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Apr 01, 2008; Cioc, Mark ... THE FIRST TWO ESSAYS in this issue-Mark Stoll's "Milton in Yosemite" and Alon Tal's "Enduring Technological Optimism"-place romanticism, religion, and nationalism in the foreground. Mark Stoll explores the influence of John Milton's poem Paradise Lost on John Muir and others, an influence that ...

enduring technological optimism: ZIONISM'S ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ISRAEL'S ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

Apr 01, 2008; Tal, Alon ... ABSTRACT When Zionism emerged in Europe as the Jewish people's national movement at the advent of the twentieth century, its political leaders and ideological visionaries were concerned about defining an appropriate relationship between Jewish settlement in Palestine and the "Land of ...

milton in yosemite: PARADISE LOST AND THE NATIONAL PARKS IDEA

Apr 01, 2008; Stoll, Mark ... ABSTRACT "Milton in Yosemite" investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden. Reformed Protestantism developed a peculiarly strong nostalgia for Eden that John Milton gave a ...

the yellow croaker war: FISHERY DISPUTES BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN, 1925-1935

Apr 01, 2008; Muscolino, Micah ... ABSTRACT Beginning in the 1920s, the convergence of ecological transformations that originated in China and Japan gave rise to protracted disputes over yellow croaker fishing grounds off of China's southeast coast. These conflicts highlight the importance of transnational perspectives in ...

homes on the range: COOPERATIVE CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON CALIFORNIA'S PRIVATELY OWNED HARDWOOD RANGELANDS

Apr 01, 2008; Alagona, Peter S ... ABSTRACT This essay describes the conservation history of California's hardwood rangelands: a vast region of oak woodland, grassland, and chaparral vegetation that occurs almost entirely on private property. Conservation has played as important a role in the history of California's ...

LOOK AWAY

Apr 01, 2008; Fiege, Mark ... WHEN I FIRST SCRUTINIZED THIS $1 certificate of deposit (pp. 352-353), it brought to mind the famous song of the white South, the informal Confederate national anthem, that voices a deep yearning for a lost world of warmth and happiness: "I wish I was in the land of cotton / Old times there / ...

RACIST REDEMPTION

Apr 01, 2008; Mihm, Stephen ... MONEY MAY BE A MEANS of exchange and a store of value, but it can also function as propaganda. The average economist might dismiss this as nonsense, but looking at this note (pp. 352-353), it's obvious that this piece of paper is doing far more "work" than merely facilitating commerce in South ...

Mary Thornbush On Postcards Used to Track Environmental History

Apr 01, 2008; Thornbush, Mary ... POSTCARDS PRESENT AN opportunity to trace environmental change of various types of plants in diverse landscapes through time. As an approach of repeat photography (rephotography), postcards can portray places (from certain perspectives) throughout their recorded history. Although the record is ...

There Will Be Blood

Apr 01, 2008; Black, Brian ... There Will Be Blood. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Paramount, 2007. DVD. 158 min. $34.99. It is a surreal time for petroleum, as crude oil prices leave $100-per-barrel prices behind. Although a wondrous piece of visual story-telling, Paul Thomas Anderson's acclaimed new film There ...

Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes

Apr 01, 2008; Melendy, Cynthia ... Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes. By Gregg Mitman. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. xv + 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $30.00. In this groundbreaking work, Mitman explores how the ecology of disease is a force of human and ...

The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938

Apr 01, 2008; Black, Brian ... The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938. By Myrna I. Santiago. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00. In The ...

Por abajo del agua: sobreexplotación y agotamiento del acuífero de la Costa de Hermosillo, 1945-2005

Apr 01, 2008; Evans, Sterling ... Por abajo del agua: sobreexplotación y agotamiento del acuífero de la Costa de Hermosillo, 1945-2005 [Under the Water: Overexploitation and Depletion of the Costa de Hermosillo Aquifer, 1945-2005]. By José Luis Moreno Vázquez. Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 2006. 507 pp ....

Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society

Apr 01, 2008; Drummond, José ... Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. By Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xviii + 283 pp. Bibliography and index. Paper $23.95. Kathryn Hochstetler (University of New Mexico) and Margaret E. Keck (Johns Hopkins), ...

Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy

Apr 01, 2008; Jackson, Donald C ... Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. By Karl Boyd Brooks. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. Weyerhauser Environmental Books Series, xxvii + 290 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $35.00. After World War II, ...

Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks

Apr 01, 2008; Stine, Jeffrey K ... Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks. By Hal K. Rothman. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. via + 281 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95. Stewards of parks and forests have always been concerned about wildfires and, ...

National Park, City Playground: Mount Rainier in the Twentieth Century

Apr 01, 2008; Young, Terence ... National Park, City Playground: Mount Rainier in the Twentieth Century. By Theodore Catton. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006 ix + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $18.95. National park histories generally follow one of two paths ....

Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It

Apr 01, 2008; Melendy, Cynthia ... Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It. By Kimberly A. Jarvis. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press and Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007. Revisiting New England: The Regionalism Series, xviii + 214 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper ...

The Forests of Michigan/Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship

Apr 01, 2008; Mladenoff, David ... The Forests of Michigan. By Donald I. Dickmann and Larry A. Leefers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.304 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, and bibliography. Cloth $55.00, paper $29.95; Michigan's State Forests: A Century of Stewardship. By William B. Botti and Michael D. Moore. East ...

Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon

Apr 01, 2008; Drogan, Mara ... Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. By John Wills. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xi + 244 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $34.95. December 2, 2007, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Shippingport reactor and ...

This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal

Apr 01, 2008; Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela ... This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. By Sarah T. Phillips. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 289 pp. Illustration, notes, tables, and index. Paper $23.99. In This Land, This ...