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Oral History Training Institute at the University of Utah
Oral History Training Institute
University of Utah, May 11-14, 2020
CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED: Rutgers Global Affairs Conference (April 3, 2020)
Rutgers University Division of Global Affairs
Annual Global Affairs Conference
"GLOBAL POLITICS IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE"
April 3, 2020
Visiting Fellowships at the Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai University, 2020
Call for Applications:
Visiting Fellowships at the Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai University, 2020
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Sarah Pickman
Pickman on Kaganovsky and Mackenzie and Stenport, 'Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos'
Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott Mackenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport, eds. Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 372 pp. $36.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04030-5.
Reviewed by Sarah Pickman (Yale University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (University of Idaho)
Reviewer:
Ruth Sandwell
Sandwell on Bivar, 'Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France'
Venus Bivar. Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4118-8.
Reviewed by Ruth Sandwell (University of Toronto) Published on H-Environment (June, 2019) Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger)
Reviewer:
Arn M. Keeling
Keeling on Leech, 'The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit'
Brian James Leech. The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit. Mining and Society Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. 376 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-943859-42-9.
Reviewed by Arn M. Keeling (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-Environment (October, 2018) Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger)
Reviewer:
Robert Gioielli
Gioielli on Reynolds and Cohen, 'Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City'
Kristin Reynolds, Nevin Cohen. Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City. Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 216 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-4950-3; $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-4949-7.
Reviewed by Robert Gioielli (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Environment (April, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)
Reviewer:
Molly Rozum
Rozum on Register, 'The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape'
Cheri Register. The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016. Illustrations. 288 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-87351-995-3.
Reviewed by Molly Rozum (University of South Dakota) Published on H-Environment (April, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Coen, "Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale," Roundtable vol. 10 no. 1 (2020)
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Deborah R. Coen's Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, vol. 10, no. 1 (2020)
Title: Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale
Author: Deborah R. Coen
Chiang, "Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration," Roundtable vol. 9 no. 10 (2019)
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Connie Y. Chiang's Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, vol. 9, no. 10 (2019)
Title: Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration
Author: Connie Y. Chiang
Commentators: Megan Asaka, Brian McCammack, Duncan Ryūken Williams
Cavert, 'The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City' Roundtable Vol. 9, No. 9 (2019)
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring William Cavert's The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 9 (2019)
Title: The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City
Author: William M. Cavert
Commentators: Paul Warde, Leona Skelton, Peter Thorsheim
Willoughby, 'Yellow Fever Race and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans' Roundtable Vol. 9, No. 8 (2019)
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Urmi Engineer Willoughby's Yellow Fever, Race and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 8 (2019)
Title: Yellow Fever, Race and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Author: Urmi Engineer Willoughby
Commentators: Liz Skilton, Sheila Wille, Patrick Manning, Ranna A. Hogarth
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
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