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We take electricity for granted and do not think of where it comes from when we switch on a light or use an electrical appliance. But behind the electricity coming out of a wall socket lays an entire energy landscape of poles, wires, electrical substations and power stations. It is imposed on the landscape like a gigantic web, a grid that has become almost part of the natural scenery.
Call for Proposals:
Doing Business across Borders
A conference at the Hagley Museum and Library, November 6, 2015
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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
