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Environment and Natural Resources

 

Elmore, Bartow, “Hydrology and Residential Segregation in the Postwar South: An Environmental History of Atlanta, 1865–1895,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 94 (Spring 2010), 30–61.

Jones, Ryan, “Lisiansky’s Mountain: Changing Views of Nature in Russian America,” Alaska History, 25 (Spring 2010), 1–21.

Kuzma, Scott, “Rural Revolution: A Retrospective on the Kinney Secession,” Minnesota History, 62 (Spring 2010), 18–28. Heavily illustrated.

Low, Matt, “‘The Bear’ in Go Down, Moses and Big Woods: Faulkner’s (Re)visions for a Deeper Ecology,” Mississippi Quarterly, 62 (Winter–Spring 2009), 53–70.

Lyman, Edward Leo, “Development of the Abraham, Millard County, Irrigation Project, 1889–1900,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Spring 2010), 118–33.

Lyndgaard, Kyhl, “Landscapes of Removal and Resistance: Edwin James’s Nineteenth-Century Cross-Cultural Collaborations,” Great Plains Quarterly, 30 (Winter 2010), 37–52.

Niedringhaus, Lee I., “The N Bar N Ranch: A Legend of the Open-Range Cattle Industry, 1885–99,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 60 (Spring 2010), 3–23. Heavily illustrated.

Porter, Charlotte M., “Wetlands and Wildlife: Martin Johnson Heade in Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Winter 2010), 326–47.

Roberts, Strother E., “Pines, Profits, and Popular Politics: Responses to the White Pine Acts in the Colonial Connecticut River Valley,” New England Quarterly, 83 (March 2010), 73–101.

Sarvis, Will, “Land and Home in the American Mind,” Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law, 22 (no. 2, 2008–2009), 107–37.

Speece, Darren, “From Corporatism to Citizen Oversight: The Legal Fight over California Redwoods, 1970–1996,” Environmental History, 14 (Oct. 2009), 705–36.

 

Bachmann, Monika M., “Geography in Virginia: Four Hundred Years of Geography and Geography Education in the Old Dominion” (George Mason University, 2009). Order No. DA3360504.

Borgelt, Bryon, “Flies Only: Early Sport Fishing Conservation on Michigan’s Au Sable River” (University of Toledo, 2009). Order No. DA3361957.

Chester, Robert Neil, “Comstock Creations: An Environmental History of an Industrial Watershed” (University of California, Davis, 2009). Order No. DA3362476.

Henderson, Troy, “Shanty-Boys, Lumberjacks, and Loggers: A Social and Cultural History of the Upper Great Lakes Woodsworkers” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3367109.

Hopkins, Mary H., “A Wild Web: The Tangled History of Attitudes toward Wildlife in a Dynamic New England Culture, 1945–1985” (University of New Hampshire, 2009). Order No. DA3363721.

McTier, Rosemary Scanlon, “‘An Insect View of Its Plain’: Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir” (Duquesne University, 2009). Order No. DA3360736.

Nelson, Paul Thomas, “Utah’s Canyon Country: Hope and Experience Approach an American Desert, 1500–1936” (Southern Methodist University, 2009). Order No. DA3356167.

Nesheim, David A., “An Environmental Biography of Bde Ihanke–Lake Andes: History, Science, and Sovereignty Converge with Tribal State, and Federal Power on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, 1858–1959” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2009). Order No. DA3366667.

Rapp, Karen M., “‘Not the Romantic West’: Site-Specific Art, Globalization, and Contemporary Landscapes” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3364349.

Tomkins-Walsh, Teresa, “‘A Concrete River Had to Be Wrong’: Environmental Action on Houston’s Bayous, 1935–1980” (University of Houston, 2009). Order No. DA3361452.

Wagner, Robert D., Jr., “Moby Dick and the Mythology of Oil” (Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2009). Order No. DA3360851.

Weil, Benjamin S., “Renewable Energy in California: Changing Policies, Politics, and Values, 1975–2005” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009). Order No. DA3367765.

 

Cenkl, Pavel, ed., Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. xiv, 288 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-58729-856-1.)

Langston, Nancy, Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of des. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xviii, 233 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-300-13607-4.)

Lawson, Michael L., Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2009. xxiv, 397 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-9798940-1-5.) Originally published in 1982.

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