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Recent Discussions
CFP: Doing Business across Borders, A Conference at the Hagely Museum and Library, Nov. 6, 2015
Call for Proposals:
Doing Business across Borders
A conference at the Hagley Museum and Library, November 6, 2015
2015 McLean lectures now available
Now available:
Tina Loo, “Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and a ‘Good Life’ in Postwar Canada,” the 2015 McLean Lectures in Canadian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Enjoy!
Lecture 1: Hell and Hope in the Barrenlands (28/1/15)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRAxGA1lAKA
Podcast: http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/~petersen/media/mclean01.mp3
CfP: Global Deserts: Environmental History in the Arid Lands
Location: University of Arizona
Sponsors: The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany; Temple University, Philadelphia, USA; the University of Arizona, Tuscon; and the University of California, Davis.
Call for Papers: "Global Environmental Histories from Below" for Special Issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
Global Environmental Histories from Below
Call for Papers
Special Issue of
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
http://www.resiliencejournal.org
Robert Morrissey and Roderick Wilson, editors
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Susan B. Carter
Carter on Chen, 'Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America'
Yong Chen. Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America. Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 312 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16892-2.
Reviewed by Susan B. Carter
Published on H-Environment (February, 2015)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Chop Suey: America's First Big Mac?
Reviewer:
Richard Hölzl
Hölzl on Dargavel and Johann, 'Science and Hope: A Forest History'
John Dargavel, Elisabeth Johann. Science and Hope: A Forest History. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2013. 278 pp. $77.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-874267-73-7.
Reviewed by Richard Hölzl (Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte)
Published on H-Environment (January, 2015)
Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen
Reviewer:
Erik Altenbernd
Altenbernd on Mergen, 'At Pyramid Lake'
Bernard Mergen. At Pyramid Lake. Reno: University of Nevada Press, April 8, 2014. xiv + 292 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-87417-939-2.
Reviewed by Erik Altenbernd
Published on H-Environment (December, 2014)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
Heather Fryer
Fryer on Hurt, 'The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century'
R. Douglas Hurt. The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. 344 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8165-2970-4; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8165-2972-8.
Reviewed by Heather Fryer (Creighton University)
Published on H-Environment (December, 2014)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
Suzanne Moss
Moss on Holway, 'The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created'
Tatiana Holway. The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 306 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-537389-9.
Reviewed by Suzanne Moss (Royal Horticultural Society)
Published on H-Environment (December, 2014)
Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Finley, 'All the Fish in the Sea,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2015)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2015)
Author: Carmel Finley
Title: All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management
Commentators: Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, Arthur F. McEvoy, Bo Poulsen, Michael J. Chiarappa
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Wakild, 'Revolutionary Parks,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2015)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2015)
Author: Emily Wakild
Title: Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910-1940
Commentators: Sterling Evans, Adrian Howkins, Curt Meine, Cynthia Radding
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Garone, 'The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 10 (2014)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 10 (2014)
Author: Philip Garone
Title: The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley
Commentators: Matthew Morse Booker, Patrick Carroll, Royal C. Gardner, Emily O'Gorman
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Brown, 'Plutopia,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 9 (2014)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 9 (2014)
Author: Kate Brown
Title: Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Commentators: Paul Josephson, Kristen Iversen, Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Editor: Christopher F. Jones