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I am seeking participants for a roundtable on cartography and mapmaking for ASEH 2023. The broad goal is to help environmental historians incorporate maps into their research, either by making their own maps or by seeking out the help of GIS librarians and cartographers.
Jonathan Todd Hancock. Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 186 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6218-3; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6217-6.
Reviewed by Caroline Greer (George Mason University) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
David L. Haberman. Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2021. 330 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-05604-7.
Reviewed by Cybelle Shattuck (Western Michigan University) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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Gregory E. Smoak, ed.
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2021. 240 pp.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64769-034-2.
Bruce D. Jones. To Rule the Waves: How Control of the Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers. New York: Scribner, 2021. 400 pp. $18.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-982127-26-8.
Reviewed by Aria Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova, eds.
Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History.
Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. xxi + 343 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-912186-16-7.
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Toshihiro Higuchi's Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis
Author: Toshihiro Higuchi
Commenters: Sumiko Hatakeyama, Stephen Macekura, Rachel Emma Rothschild, Perrin Selcer
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Kirsten A. Greer's Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
Author: Kirsten A. Greer
Commentators: Robert M. Wilson, Vinita Damodaran, Maria Lane, Philip Howell, Ruth A. Morgan
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Andy Horowitz's Katrina: A History, 1915-2015. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
Author: Andy Horowitz
Commenters: Robin McDowell, Craig Colten, Lynnell Thomas, Leslie M. Harris
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Thomas M. Lekan's Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti
Author: Thomas M. Lekan
Commentators: Chris Conte, Corinna Treitel, Jeff Schauer, Julie Weiskopf
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting