Kathie Durbin. Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999. 328 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-87071-466-5.
Reviewed by Adam M. Sowards (Department of History, Arizona State University) Published on H-Environment (May, 2000)
Tongass: An Instructive Tale
Robert Boyd. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians 1774-1874. Vancouver and Toronto: University of Washington Press, 1999. xv + 403 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-97837-6; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7748-0755-5.
Char Miller, ed. American Forests, Nature, Culture, and Politics. Development of Western Resources. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. x + 289 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-0849-2; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-0848-5.
Reviewed by Jay Brigham (Morgan, Angel and Associates, Washington, DC) Published on H-Environment (April, 2000)
William deBuys. Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xiii + 307 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8263-2126-8.
Reviewed by Christian McMillen (Department of History, Yale University) Published on H-Environment (April, 2000)
Land of Unintended Consequences
Mark Neumann. On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon. Minneapolis and London, England: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. xi + 373 pp. $22.46 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-2784-4.
Reviewed by Angela Blake (Department of History, American University, Washington, D.C) Published on H-Environment (April, 2000)
Richard H. Grove Sangwan, Vinita Damodaran, eds. Satpal. Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xx + 1036 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-563896-7.
Reviewed by John R. McNeill (Department of History, Georgetown University) Published on H-Environment (April, 2000)
Peter J. Hill, Roger E. Meiners, eds. Who Owns the Environment? Lanham, Md. and Oxford, England: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998. xiv + 353 pp. $41.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8476-9082-4; $104.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8476-9081-7.
Reviewed by Leigh Raymond (Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley) Published on H-Environment (March, 2000)
John D. Wirth. Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. xx + 264 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-0984-0.
Reviewed by Rachel D. Shaw (Department of History, University of California, San Diego) Published on H-Environment (March, 2000)
A Tale of Two Smelters
Nigel J. H. Smith. The Amazon River Forest--A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 208 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-512683-9.
Reviewed by Jose Augusto Drummond (Coordinator, Environmental Monitoring and Evaluation Project, World Bank Pilot Program for the Protection of Tropical Rain Forests (BrasÃÂlia, Brazil)) Published on H-Environment (January, 2000)
Terence Kehoe. Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: From Cooperation to Confrontation. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. 250 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87580-225-1.
Reviewed by Stephen Bocking (Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent University) Published on H-Environment (November, 1999)
Dirty Lakes, Shattered Consensus
Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. 480 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-393-31755-8; $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0.Jared M. Diamond. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. 480 pp.
Lisa M. Benton. The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. Xvii + 277 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-55553-335-9.
Reviewed by Michael Faubion (Department of History and Philosophy, University of Texas-Pan American) Published on H-Environment (August, 1999)
The Presidio's Arrival as a National Park
Randy Malamud. Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity. New York: New York University Press, 1998. xii + 320 pp. $23.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8147-5603-4; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-5602-7.
Reviewed by Dale D. Goble (College of Law, University of Idaho) Published on H-Environment (July, 1999)
People at Zoos
Francis N. Lovett. National Parks: Rights and the Common Good. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998. xvi + 137 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8476-8978-1; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8476-8977-4.
Reviewed by Laura A. Watt (Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California at Berkeley) Published on H-Environment (June, 1999)
Hal K. Rothman. Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xi + 434. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-0910-9.
Reviewed by Paul S. Sutter (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Virginia) Published on H-Environment (June, 1999)
Whose West Is This Anyway?
