Contents for Vol. 14, No. 3 (July 2009)

Articles:

William Beinart and Katie McKeown. “Wildlife Media and Representations of Africa, 1950s to the 1970s.” 429-452.

Emily Wakild. “Border Chasm: International Boundary Parks and Mexican Conservation, 1935-1945.” 453-475.

Diana L. DiStephano, “Disasters, Railway Workers, and the Law in Avlanche Country, 1888-1910.” 476-501.

Amy M. Hay. “A New Earthly Vision: Religious Community Activism in the Love Canal Chemical Disaster.” 502-526.

Daniel deB. Richter. “The Accrual of Land Use History in Utah’s Forest Carbon Cycle.” 527-542.

Paul S. Sutter. “When Environmental Traditions Collide: Ramachandra Guha’s The Unquiet Woods and U.S. Environmental History.” 543-550.

Gallery:

Brian Black. “On the Iconography of Crude.” 551-558.

Interview:

Mark Cioc and Char Miller. “Alfred Crosby.” 559-568.

Book Reviews:

Ground Work: Conservation in American Culture. By Char Miller. Durham, NC: Forest History Society. 182 pp. Notes and index. Cloth $19.95. Reviewed by Aaron Shapiro.

Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950. By Sterling Evans. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2007. xxiv + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $42.00. Reviewed by Ken Sylvester.

American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land. By Peter Coates. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2006. 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $39.95. Reviewed by Bruce Shelvey.

Cheatgrass: Fire and Forage on the Range. By James A. Young and Charlie D. Clements. Reno: University of Nevada Press. 2009. xv + 348 pp. Illustrations, notes, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $44.95. Reviewed by Daniel Simberloff.

Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism. Elizabeth D. Blum. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xiii + 194 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Barry Ross Muchnick.

Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition. By Diane E.
Boyer and Robert H. Webb. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. xiv + 289
pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, and index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Donald C. Jackson.

Managing Canada’s Fisheries: From Early Days to the Year 2000. By Joseph Gough. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. 521 pp. Maps, tables, graphs, bibliography, and index. Cloth $55.00. Reviewed by Joseph E. Taylor III.

An Environmental History of North Sea Ling and Cod Fisheries, 1840–1914. By Rene Taudal Poulsen. Esbjerg, Denmark: Fiskeri-og Sofartsmuseets Forlag, 2007. 306 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, and bibliography. Paper. 100 Danish kroner. Reviewed by Vera Schwach.

Geology of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and Potomac River Corridor, District of Columbia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. By Scott Southworth, David K. Brezinski, Randall C. Orndorff, John E. Repetski, and Danielle M. Denenny. Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Service, 2008. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1691. x + 144 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, and bibliography. Paper. Reviewed by Roger Hamilton.

The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870: A Geohistorical Approach. By Faruk Tabak. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xvi + 432 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $60.00. Reviewed by Edmund Burke III.

Climate Change: Environment and History of the Near East. By Arie H. Issar and Mattanyah Zohar. 2nd ed. New York: Springer, 2007. xxxi + 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, and index. Cloth $169.00. Reviewed by Dan Tamir.

Environmental History of the Rhine-Meuse Delta: An Ecological Story on Evolving Human-Environmental Relations Coping with Climate Change and Sea Level Rise. By Piet H. Nienhuis. New York: Springer, 2008. xviii + 640 pp. Index, maps, and illustrations. Cloth $239.00. Reviewed by J. R. McNeill.

America’s Nuclear Wastelands: Politics, Accountability and Cleanup. By Max S. Power. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press, 2008. xvi + 176 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $19.95. Reviewed by Paul Josephson.

Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South. By Shepard Krech III. Environmental History and the American South series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi. + 246 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $44.95. Reviewed by Thomas R. Dunlap.

 The World Beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. Edited by Christof Mauch and Thomas Zeller. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xv + 283 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Paper $22.95. Reviewed by Tait Keller.

The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin’s Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife. Edited Donald M. Waller and Thomas P. Rooney. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 507 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, glossary, appendix, and index. Cloth $40.00. Reviewed by James Feldman.

Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us. By Sing C. Chew. New York: AltaMira Press, 2008. xii + 167. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $70.00, paper $29.95. Reviewed by Hugh Gorman.

Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse. Edited by Paula Young Lee. Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies series. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2008. x + 308 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, and index. Cloth $50.00. Reviewed by Laura B. Sayre.

 Economies and the Transformation of Landscape. Edited by Lisa Cliggett and Christopher A. Pool. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, 2008. xi + 310 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, references, and index. Paper $29.95. Reviewed by Matthew Hamilton.