Recent Scholarship
Environment and Natural Resources
Adams, Sean P., “Promotion, Competition, Captivity: The Political Economy of Coal,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 74–95.
Brady, Lisa M., “The Wilderness of War: Nature and Strategy in the American Civil War,” Environmental History, 10 (July 2005), 421–47.
Castaneda, Christopher J., “From Manufactured to Natural Gas in California,” Journal of the West, 44 (Winter 2005), 18–26. Heavily illustrated.
Coates, Peter A., “Garden and Mine, Paradise and Purgatory: Landscapes of Leisure and Labor in California,” California History, 83 (no. 1, 2005), 8–27.
Colten, Craig E., “Cities and Water Pollution: An Historical and Geographic Perspective,” Urban Geography, 26 (July–Aug. 2005), 435–58.
Czarnezki, Jason J., “Revisiting the Tense Relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court, Administrative Procedure, and the National Environmental Policy Act,” Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 25 (no. 1, 2006), 3–28.
Elkind, Sarah S., “Black Gold and the Beach: Offshore Oil, Beaches, and Federal Power in Southern California,” Journal of the West, 44 (Winter 2005), 8–17. Heavily illustrated.
Greenfield, Steven, “A Lake By Mistake,” American Heritage of Invention & Technology, 21 (Winter 2006), 38–49.
Huffman, Thomas R., “‘Enemies of the People’: Asbestos and the Reserve Mining Trail,” Minnesota History, 59 (Fall 2005), 292–306. Heavily illustrated.
Hurley, Andrew, “Aqueducts and Drains: A Comparison of Water Imperialism and Urban Environmental Change in Mexico City and Los Angeles,” Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005), 12–21. Heavily illustrated.
Kato, Tetsuzo, “Tetsukazu no seibu toiu shinwa” (The myth of the untouched west), in Kankyo to keikan no shakaishi (A social history of the environment and scenery), ed. You Tokuhashi, . (Tokyo: Bunka shobo hakubun sha, 2004. isbn 4830109432.) In Japanese.
Klingle, Matthew W., “Fluid Dynamics: Water, Power, and the Reengineering of Seattle’s Duwamish River,” Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005), 22–29. Heavily illustrated.
Miller, Char, “Running Dry: Water and Development in San Antonio,” Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005), 44–51. Heavily illustrated.
Mitman, Gregg, “In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History,” Environmental History, 10 (April 2005), 184–210.
Patton, Thomas, W., “When the Veterans Came to Vermont: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Winooski River Flood Control Project,” Vermont History, 73 (Summer–Fall 2005), 160–89.
Pipkin, John S., “The Moral High Ground in Albany: Rhetorics and Practices of an ‘Olmstedian’ Park, 1855–1875,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (Oct. 2005), 666–87.
Saha, Robin, and Paul Mohai, “Historical Context and Hazardous Waste Facility Siting: Understanding Temporal Patterns in Michigan,” Social Problems, 52 (Nov. 2005), 618–48.
Schulman, Bruce J., “Governing Nature, Nurturing Government: Resource Management and the Development of the American State, 1900–1912,” Journal of Policy History, 17 (no. 4, 2005), 375–403.
Scott, George W., “The Culmination of the Great Columbia Power War: The cva, Governor Arthur B. Langlie, and Eisenhower’s ‘Partnership,’” Journal of the West, 44 (Winter 2005), 27–37. Heavily illustrated.
Shoemaker, Nancy, “Whale Meat in American History,” Environmental History, 10 (April 2005), 269–94.
Sokol, Marienka, “Reclaiming the City: Water and the Urban Landscape in Phoenix and Las Vegas,” Journal of the West, 44 (Summer 2005), 52–61. Heavily illustrated.
Urban, Michael A., “An Uninhabited Waste: Transforming the Grand Prairie in Nineteenth Century Illinois, U.S.A.,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 31 (Oct. 2005), 647–65.
van de Logt, Mark, “‘The Land Is Always With Us’: Removal, Allotment, and Industrial Development and Their Effects on Ponca Tribalism,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Fall 2005), 326–41.
Weiner, Douglas R., “A Death-Defying Attempt to Articulate a Coherent Definition of Environmental History,” Environmental History, 10 (July 2005), 404–20.
Wellock, Thomas, “Atomic Power in the West,” Journal of the West, 44 (Winter 2005), 45–54. Heavily illustrated.
Willis, Lloyd, “Monstrous Ecology: John Steinbeck, Ecology, and American Cultural Politics,” Journal of American Culture, 28 (Dec. 2005), 357–67.
Booker, Matthew Morse, “Real Estate and Refuge: An Environmental History of San Francisco Bay’s Tidal Wetlands, 1846–1972” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3171753.
Carlson, Hans M., “Home Is the Hunter: Subsistence, Reciprocity, and the Negotiation of Cultural Environment among the James Bay Cree” (University of Maine, 2005). Order No. DA3169617.
Clary, Amy, “Textual Terrain: Wilderness in American Literature, Law, and Culture” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2005). Order No. DA3167947.
Corbin, Devin DeWayne, “The Work of Belonging: Agricultural Improvement, Romantic Wilderness, and the Rise of Restorationism in U.S. Environmental Literature” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3167671.
Egan, Michael, “Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival” (Washington State University, 2004). Order No. DA3172345.
Farmer, Jared, “American Land Marks: A History of Place and Displacement” (Stanford University, 2005). Order No. DA3171724.
Jones, Jeffrey Jacob, “The World Was Our Garden: U.S. Plant Introduction, Empire, and Industrial Agri(culture), 1898–1948” (Purdue University, 2004). Order No. DA3166642.
Kaye, Roger W., “The Campaign to Establish a Last Great Wilderness: The Arctic National Wildlife Range” (University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2005). Order No. DA3167010.
McFarland, Morgan J., “The Watery World: The Country of the Illinois, 1699–1778” (University of Cincinnati, 2005). Order No. DA3176757.
Rawson, Michael J., “Nature and the City: Boston and the Construction of the American Metropolis, 1820–1920” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005). Order No. DA3175588.
Tu, Wei, “Environmental Impacts of the Digital Economy: The Case of Austin, Texas, 1990–2008” (Texas A&M University, 2004). Order No. DA3172172.
Anderegg, C. R., The Ash Warriors. (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2005. x, 146 pp. Paper, $21.00, isbn 0-16-050600-X.) Originally published in 2000. Heavily illustrated.
Gould, Rebecca Kneale, At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxx, 350 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-520-24140-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-520-24142-8.)
Mulcahy, Matthew, Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 257 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8018-8223-0.)
Runte, Alfred, Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2006. xx, 195 pp. $29.95, isbn 1-931112-52-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Saikku, Mikko, This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xx, 373 pp. Cloth, $54.95, isbn 0-8203-2534-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8203-2673-9.)
Simo, Melanie L., Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xvi, 271 pp. $39.50, isbn 0-8139-2500-2.)
Larson, George A., ed., “A ccc Recruit Looks Back: Claire Patterson’s Black Hills Experience,” South Dakota History, 35 (Winter 2005), 335–46.
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