In his Faunal Connections between Europe and North America (1957), a landmark study of ecological introductions from Europe to North America that prefigured Alfred Crosby’s Columbian Exchange by three decades, Carl Lindroth sought to explain the distribution of fauna and particularly insects across the North Atlantic. It was the culmination of a multi-year investigation begun in 1949 that had seen

I came late and reluctantly to Appalachian environmental history. That might sound odd since for thirty-six years I taught at Appalachian State University and still live in a town named for Daniel Boone. It was not that I lacked a personal connection to the landscape. Within a half hour of leaving my house, I could be hiking in the backcountry, camping at a remote site, or standing knee-deep in a mountain

One year after the German surrender in World War II, an exhibition about the “Great Patriotic War” opened its doors in the regional museum of Chelyabinsk. The curators presented the visitors with a geological take on the war events: the exhibition employed a geological time frame, which started with the genesis of planet Earth, and displayed a large introductory section on natural resources of the

I came late and reluctantly to Appalachian environmental history. That might sound odd since for thirty-six years I taught at Appalachian State University and still live in a town named for Daniel Boone. It was not that I lacked a personal connection to the landscape. Within a half hour of leaving my house, I could be hiking in the backcountry, camping at a remote site, or standing knee-deep in a mountain

I came late and reluctantly to Appalachian environmental history. That might sound odd since for thirty-six years I taught at Appalachian State University and still live in a town named for Daniel Boone. It was not that I lacked a personal connection to the landscape. Within a half hour of leaving my house, I could be hiking in the backcountry, camping at a remote site, or standing knee-deep in a mountain

I came late and reluctantly to Appalachian environmental history. That might sound odd since for thirty-six years I taught at Appalachian State University and still live in a town named for Daniel Boone. It was not that I lacked a personal connection to the landscape. Within a half hour of leaving my house, I could be hiking in the backcountry, camping at a remote site, or standing knee-deep in a mountain

I came late and reluctantly to Appalachian environmental history. That might sound odd since for thirty-six years I taught at Appalachian State University and still live in a town named for Daniel Boone. It was not that I lacked a personal connection to the landscape. Within a half hour of leaving my house, I could be hiking in the backcountry, camping at a remote site, or standing knee-deep in a mountain

Most recent books about Appalachia speak to its capitalist transformation, whether that series of events is set during the rule of the British Empire or after the Civil War. Appalachia offers a case unlike that of New England or New York City. But, as soon as we make this distinction, we enter the realm of models and ideas. Since organizing work in order to produce capital follows patterns that extend

What if you love your place, but your place, or rather, the fellow inhabitants of your place, object to honest expressions of LGBTQ identity? Perhaps you grew up in a rural area, learned to garden, to savor the quiet, the wooded hillsides, the spring wildflowers, the grazing livestock in the fields, but can only enjoy the companionship of other queer folks by driving an hour or two to the nearest gay

THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY (FHS) maintains an extensive database of published sources related to environmental history. The “New Scholarship” section of this journal includes just a selection of the new information that the FHS library adds each quarter. The library indexes all entries in the database by topic, chronological period, and geographic area. The library staff will gladly provide additional

Appalachia was “a mysterious realm,” Horace Kephart wrote to explain his decision to leave a library job in St. Louis for the wilds of western North Carolina at the start of Our Southern Highlanders (1913), his influential account of the southern mountains. “Had I been going to Teneriffe or Timbuctu, the libraries would have furnished information a-plenty; but about this housetop of eastern America

Esther Cunningham launched my scholarly journey into Appalachian environmental history from her Blue Ridge living room. She spoke and I listened as we sat among family photos and handmade afghans that recorded some of her life’s work, while, through the window, a view over grassy fields to distant wooded ridges hinted at the parts that I aimed to record. Cunningham’s reputation as an environmental-defense

This forum offers insights into the burgeoning subfield of Appalachian environmental history. In the introductory essay, Drew Swanson offers a thumbnail sketch of the subfield’s historiographic development, paying particular attention to its major themes, to areas ripe for further exploration, and to its relationship to the field of Appalachian studies. Shorter response essays by Steven Stoll, Kathryn

The articles in the January 2021 issue examine often neglected bits of the natural world: insects and weeds. Easy to take for granted, the miniature actors in the articles by Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Jennifer Bonnell, and Benjamin Siegel demonstrate how small and unwanted things can very much shape the settings in which human history unfolded. The kans grass discussed by Siegel preoccupied agronomists

How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters. By SteelKarl. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $108.00, paper $27.00.

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, cultivators and administrators in India contended with the ravages of kans grass (Saccharum spontaneum), a deeply rooted wild sugarcane capable of rendering productive land wholly barren. Difficult to eliminate and endemic throughout India, kans disrupted agricultural efforts in north and central India, particularly in the regions of Jhansi, Bundelkhand

No Oeste, a terra e o céu: a expansão da fronteira Agricola no Brasil central. By e SilvaSandro Dutra. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad Editora, 2017. Bibliografia, fotos, mapas, graficos. Bibliography, photos, maps, graphics. 303 pages. paper. Más Allá de la Pampa: agro, territorio y poder en el nordeste argentino 1910–1960. Edited by Noemí M. Girbal-Blacha and Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli. Buenos Aires: Editorial

In 2018, two aircraft from the Miramar-based Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing flew over the Salton Sea, California’s largest inland body of water occupying the desert area of Imperial and Riverside Counties. Midair, the pilots decided to pull a prank. As the Navy Times reported on the incident, not bothering to contain their glee, “high over the Mad Max-ian wasteland

Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism. By HollemanHannah. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 256 pp. Index and notes. Cloth $35.00. Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains. By Douglas Sheflin. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xvi + 406 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $55

The Language of Fruit: Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century. By BellamyLiz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $69.95.

The Greater Gulf: Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Edited by CampbellClaire E, MacDonaldEdward, and PayneBrian. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. x + 372 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, graphs, notes, and index. Paper CDN $34.95.

Transforming Rural Water Governance: The Road from Resource Management to Political Action in Nicaragua. By RomanoSarah T.Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. 232 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, references, and index. Cloth $60.00, e-book $60.00.

From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. By Marina LurtzCasey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xvi + 280 pp. Map, chart, graphs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $65.00.

This article explores the conflicts between people and Atta leafcutter ants over the meaning of anthropogenic deforestation in nineteenth-century Brazil. As human agricultural settlement advanced, ants followed in its wake, harvesting leaves, flowers, fruits, and other plant parts from crops to supply their underground fungus gardens. In so doing, the ants, as semiotic selves, interpreted what humans

Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution. By RothschildRachel Emma. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 336 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $45.00, e-book $45.00.

The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump. By TurnerJames Morton and IsenbergAndrew C. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 270 pp. Illustrations, map, graphs, table, notes, and index. Cloth $27.95.

Pure Adulteration: Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food. By CohenBenjamin R. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019. xv + 315 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $35.00, ebook $10.00.

I came late and reluctantly to Appalachian environmental history. That might sound odd since for thirty-six years I taught at Appalachian State University and still live in a town named for Daniel Boone. It was not that I lacked a personal connection to the landscape. Within a half hour of leaving my house, I could be hiking in the backcountry, camping at a remote site, or standing knee-deep in a mountain

Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Landscape, and Memory in Mexico’s Little Ice Age. By SkopykBradley. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. xv + 313 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $55.00, e-book $55.00.

The Conservation Constitution: The Conservation Movement and Constitutional Change, 1870–1930. By SmithKimberly K. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. viii + 333 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $39.95.

Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates. Edited by LudingtonCharles C and BookerMatthew Morse. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 293 pages. Figures, tables, graph, and index. Cloth $90.00, paper $32.95.

No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution. By HerrmannRachel B.Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. x + 298 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $24.95.

This article examines the debates that surrounded incidents of honeybee poisoning in the southern Great Lakes region in the 1880s and 1890s. Drawing upon the records of beekeepers and allied entomologists from Ontario and neighboring states, it analyzes the history of insecticide use, knowledge development, and risk calculation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Here, beekeepers

Richard Grove, a legend among environmental historians, died on June 25, 2020. He had been incapacitated by an automobile accident since 2006. Grove was best known for Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860 (Cambridge University Press, 1995). He is survived by Vinita Damodaran, an environmental historian at the University of Sussex

A lot has changed since mid-March when we sat down to pen our editorial note for the July issue. At the time, some four hundred thousand people had been infected with COVID-19. As of this writing in early July, that figure has increased almost thirty-fold, to more than eleven million. The ensuing months have provided definitive answers to some of the questions we posed—no, the virus will not attenuate

AbstractDiscussions about the purpose and management of Norway’s first national park evolved along different lines than planning did elsewhere in the world. First proposed in 1956 by local mountain boards wishing to protect wild reindeer, Rondane National Park opened in December 1962 with a significantly altered management emphasis. Prior to 1960, Norway had yet to adopt a national system for the conservation

Reconciling Nature: Literary Representations of the Natural, 1876–1945. By MyersRobert M.. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. xxvi + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $95.00.

The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent. By da CunhaDilip. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. xii + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Cloth $59.95.

The Long Shadows: A Global Environmental History of the Second World War. Edited by LaakkonenSimo, TuckerRichard, and VuorisaloTimo. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2017. 346 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, and index. Paper $35.00, e-book $35.00.

Unsettled Waters: Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West. By PerramondEric P.Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xix + 239 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $34.95, e-book $34.95.

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945. By SpearsEllen Griffith. New York: Routledge, 2019. xiii + 274 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $39.95.

Basque Immigrants and Nevada’s Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880–1954. By SaituaIker. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2019. x + 301 pp. Chart, bibliography, and index. Paper $44.95.

THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY (FHS) maintains an extensive database of published sources related to environmental history. The New Scholarship section of this journal includes just a selection of the new information that the FHS library adds each quarter. The library indexes all entries in the database by topic, chronological period, and geographic area. The library staff will gladly provide additional

Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century. By McCannCarole R.Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xi + 304 pp. Illustrations. Paper $30.00.

Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil. By BlancJacob. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. xviii + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $104.95, paperback $27.95, e-book $27.95.

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment. Edited by KusserowKarl and BraddockAlan C.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 448 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $65.00.

AbstractThis article analyzes the environmental history of the Industrial Revolution by examining the evolution of the usage and management of the waters of the Piave, a river stretching from the eastern Alps to the Venetian Plain. In the preindustrial period, the Piave played a fundamental role in defining the flows of raw materials and energy in the region, representing the main route for transporting

Coffee Is Not Forever: A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust. By McCookStuart. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. xxiv + 281 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $64.00, paper $27.96.

Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmental Activism in Detroit. By CialdellaJoseph Stanhope. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $35.00.

The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health. By ThomsonJennifer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. xiv + 202 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $29.95.

The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics and the Human in the 1970s. By BusbeaLarry D.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. xxvi + 286 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $120.00, paper $30.00.

The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work. By DaggettCara New. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. x + 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $99.95, paper $26.95, e-book $26.95.

The Dance of the Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Environmental Stress, Morality, and Social Response. Edited by KissAndrea and PribylKathleen. London: Routledge, 2020. 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliographies, and index. Cloth £115.00, e-book £36.99.

Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole. By DrySarah. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 332 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. Cloth $30.00, e-book $18.00.

Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects. By PosnettEdward. New York: Viking, 2019. 323 pp. Notes and index. Cloth $27.00.

AbstractThis article continues and extends a conversation between environmental history and the broader environmental humanities, outlining and defining an approach to more-than-human histories. Engaging with more-than-human and multispecies approaches in a range of fields within the broader environmental humanities, we point to a nested set of commitments that shape these research agendas. More-than-human

AbstractAnthropogenic climate change is today transforming Earth’s oceans with alarming speed, imperiling the fate of all of us on land. Preindustrial and overwhelmingly natural climate changes were, in the Holocene, far smaller in scale and speed than those of today. Yet they too reshaped the oceans and thereby powerfully influenced historical societies. This short essay aims to inspire a new wave

Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Edited by KellyMatthew. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. xii + 231 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, and index. Cloth £75.00, e-book £75.00.

Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat. By HisanoAi. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. viii + 327 pp. Illustrations, graphs, notes, and index. Cloth, $39.95.

Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond.SzemanImre and DiamantiJeff, eds. Morgantown: West Virginia Press, 2019. viii + 260 pp. Illustrations, notes, contributors, and index. Cloth $99.99, paper $34.99.