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Volume 88, Issue 2, April 1998 Special Issue: Historical Geography & Environmental History Table of Contents Articles Introduction: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY By Craig E. Colten THE ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AN APPALACHIAN VALLEY, 1850-1906 By Geoffrey L. Buckley INDUSTRIAL TOPOGRAPHY, GROUNDWATER, AND THE CONTOURS OF ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE By Craig E. Colten COSTS AND BENEFITS OF POLLUTION CONTROL IN PENNSYVLANIA, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY, 1840-1906 By Christine Meisner Rosen MORAL GEOGRAPHY IN HIGH PLAINS HISTORY By John Opie WILLIAM WHYTE, OPEN SPACE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM By Adam W. Rome "THE END OF MODERN HISTORY"? By Michael Williams   GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS THE NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE By Joseph S. Wood..........Reviewed by John A. Jakle CAPROCK CANYONLANDS: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains. By Dan Flores.........Reviewed by John B. Wright LET THE COWBOY RIDE: Cattle Ranching in the American West. By Paul F. Starrs..........Reviewed by Owen Ulph WANDERING PEOPLES: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850. By Cynthia Radding..........Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Smith RAINFOREST CITIES: Urbanization, Develoment, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon. By John O. Browder and Brian J. Godfrey.........Reviewed by Nigel J. H. Smith THE ENCHANTED AMAZON RAIN FOREST: Stories from a Vanishing World. By Nigel J. H. Smith.........Reviewed by Edward A. Whitesell HISTORICAL ECOLOGY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt........Reviewed by Robert Kuhlken MAPPING MEN AND EMPIRE: A Geography of Adventure. By Richard Phillips.........Reviewed by Peter J. Hugill MAPPING AN EMPIRE: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843. By Matthew H. Edney..........Reviewed by Joseph E. Schwartzberg CHARTING AN EMPIRE: Geography at the English Universities, 1580-1620. By Lesley B. Cormack.........Reviewed by Geoffrey J. Martin THE MYTH OF CONTINENTS: A Critique of Metageography By Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen..........Reviewed by David Hooson