Recently added articles from Environmental History:
from the editor
Jan 01, 2009; ... EVERY MONTH or so I receive a submission that grabs my attention even though it does not fit easily into the pattern of essays that the journal normally publishes. Typically I direct the author to a more appropriate journal. Finis Dunaway's "Seeing Global Warming" is one of the rare exceptions ....
seeing GLOBAL WARMING: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE FATE OF THE PLANET
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Contemporary environmental artists are increasingly turning their attention to climate change. Focusing on an exhibition curated by the renowned art critic Lucy R. Lippard, this essay places selected works in dialogue with mass media framings of environmental problems to reveal ...
'salvaging the man power of AMERICA': CONSERVATION, MANHOOD, AND DISABLED VETERANS DURING WORLD WAR I
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Progressive-era conservationists envisioned the physical energy exerted by male bodies as a natural resource. As a result, foresters and rehabilitationists attempted to simultaneously conserve trees and manpower by using wooden prosthetics and vocational training in forestry to ...
science and the national parks: a TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE INTERWAR YEARS
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT The years between the two World Wars were a vital period in the global diffusion and the transnational modification and multiplication of the national park idea. It was during these decades that the American national park system took its distinct shape and the first national ...
wilderness and the BRAZILIAN MIND (II): THE FIRST BRAZILIAN CONFERENCE ON NATURE PROTECTION (RIO DE JANEIRO, 1934)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT This article examines the First Brazilian Conference on Nature Protection-held in Rio de Janeiro, in 1934, a founding event of the Brazilian environmental movement-in terms of science, policy, and activism. It was called by a small group of natural scientists and associates, ...
from wasteland to wetland? NATURE AND NATION IN CHINA'S TIBET
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT The environmental history of Lhasa's Lhalu wetland reveals problems with competing ecological nationalist narratives of the Chinese state and Tibetan exiles. Both deny Tibetans the possibility of being historical agents vis-à-vis nature. The article traces a series of ...
Kevin Armitage On Gene Stratton Porter's Conservation Aesthetic
Jan 01, 2009; ... CAN A SIMPLE PICTURE of birds embody a complex philosophy of conservation? Consider the photo of a pair of cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) that the photographer and conservationist Gene Stratton Porter (August 17, 1863- December 6, 1924) labeled "entreaty." The picture puts the viewer in close ...
GRAPHICS EDITOR'S NOTE
Jan 01, 2009; ... LAST SPRING, for our April 2008 Gallery, we asked two historians to interpret the same image of a nineteenth-century bank note from South Carolina. In the issue's Gallery we undertake a variant on that experiment. Rather than having a pair of scholars write dueling essays on the same image, we ...
Kimberly Little On Progressive-era Photography
Jan 01, 2009; ... AN OLD REAR TENEMENT, clearly overcrowded, with laundry hanging from the porch: the scene could be straight from Jacob Riis's seminal 1890 work, How the Other Half Lives, perhaps another angle of Riis's "Old Rear-Tenement in Roosevelt Street. "Riis was not the photographer, however, and it is in ...
interview
Jan 01, 2009; ... susan flader Susan Flader, professor emerita of western and American environmental history at the University of Missouri, has published seminal works on Aldo Leopold's life and thought, on forest history, and the history of parks. In this wide-ranging interview, she discusses the origins ...
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S NOTE
Jan 01, 2009; ... The production of reviews takes the efforts of dozens of people. Many thanks to the reviewers who give of their time, the publishers who send books, and those at the ...
Umweltgeschichte. Eine Einführung
Jan 01, 2009; ... Umweltgeschichte. Eine Einführung. By Verena Winiwarter and Martin Knoll. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2007. 368 pp. Illustrations, references, bibliographies, and index. Cloth 17.90 euros. Were this book in English, North American graduate students would study it first and review ...
The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America. By H. Bruce Franklin. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007. 265 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, notes, and index. Cloth $25.00. The lowly menhaden, cousin to the herring, is an unloved fish. It is ugly, bony, and oily. But it was ...
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
Jan 01, 2009; ... Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada. By Stephen J. Pyne. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2008. xxix + 549 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $34.95. Ever since the publication of fire in America (Princeton, 1982; Washington, ...
Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement
Jan 01, 2009; ... Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. By Neu M. Mäher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 316 pp. Notes, index, photos, maps, tables, and political cartoons. Cloth $35.00 In Nature's New Deal Neil M. Mäher brings us ...
Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana
Jan 01, 2009; ... Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana. By Michael K. Steinberg. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xiii + 173 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. Cloth $24.95. Michael Steinberg could well have been addressing his first ...
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina
Jan 01, 2009; ... City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina. By Jenni Bergal, Sara Shipley Hiles, Frank Koughan, John McQuaid, Jim Morris, Katy Reckdahl, and Curtís Wilkie. A Center for Public Integrity Investigation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. xiii + 168 pp. Illustrations, ...
Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle against the WTI Incinerator
Jan 01, 2009; ... Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle against the WTI Incinerator. By Thomas Shevory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. x + 280 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. Paper $19.95. In 1993 the Waste Technologies Incorporated hazardous waste incinerator began operations on a patch ...
Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are
Jan 01, 2009; ... Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are. By Paul Robbins. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. xxi + 186 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, and index. Paper $23.95. Some homeowners feel like a slave to their lawn. Paul Robbins's book assures them ...
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. Edited by Roger S. Gottlieb. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 662 pp. Bibliography and index. Cloth $65.00. In this contribution to the Oxford Handbook series, Roger Gottlieb, professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic ...