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Volume 13, Number 1: Spring Summer 2008
Special Issue: Environmental Politics

ARTICLES

Divergences on the Left: The Environmentalisms of Rachel Carson and Murray Bookchin
Peter A. McCord

Masculinity, Modernism and the Ambivalence of Nature: Sexual Inversion as Queer Ecology in The Well of Loneliness
Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands

Seeing Like a Protester: Nature, Power, and Environmental Struggles
Marco Armiero

The Environmental Question, Employment, and Development in Italy's Left, 1945-1990
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg and Paolo Pelizzari

PHOTO ESSAYS

Remembering the Struggle for the Environment: Hamilton's Lax Lands/Bayfront Park, 1950s-2008
Nancy B. Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank

The Urban Periphery and the Rural Fringe: West Ham's Hybrid Landscape
Jim Clifford

REVIEW ESSAY

Big Game and the State: The History of the Hunt in Canada
Joanna Dean

BOOK REVIEWS

Henry Pennier, 'Call Me Hank': A Stó:lo Man's Reflections on Logging, Living, and Growing Old, ed. Keith Thor Carlson and Kristina Fagan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,2006).
Coll Thrush

Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
Julie Sze

Paul Kopas, Taking the Air: Ideas and Change in Canada's National Parks (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007).
Bill Waiser

Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,2004).
Brian W. Ogilvie

Lawrence M. Lipin ,Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-1930 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
Sean Kheraj

John Sandlos, Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008) and Tina Loo, States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007).
Jean L. Manore

Jamie Benidickson, The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007).
Bill Luckin

Stephen Pyne, Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008).
Robert Wilson

James C. McCann, Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500-2000 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).
Kirk Arden Hoppe

Andrew Szasz, Shopping Our Way to Safety: How we Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Arn Keeling

William F. Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues & Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Princeton,NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).
Michael Egan

Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret Keck, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).
Henry Veltmeyer

Robert Hunter, The Greenpeace to Amchitka (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004).
Jocelyn Thorpe and L. Anders Sandberg

Brian Luke, Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Manhood (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
Catharine Grant

D. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put a Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).
Katharine Anderson

Jim Harding, Canada's Deadly Secret. (Halifax: Fernwood, 2007).
Thomas Oates and Ella Haley

Joy Parr and Jon van der Veen, Megaprojects, http://megaprojects.fims.uwo.ca/.
Jennifer Bonnell

Alvin Finkel, Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History ( Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006).
Shirley Tillotson

Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
David M. Reimers

Fabio Riojas, From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).
Peniel E. Joseph

Richard Hudelson and Carl Ross, By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluth (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and Joe William Trotter Jr., Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat 1915-1945, Second Edition, (Urbana, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Paul Lawrie

Peter Brock, Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).
Bobbie Oliver

Judy Kutulas, The American Civil Liberties Union and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1930-1960 (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Robert C. Cottrell

David L. Tubbs, Freedom's Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).
Joselyn Morely

Linda Gordon, The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
Lynne Luciano

Frances Lee Bernstein, The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007).
Jane McDermid

Paul Rutherford, A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
Robin Grazley

Elyssa Faison, Managing Women: Disciplining Labour in Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).
Ken C. Kawashima

Robert Service, Comrades!: A History of World Communism (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2007).
William A. Pelz




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