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2008. xii, 306 pp.) Available online at www.nrcs.usda.gov.

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