Mark J. McLaughlin

Book (in progress):

“Trees Are a Crop: The Crown Forest and the Modernization Ethos in New Brunswick, 1940-1982.” Under advance contract with UBC Press.

 Refereed Print Publications:

Journal Articles

“‘their unalienable right and privilege’: New Brunswick’s Challenge to the Militarization of the British Empire, 1807-1814″ (co-authored with Elizabeth Mancke and David L. Bent). Acadiensis XLVI, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2017): 49-72.

“Rise of the Eco-Comics: The State, Environmental Education, and Canadian Comic Books, 1971-1975.” Material Culture Review 77/78 (Spring/Fall 2013 [August 2014]): 9-20.

“The Politics of Forestry: The Failure of the Lepreau Pulp and Paper Project in New Brunswick, 1947-1949.” The Forestry Chronicle 90, no. 3 (May/June 2014): 310-313.

“Green Shoots: Aerial Insecticide Spraying and the Growth of Environmental Consciousness inNew Brunswick, 1952-1973.” Acadiensis XL, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2011): 3-23.

“Power Tools as Tools of Power: Mechanization in the Tree Harvest of the Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Industry.” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 21, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 235-254.

Edited Collections

“Cultivating Nature in the Backyard of my Youth: How a Small Family Farm Shaped my Growth as an Environmental Historian.” In Backyard Natures: An Exploration of Local Environments in the Northeast, eds. Richard W. Judd, Brian Payne, and Emma Schroeder, forthcoming. 

“From Timber Colony to Pulp Province: Capital, State, and Society in the New Brunswick Forest Industries, 1780-2020” (co-authored with Bill Parenteau). In Canada’s Forests, eds. Graeme Wynn and David Brownstein, Vol. 1. Canberra, AU: Australian National University Press, forthcoming.

“The State as Alternative: Conceptualizing the Historical Role of Government Comics in Canada.” In The Canadian Alternative: Canadian Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels, eds. Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman, 16-34. Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. 

 “‘as thick as molasses’: Water Pollution Regulation in New Brunswick, 1947-1975.” In Modern Canada: 1945 to Present, ed. Catherine Briggs, 369-382. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2014.

“Green Shoots: Aerial Insecticide Spraying and the Growth of Environmental Consciousness inNew Brunswick, 1952-1973” (revised version). In Land and Sea: Environmental History in Atlantic Canada, eds. Claire Campbell and Robert Summerby-Murray, 143-157 and 292-298. Fredericton, NB: Acadiensis Press, 2013.

“A ‘Fundamental Cost that We Can’t Deal With?’: The Political Economy of the Pulp and Paper Industry in New Brunswick, 1960-Present” (co-authored with Bill Parenteau). In Exploring the Dimensions of Self-Sufficiency for New Brunswick, eds. Michael Boudreau, Peter G. Toner, and Tony Tremblay, 13-34. Fredericton, NB: New Brunswick and Atlantic Studies Research and Development Centre and St. Thomas University, 2009.

Journal Forum:

“Forests as Laboratories: The Intersections of the Histories of Forests, the Environment, and Science,” Environmental History 28, no. 4 (October 2023): 679-686.