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Environment and Natural Resources

Aiello, Thomas, “The Ouachita River Flood in Monroe, Louisiana, 1932,” Louisiana History, 48 (Winter 2007), 25–54.

Deloria, Philip J., “Drain the Lake! Tear Down the Butte! Build Paradise! The Environmental Dimensions of Social and Economic Power in Boulder, Colorado, and Benzie, Michigan,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 65–88.

Dörries, Matthias, “In the Public Eye: Volcanology and Climate Change Studies in the 20th Century,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 37 (no. 1, 2006), 87–125.

Downey, Liam, “Environmental Racial Inequality in Detroit,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 771–96.

Gumprecht, Blake, “The Campus as a Public Space in the American College Town,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Jan. 2007), 72–103.

Hoffman, Abraham, and Teena Stern, “The Zanjas and the Pioneer Water Systems for Los Angeles,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 1–22.

Ingram, David, “‘Go to the forest and move’: 1960’s American Rock Music as Electronic Pastoral,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 20, Winter 2006–2007), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.

McBeath, Jerry, and Carl Edward Shepro, “The Effects of Environmental Change on an Arctic Native Community: Evaluation Using Local Cultural Perceptions,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 44–65.

Mittlefehldt, Sarah, “The Origins of Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail: Ray Zillmer’s Path to Protect the Past,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 90 (Spring 2007), 2–14. Heavily illustrated.

Poole, Leslie Kemp, “The Women of the Early Florida Audubon Society: Agents of History in the Fight to Save State Birds,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Winter 2007), 297–323.

Saikku, Mikko, “Faulkner and the ‘Doomed Wilderness’ of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta,” Mississippi Quarterly, 58 (Summer–Fall 2005), 529–57.

 

Andrei, Mary Anne, “Nature’s Mirror: How the Taxidermists of Ward’s Natural Science Establishment Transformed Wildlife Display in American Natural History Museums and Fought to Save Endangered Species” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3219971.

Bryant, William Harold, “Whole System, Whole Earth: The Convergence of Technology and Ecology in Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225584.

Campbell, Robert Wellman, “A Landscape History of the Black Hills” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222175.

Kolb, Carolyn Goldsby, “At the Confluence of Science and Power: Water Struggles of New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century” (University of New Orleans, 2006). Order No. DA3226956.

Marafiote, Tracy, “Gender, Race, and Nature: A Cultural History of the Wilderness Society and the Wilderness Act of 1964” (University of Utah, 2006). Order No. DA3226988.

Payne, Brian Joseph, “Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818–1910” (University of Maine, 2006). Order No. DA3220697.

Poe, Cynthia R., “Reconstructing the Levees: The Politics of Flooding in Nineteenth Century Louisiana” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222881.

Schulte, Terrianne K., “Grassroots at the Water’s Edge: The League of Women Voters and the Struggle to Save Lake Erie, 1956–1970” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3226676.

Wintory, Blake J., “Environmental and Social Change in Lee County, Arkansas, and the St. Francis River Basin, 1865–1905” (University of Arkansas, 2005). Order No. DA3223283.

 

Harkin, Michael E., and David Rich Lewis, eds., Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxxvi, 367 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-7361-0.)

Layman, William D., ed., River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. 168 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-774-81303-7.)

Murchison, Kenneth M., The Snail Darter Case: tva versus the Endangered Species Act. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 234 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1504-9. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1505-6.)

Sternberg, Mary Ann, Winding through Time: The Forgotten History and Present-Day Peril of Bayou Manchac. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiv, 158 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3253-1.)

Wellock, Thomas R., Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements, 1870–2000. (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2007. xii, 308 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-88295-254-3.)

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