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Fighting With a Weed: Water Hyacinth and the State in Colonial Bengal, c. 1910-1947. Iftekhar Iqbal
Population, Land Use and Environmental Impacts in Shucheng County, Anhui Province, China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Yan Zuozhi, Gu Hongyi, Dai Yangben, Wu Xuande, John A Dearing, Zhang Weiguo and Yu Lizhong
Contestation over Resources: The Farmer-Miner Dispute in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1903-1939.Muchaparara Musemwa
Book Reviews
Diana K. Davis, Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (Muchaparara Musemwa)
Neena Ambre Rao, Forest Ecology in India: Colonial Maharashtra, 1850Ð1950 (Laxman D. Satya)
Paige West, Conservation is our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (Libby Robin)
John Elder, Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh (Ross Balzaretti)
Gregory S. Aldrete, Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (Susanne Dobrovolny)
Society Pages
'Ruined and Lost': Spanish Destruction of the Pearl Coast in the Early Sixteenth Century.Michael Perri
Production Cycles and Decline in Traditional Iron Smelting in the Maidan, Southern India, c. 1750-1950: An Environmental History Perspective. Sashi Sivramkrishna
Sludge on Tap: Queensland's First Water Pollution Legislation, 1944-1985.Jan Wegner
An Imperial, National and State Debate: The Rise and Near Fall of the Australian Forestry School, 1927-1945.Brett Bennett
Book Reviews
I.G. Simmons, Global Environmental History 10,000 BC to AD 2000 (Libby Robin)
William Beinart and Lotte Hughes, Environment and Empire (Tim Cooper)
Gunnel Cederloef, Landscapes and the Law: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories and Contests over Nature (Heather Goodall)
Roberta Cevasco, Memoria verde. Nuovi spazi per la geografia (Ross Balzaretti)
Marnie Leybourne and Andrea Gaynor, eds., Water. Histories, Cultures, Ecologies (Petra J.E.M. van Dam)
Dennis Cosgrove, Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World (Peter Collier)
Society Pages
'A Network of Trust': Measuring and Monitoring Air Pollution in British Cities, 1912-1960.Stephen Mosley
Campaigning for Street Trees, Sydney Botanic Gardens, 1890s-1920s. Jodi Frawley
The Paradox of Discourse Concerning Deforestation in New Zealand: A Historical Survey.Catherine Knight
The Fall and Fall in the Legal Status of Mustelids in New Zealand.Philippa Wells
Breaking New Ground? Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of 'Empire Forestry' in the Philippines, 1900-1905.Greg Bankoff
Book Reviews
Divyabhanusinh (ed.), The Lions of India (Jane Carruthers)
R. Cole Harris, The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation (Suzanne Zeller)
Helen M. Rozwadowski and David K. van Keuren, eds., The Machine in Neptune's Garden (Kate B. Showers)
Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart, A History of World Agriculture From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis (J. Chapman)
Roger Fouquet, Heat, Power and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services (Horace Herring)
Society Pages
Landscape and Ambience on the Urban Fringe: From Agricultural to Imagined Countryside.Joseph Goddard
'When The Well's Dry': Water and the Promise of Sustainability in the American Southwest. David Jenkins
Brazilian Federal Conservation Units: A Historical Overview of their Creation and of their Current Status.José Augusto Drummond, José Luiz de Andrade Franco and Alessandra Bortoni Ninis
Agrarian Change, Cattle Ranching and Deforestation: Assessing their Linkages in Southern Pará.Pablo Pacheco
Goats, Marginality and the 'Dangerous Other'.David Siddle
Book Reviews
Brian Short, Charles Watkins and John Martin, eds., The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War (DAVID HARVEY)
David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (LAWRENCE NIEWOJT)
T. C. Smout, Exploring Environmental History. Selected Essays (IAN SIMMONS)
Society Pages
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