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...Jackie Gonzales Cape Cod: An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem . By John T. Cumbler . Boston : University of Massachusetts Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-62534-109-9. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews continue...

...Lincoln Bramwell Federal Ecosystem Management: Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife . By James R. Skillen . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas , 2015 . 360 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-7006-2127-9 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Summer...

...Natalia Gándara [email protected] The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem . By Kristin A. Wintersteen . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . 246 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780520379633 . Copyright © 2022...

...Christopher McGrory Klyza Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England . Diana Muir . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 134 / Agricultural History dom and weather science, Jankovic has produced a work of lasting historiographic significance...

...Nancy Langston Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems . Emilio F. Moran and Elinor Ostrom . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews the district officer,both ofwhom were British.Within modern Malaysia...

...Robert W. Wilcox Abstract Accompanying the expansion of modern beef production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were technologies and methods that proponents assumed were applicable to all ecosystems. Successes in Europe, the United States, and Argentina convinced ranchers, investors...

... organization, culminating in a centralized bureaucratic empire. Natural ecosystems were replaced with artificial ones, which were amenable to the extraction of energy by humans in general and state rulers in particular. The book's dual focus is on agriculture and the state. The opening chapter provides...

...? ernment environmental policy in the 1990s, a decade when the Forest Service moved away from its traditional role of providing sustainable forest products to the timber industry, to a new responsibility to manage ecosystems and safe- guard biological diversity. Ward's journal is loaded with insights...

... the resiliency of ecosystems in bomb tests. Doomsday planning, Martin suggests, gave ecologists the idea of a threshold of damage beyond which an ecosystem cannot recover. Ecologists began to differentiate an ecosystem's structure from the functions of its parts, calculating whether some species could act...

... of legislators to establish laws to manage risks to humans and ecosystems. However, the laws governing pesticides and pest management are complex, so a new source for the law and ecology of pesticides is particularly welcome. Mary Jane Angelo s book is a meticulous analysis of pesticides and environmental law...

... Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas provides a ground-level tour of the valley s ecosystem. In doing so, the atlas focuses on how today s observable landscape can reveal its past ecology and suggest potential alternatives. Historians will appreciate this author s (and his team s) skillful, even artful...

... of the American and the Filipino tropics in the construction of our modern and interconnected world. However, recent perspectives on these regions still lack, for the most part, a true global synthesis of the tropics as a biological entity and social construction that includes African and Asian ecosystems...

... use of pesticides and the efforts of legislators to establish laws to manage risks to humans and ecosystems. However, the laws governing pesticides and pest management are complex, so a new source for the law and ecology of pesticides is particularly welcome. Mary Jane Angelo s book is a meticulous...

.... Morgan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. 304 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8093-2988-5. Environmental historians including Richard White,William Cronon, and others have studied the ways in which Native Americans and European North Americans shaped ecosystems and developed...

... the last four decades by Stoddard s apprentice Leon Neel, the Stoddard-Neel approach to managing southeastern longleaf forest ecosystems attracts a wide diversity of detractors. As an art, not a science, of environmental manipulation that attempts to suspend forests in a sustainable, balanced, and natural...

... responsibility to manage ecosystems and safe- guard biological diversity. Ward's journal is loaded with insights into the workings of the American political system as it relates to environmental policy. His book makes clear a number of important points. He notes the pervasive influence of the White House...

... southeastern longleaf forest ecosystems attracts a wide diversity of detractors. As an art, not a science, of environmental manipulation that attempts to suspend forests in a sustainable, balanced, and natural state and has as one of its core principles the rejection of formulaic forestry, the method claims...

... of different species and their relationships in a particular area, and the amount and variety of distinct ecosystems over a larger geographic region. Each author makes a com? pelling case that pre-contact and post-contact Native communities actively increased the biodiversity of the lands they inhabited...

... what they consider the most pressing problems and issues facing humankind. Based on the belief that Earth is fast approaching its population limit, the authors address global bio? diversity and its decline. Various sections evaluate freshwater ecosystems, the extinction of mammals in the modern era...

... agricultural ex? pansion onto marginal lands, leading to greater greenhouse emissions and soil degradation; and (because of inherent inefficiencies in nitrogen recovery by plants) has led to an unbalanced enrichment of natural ecosystems by nitrogen. It is an odd book given the title. History and society would...