The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History

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Contributors Peter Coates is Professor of American and Environmental History at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy (1991), Nature: Western Attitudes since Ancient Times (1998), Salmon (2006), and American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species (2007) and coauthor (with William Beinart) of Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa (1995). His current interests include militarized landscapes and rivers. Craig E. Colten is the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University. He is the author of An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature (2005) and Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana (2009). He is currently working on projects dealing with urban resiliency and southern water resources. Stephen H. Cutcliffe is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society and History at Lehigh University, where he serves as Chair of the Department of History. He is the author of Ideas, Machines, and Values: An Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society Studies (2000). Hugh S. Gorman is Associate Professor of Environmental History and Policy at Michigan Technological University. Currently, he is working on a book-length project that examines the notion of sustainability through society ’s changing interactions with the nitrogen cycle. He is the author of Redefining E≈ciency (2001), which examines the petroleum industry’s response to pollution and pollution-control regulations over the course of the twentieth century. 304 | Contributors Betsy Mendelsohn directs the Science, Technology and Society programs at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is writing a history of environmental law in the United States. Joy Parr is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Risk in the Department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of numerous monographs, the most recent being Sensing Changes: Technology, Environments and the Everyday, 1953–1003 (2009). Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University specializing in Chinese history, especially that of the environment. He is the author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Human, 1500–1850 (1987) and China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005). Sara B. Pritchard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University specializing in environmental history , the history of technology, and the history of twentieth-century France and the French empire. She is the author of Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming). Martin Reuss retired from his position as Senior Historian, Civil Works (Water Resources), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, after serving in that position for twenty-four years. He is the author of Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800–1995 (1998, rev. ed. 2004) and has written or edited numerous other books and articles. He continues to focus his historical research on the intersection of politics, technology, and the environment in water projects and programs. William D. Rowley holds the Gri√en Chair in Nevada and the West at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has written histories of New Deal agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service grazing administration, as well as a biography of Senator Francis G. Newlands. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation published volume 1 of his Bureau of Reclamation: Origins and Growth to 1945 in 2006. Currently he is working on volume 2, which addresses the bureau’s activities in the latter half of the twentieth century. Edmund Russell is Associate Professor in the Department of Science, Technology , and Society and the Department of History at the University of Vir- Contributors | 305 ginia. He is the author of War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (2001) and is now researching the role in human history of evolution in nonhuman species. Joel A. Tarr is the Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History & Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of numerous articles and books dealing with the city and the urban environment, including The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (1996), and coauthor (with Clay McShane) of The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (2007). Ann Vileisis is an independent scholar and author. Her most recent book is Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We...