Recent Scholarship
Environment and Natural Resources
Blackford, Mansel G., “Fishers, Fishing, and Overfishing: American Experiences in Global Perspective, 1976–2006,” Business History Review, 83 (Summer 2009), 239–66.
Compton, Todd M., “The Big Washout: The 1862 Flood in Santa Clara,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Spring 2009), 108–25.
Connor, Sara Witter, “Wisconsin’s Flying Trees: The Plywood Industry’s Contribution to World War II,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Spring 2009), 16–27. Heavily illustrated.
Davis, Jack E., “Sharp Prose for Green: John D. MacDonald and the First Ecological Novel,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Spring 2009), 484–508.
Grunwald, Michael, “Swamped: Harry Truman, South Florida, and the Changing Political Geography of American Conservation,” in The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, 75–88. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-93-2.)
Harvey, Mark W., “Taking the Postwar Seriously: The Environmental Significance of the Truman Years in Modern United States History,” in The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, 3–19. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-93-2.)
Knipmeyer, James H., “Did Prospectors See Rainbow Bridge before 1909?,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Spring 2009), 166–89.
Lansing, Micheal J., “‘Salvaging the Man Power of America’: Conservation, Manhood, and Disabled Veterans during World War I,” Environmental History, 14 (Jan. 2009), 32–57.
Leathem, Karen Trahan, “Mary Land: ‘When I Was Big Enough to Tote a Gun, I Did,’” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 270–85. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.)
Milazzo, Paul, “From Truman to Eisenhower: Rethinking Postwar Environmental ‘Consensus,’” in The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, 20–31. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-93-2.)
Morris, Christopher, “A More Southern Environmental History,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 581–98.
Pinkerton, Gary, “True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake,” East Texas Historical Journal, 48 (no. 2, 2009), 38–47.
Robertson, Thomas, “Conservation after World War II: The Truman Administration, Foreign Aid, and the ‘Greatest Good,’” in The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman, ed. Karl Boyd Brooks, 32–47. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-93-2.)
Spegel, Daniel D., “The Missouri National Recreational River: An Unlikely Alliance of Landowners and Conservationists,” Nebraska History, 90 (no. 1, 2009), 22–41. Heavily illustrated.
Sylvester, Kenneth, and Geoff Cunfer, “An Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslands,” Agricultural History, 83 (Spring 2009), 352–83.
Damico, Denise Holladay, “‘El Agua Es la Vida’ (Water Is Life): Water Conflict and Conquest in Nineteenth Century New Mexico” (Brandeis University, 2008). Order No. DA3319825.
Derby, Paul Edward, “Indian Trails, Military Roads, and Waterwheels: Cultural and Ecological Transformations at Glen Lake, New York” (Syracuse University, 2008). Order No. DA3323048.
Edgington, Ryan H., “Lines in the Sand: An Environmental History of Cold War New Mexico” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3319993.
Gills, Bradley J., “The Anishnabeg and the Landscape of Assimilation in Michigan, 1854–1934” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3327246.
Gioielli, Robert R., “Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: Urban Environmentalism in Postwar America” (University of Cincinnati, 2008). Order No. DA3323850.
Mudgett, Jill, “The Hills of Home: Environmental Identity in the Rural North, 1815–1860” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3325253.
Nigro, Augustine, “Landscaping the Lehigh: The Creation of a Middle Industrial Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania” (West Virginia University, 2002). Order No. DA3322873.
Salzmann, Joshua A. T., “Safe Harbor: Chicago’s Waterfront and the Political Economy of the Built Environment, 1847–1918” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3327438.
Shaman, Cory, “Contemplating the Great Waste: Representations of Environmental Disaster and Recovery in the American Southwest” (University of Mississippi, 2007). Order No. DA3329541.
Yao, Qingjiang, “Exploring the Social Dynamics in the U.S. Democracy: Presidential and Public Opinions about, and Media Coverage of, Environmental Issues” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3332304.
Brooks, Karl Boyd, ed., The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xxxvi, 145 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-931112-93-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Cevasco, George A., and Richard P. Harmond, eds., Modern American Environmentalists: A Biographical Encyclopedia. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xviii, 557 pp. $110.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9152-6.)
Colten, Craig E., Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. x, 195 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-60473-238-2.)
Hays, Samuel P., The American People and the National Forests: The First Century of the U.S. Forest Service. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. xviii, 198 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8229-4369-3. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8229-6020-1.)
Maffi, Mario, Mississippi: Il grande fiume. Un viaggio alle radici dell’America (Mississippi: The big river; A journey to the roots of America). (Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2009. 560 pp. €14.00, isbn 978-8-856-50083-7.) New edition. In Italian.
Manheim, Frank T., The Conflict over Environmental Regulation in the United States: Origins, Outcomes, and Comparisons with the eu and Other Regions. (Brooklyn: Springer, 2009. xviii, 317 pp. $59.95, isbn 978-0-387-75876-3.)
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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