...Brian Lander [email protected] Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin . By Emily O'Gorman . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2021 . 288 pp., $30.00 , paperback, ISBN 9780295749150 . Copyright © 2024...

...Nicholas Dunning Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change in the Wetlands of Belize . Julie L. Kunen . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 114 / Agricultural History Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change...

...ANTHONY E. CARLSON Abstract This essay evaluates national wetlands policy during the first decade of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1890s the national government began to assume new responsibilities for natural resource management. By the end of World War I, Congress exercised some form...

...Eric Steiger The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley . By Philip Garone . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . 448 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26663-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews...

...Bruce Bigelow Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890–1930 . John Thompson . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 735 Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois...

... synthetic chapters, the book covers topics from social organization to specific types of cultivation, such as wetland farming in the valley of Mexico. Whitmore and Turner carefully piece together an array of archaeological and topographical data and secondary literature?they eschew archival sources in favor...

... of the inhabitants of the Fens and other nearby wetlands in eastern England ( the Fennish, as Boyce calls them); the draining of those wetlands in the early modern era; and the fierce resistance to drainage and enclosure sustained over centuries by the region s commoners. The book covers the span of recorded...

... for scholars working on the region. Not only do terraces shed light on agricultural technology, but they also provide clues on levels of social organization. Chapter seven covers what the authors consider the "most elaborate" and "productive" pre-conquest practice: wetland agriculture (195). In areas...

... and that is the highest praise for such a work. Michael Pierce University of Arkansas Fayetteville The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California s Great Central Valley. By Philip Garone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 448 pp., $39.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26663-6. Philip Garone s excellent first...

... flooding with levees, dredged shipping channels, drained wetlands for development, built dams to power communities, and encountered periodic drought. Many chapters could easily stand alone; three have been previously published in some form. An excellent chapter, Saturated Landscapes aka wetlands...

... of water. Over the last two centuries, Southerners fought flooding with levees, dredged shipping channels, drained wetlands for development, built dams to power communities, and encountered periodic drought. Many chapters could easily stand alone; three have been previously published in some form...

...., $19.95, hardback, ISBN 978-1-78578-650-1. James Boyce s latest book is an enjoyable history of a large and complicated set of topics: the traditional lifestyle and economy of the inhabitants of the Fens and other nearby wetlands in eastern England ( the Fennish, as Boyce calls them); the draining...

... and by highlighting the central role capitalism has played in shaping this region. The main narrative considers a plan, led mostly by nonresident landowners, to drain an eighteen-thousand-acre wetland in Freeborn County, Minnesota. The result was the loss of the Big Marsh, when water pooled and ribboned freely...

... authorities as it sought permission to drain wetlands to make way for Walt Disney World. Martin believes that projects like this distract us from sites of harm, allowing corporations to compensate for them elsewhere. She sees a different path forward, one that is focused on justice and remediation of harm...

..., creeks, wetlands, and tidal marshlands. The Napa River unites these diverse elements into a complete system and is treated appropriately as a separate dynamic element. The closing chapter is an actual guide to important locations from which to view remnant historical landscapes. What stands out...

... fifty years. The Pacific Flyway was the result of redirecting water to irrigate the arid lands of the North American West. Draining wetlands for agriculture destroyed key habitat for migratory waterfowl, while pushing aside Native people who depended upon them for subsistence. By the early twentieth...

... to out-of-staters on installment plans in the years between the 1950s and 1970s, when the state finally stepped in to curtail the practice. These individuals damaged Florida more than any others, Vuic figures, not only because they hoodwinked investors or destroyed wetlands, but because they set...

... wetlands and heaths in order to garner enough natural fertilizer, wood prod? ucts, and foods from native plants and animals to sustain traditional extensive farming methods. Gudermann is thus reluctant to credit early nineteenth century entrepre- Book Reviews / 615 neurs and bourgeois reformers...

... in the 1980s and 1990s, Winnemucca Lake intermittently held water, but it is now a dry alkali lakebed. The Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge and Management Area lies at the terminus point of diverted waters from the Truckee. To the north and east of Fallon ranches, this major wetland site endured low water...

... of the Carson River originate in east and west forks in Alpine County, California. As it flows eastward the Carson River is impounded by the Lahontan Reservoir, part of the Newlands Project. After it is used for irrigation purposes on the Newlands Project, the water terminates in the Carson's sink, a "wetland...