EH Vol. 15(1), February 2009

Editorial. Georgina Endfield

Jan van Riebeeck as Pioneering Explorer and Conservator of Natural Resources at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-62) Simon Pooley

Fighting With a Weed: Water Hyacinth and the State in Colonial Bengal, c. 1910-1947 Iftekhar Iqbal

Population, Land Use and Environmental Impacts in Shucheng County, Anhui Province, China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties Yan Zuozhi, Gu Hongyi, Dai Yangben, Wu Xuande, John A Dearing, Zhang Weiguo

Contestation over Resources: The Farmer-Miner Dispute in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1903-1939 Muchaparara Musemwa

Book Reviews

Diana K. Davis, Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (Muchaparara Musemwa)
Neena Ambre Rao, Forest Ecology in India: Colonial Maharashtra, 1850Ð1950 (Laxman D. Satya)
Paige West, Conservation is our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (Libby Robin)
John Elder, Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh (Ross Balzaretti)
Gregory S. Aldrete, Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (Susanne Dobrovolny)

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