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Environment and Natural Resources

 

Alagona, Peter S., “Homes on the Range: Cooperative Conservation and Environmental Change on California’s Privately Owned Hardwood Rangelands,” Environmental History, 13 (April 2008), 325–49.

Bogener, Stephen, “Land, Speculation, and Manipulation on the Pecos,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Summer 2008), 209–29.

Flippen, J. Brooks, “Richard Nixon, Russell Train, and the Birth of Modern American Environmental Diplomacy,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 613–38.

Gumm, Angie, “Looking for the Good in Garbage: Bill Compton Builds Wichita a Pyrolysis Plant,” Kansas History, 31 (Autumn 2008), 212–29.

Hamblin, Jacob Darwin, “Gods and Devils in the Details: Marine Pollution, Radioactive Waste, and an Environmental Regime circa 1972,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 539–60.

Lepofsky, Dana, “Deconstructing the McCallum Site,” bc Studies (Vancouver) (no. 158, Summer 2008), 3–31.

Lohry, Jerome L., “Unveilng the Black Rock: A History of Exploration in Nevada’s Remote Northwest Corner,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Spring 2008), 3–24.

Robertson, Thomas, “‘This is the American Earth’: American Empire, the Cold War, and American Environmentalism,” Diplomatic History, 32 (Sept. 2008), 561–84.

Stoll, Mark, “Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea,” Environmental History, 13 (April 2008), 237–74.

Young, McGee, “From Conservation to Environment: The Sierra Club and the Organizational Politics of Change,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (Sept. 2008), 183–203.

 

Courtwright, Julie Renee, “Taming the Red Buffalo: Prairie Fire on the Great Plains” (University of Arkansas, 2007). Order No. DA3292642.

Filipelli, Deborah L., “Before Smokey Bear There Was Woodbridge Metcalf: Rural and Forest Fire Protection in the California Fire Department, 1926–1945” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3294591.

Fountain, Steven Michael, “Big Dogs and Scorched Streams: Horses and Ethnocultural Change in the North American West, 1700–1850” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3303156.

Hubbell, Jeremy Wayne, “Minneapolis: Urban-Environmental Change in the Upper Mississippi, 1824–1924” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3299729.

Long, Mark Howard, “Cultivating a New Order: Reconstructing Florida’s Postbellum Frontier” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3295466.

Matthews, Todd Lee, “The Spatial Distribution of Industrial Production and Toxic Releases in the United States” (Mississippi State University, 2008). Order No. DA3297762.

Moeckli, Jane Kathleen, “‘Pamper Yourself to Protect the Earth’: Nature in Contemporary American Beauty Culture” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301731.

 

Birch, Eugenie L., and Susan M. Wachter, eds., Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xii, 392 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-2037-7.)

Enright, Kelly, Rhinoceros. (London: Reaktion, 2008. 172 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-86189-374-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Keim, Charles J., Aghvook, White Eskimo: Otto Geist and Alaskan Archaeology. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. xx, 313 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-60223-036-1.) Originally published in 1969.

Marling, Karal Ann, Ice: Great Moments in the History of Hard, Cold Water. (St. Paul: Borealis, 2008. 216 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87351-628-0.)

O’Brien, Michael, Exxon and the Crandon Mine Controversy. (Middleton: Badger Books, 2008. vi, 214 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1932542-37-0.)

Smith, Duane A., Rocky Mountain Heartland: Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming in the Twentieth Century. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. xiv, 304 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8165-2456-3. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8165-2759-5.)

Thiem, Jon, with Deborah Dimon, Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxviii, 440 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4537-0.)

 

Dunlap, Thomas R., ed., DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism: Classic Texts. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xvi, 150 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-295-98834-4.)

Jack, Zachary Michael, ed., Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xviii, 261 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8014-4709-9.)

Wilson, Jerry, Waiting for Coyote’s Call: An Eco-memoir from the Missouri River Bluff. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2008. 284 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-9777955-8-1.)

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