Environment and History Volume 5 October 1999 Number 3 EDITORIAL Richard Grove 253 FEATURES Oriental Nature, its Friends and its Enemies: Conservation of Nature in Late-Colonial Indonesia, 1889–1949 Peter Boomgaard 257 Abruzzo National Park: Land of Dreams James Sievert 293 Thomas Pringle’s Plantation Damian Shaw 309 How Terms Shape Forests: ‘Niederwald’, ‘Mittelwald’ and ‘Hochwald’, and their Interaction with Forest Development in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland Matthias Bürgi 325 Environment and Social History: Kalahandi, 1800–1950 Biswamoy Pati 345 Military Conflict and Forests in Central Provinces, India: Gonds and the Gondwana Region in Pre-colonial History Archana Prasad 361 Index to Environment and History volume 5, 1999 377 ? = username $REMOTE_ASSR = IP address Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:17:41 = Date & Time Environment and History Environment and History is an interdisciplinary journal which aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the deliberate intention of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems. Contributions and editorial enquiries should be addressed to The Editor, c/o the White Horse Press, 10 High Street, Knapwell, Cambridge CB3 8NR, UK. Fax 01954 267527. A style sheet is available on request. EDITOR Richard H. Grove Australian National University email [email protected] fax 616 249 3051 CORRESPONDING EDITOR Mahesh Rangarajan Nehru Memorial Institute EDITORIAL BOARD Daniel Alexandrov, Russian Academy of Sciences; David Arnold, SOAS, London; William Beinart, University of Oxford; George Benneh, University of Ghana; Peter Boomgaard, Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology; Tim Bonyhady, Australian National University; Peter Brimblecombe, University of East Anglia; Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa; Alfred Crosby, University of Texas; Quentin Cronk, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; John Dargavel, Australian National University; Mark Elvin, Australian National University; Madhav Gadgil, Indian Institute of Ecological Sciences; Leos Jelecek, Charles University, Prague; John Mackenzie, Lancaster University; Roy Macleod, University of Sydney; Diego Moreno, University of Genoa; Astrid Ogilvie, University of Colorado; Jose Padua, Rural University of Rio de Janeiro; Christian Pfister, University of Bern; Jacques Pouchepadass, CNRS, Paris; Joseph Powell, Monash University; Oliver Rackham, University of Cambridge; Ravi Rajan, University of California, Santa Cruz; John Richards, Duke University; Simon Schama, Columbia University; John Sheail, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood; Christopher Smout, University of St Andrews; Graeme Snooks, Australian National University; Joy Tukuhirwa, Makerere University, Uganda; Piers Vitebsky, University of Cambridge; Donald Worster, University of Kansas; Michael Williams, University of Oxford Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in America: History and Life, Environment Abstracts, Forestry Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, Rural Sociology Ab- stracts and World Agricultural Economics. Single articles can be ordered online via Access to UnCover® (log in at www.allenpress.com with user name ‘access’, password ‘deliver’) SUBSCRIPTIONS Environment and History is published three times per year. ISSN 0967-3407. Annual subscription rates (1999) are £60/$US100 for institutions, or £30/$US50 for individuals at their private address. Orders should be sent to The White Horse Press (subscriptions), 1 Strond, Isle of Harris, Scotland HS5 3UD. Fax 01859520204; email [email protected]; www.erica.demon.co.uk © 1999 The White Horse Press, Cambridge, UK Cover: Bird of Paradise from first annual report of The Netherlands Indies Society for the Protection of Nature (Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden) ? = username $REMOTE_ASSR = IP address Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:17:41 = Date & Time.