The first issue for 2011 is a bumper one, containing a rich variety of writing on the environment. First up, Victoria University of Wellington’s Amy Davis provides a fascinating examination of the environmental history of the Wellington suburb of Karori. In the next article, Lily Lee and Ruth Lam examine the story of Chinese market gardener and entrepreneur, 陈达枝 Chan Dah Chee, and the family business he established.
In the first of three book reviews, David Young reviews the recently-published Seeds of Empire…, one of the fruits of a multi-disciplinary Marsden-funded project led by Professors Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson. Next, Ondine Godtschalk examines the new overview of New Zealand’s quarantine history, by public historians Gavin McLean and Tim Shoebridge. The last is by Australian-based garden and heritage writer, Stuart Read, who reviews Kristin Lammerting and Ferdinand Graf von Luckner’s Inspirational Gardens of New Zealand. Finally, Ruth Morgan, University of Western Australia, overviews the ‘Nature, Empire and Power’ conference, held at the University of Waikato in December 2010.
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- James Beattie.
The next issue of the Journal of the History of Biology is a special issue on Environmental History. Libby Robin and Jane Carruthers are the guest editors, and there is a strong Australian and South African focus. Authors are Brett M. Bennett, Etienne Benson, Karen Brown, Laura Cameron & David Matless, M. Timm Hoffman & Richard Frederick Rohde, and J. Donald Hughes.