Unlike many popular works that leave their readers begging for the sequel to make its appearance, Lowell Baier and his publisher Rowman & Littlefield have already brought out the next volume of his monumental history of the Endangered Species Act: “The Codex of the Endangered Species Act; Volume II – The Next Fifty Years.”
Prof. Ladd-Taylor’s “Fixing the Poor” is centered on the activities of the U.S. states and counties, particularly those of the state of Minnesota, in which enforced sterilization laws were in place for both eugenic as well as penal purposes. Through this, the reader is presented with the remarkable scale of these laws, their variation across the states, and the span of time over which they were in force (those of my own home state of Oregon were in place until 1983).
What with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a fight for its very existence, the recent publication of Pamela Hill’s “Environmental Protection” in the Oxford University Press What Everyone Needs to Know® series seems particularly timely indeed.