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Environment and Natural Resources

Kato, Tetsuzou, “Myua no yume no tsuikyu” (In pursuit of Muir’s vision), Shien (Tokyo), 66 (no. 2, 2006), 35–57. In Japanese.

Murakushi, Nisaburo, “Seiritsu-ki ni okeru amerika kokuritsu koen no rinen to seisaku” (Conflict of interest between tourism and nature conservation in national parks in the United States), Keizai Shirin (Tokyo), 74 (nos. 1–2, 2006), 273–325. In Japanese.

 

Anderson, Jennifer L., “Nature’s Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1720–1830” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3247347.

Chambers, Ian David, “Space: The Final Frontier? Spatial Understandings in the 18th Century American Southeast” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3249737.

Guthrie, William Keith, “Flood Alley: An Environmental History of Flooding in Texas” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3243474.

Hersey, Mark D., “‘My work is that of conservation’: The Environmental Vision of George Washington Carver” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3243460.

MacDonald, Eric A., “The Art which Mends Nature: The Discourse of American Environmental Design in ‘Garden and Forest,’ 1888–1897” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3245608.

 

Akimoto, Eiichi, and Kazuto Oshio, eds., Amerika kenkyu no ekkyo: Yutakasa to kankyo (Transboundary American Studies, vol. 3: Affluence and environment). (Kyoto: Minerva, 2006. ¥3500, isbn 4623047210.) In Japanese.

Dunkak, Harry M., Knowledge, Truth, and Service: The New York Botanical Garden, 1891 to 1980. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. xii, 122 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-7618-3839-5. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-7618-3840-1.)

Magee, Judith, The Art and Science of William Bartram. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. xii, 264 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-271-02914-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Maher, Neil M., Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 316 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-19-530601-9.)

Rhea, Gordon C., In the Footsteps of Grant and Lee: The Wilderness through Cold Harbor. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. x, 134 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8071-3269-2.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Rabinowitz, Alan, Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed. (Washington: Island, 2008. xiv, 230 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-59726-129-6.)

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