Call for papers: toxicity in the global South ESEH 2021
Histories of toxicity, pollution, and the environment in the Global South
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Virtual Conference: Other Worlds — Octopuses in Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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9/29 Malgeri Modern American Society & Culture Seminar: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era
"No unseated crowd is liable to be orderly”: Organizing Audiences around Spectacle in the Industrial Era
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Brad Bolman
Bolman on Chez, 'Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture' and Sorenson and Matsuoka, 'Dog's Best Friend?: Rethinking Canid-Human Relations'
Keridiana Chez.
Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017. 212 pp.
$69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-1334-6. 
John Sorenson, Atsuko Karin Matsuoka, eds.
Dog's Best Friend?: Rethinking Canid-Human Relations.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. 400 pp.
Reviewer:
Taylor Bailey
Bailey on Kelly, 'The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925'
Tara Kathleen Kelly.
The Hunter Elite: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Conservation, 1880-1925.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018. 360 pp.
$27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-2588-8; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2587-1.
Reviewer:
Christopher Conz
Conz on Kelly, 'To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996'
Jill E. Kelly. To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996. African History and Culture Series. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 396 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61186-285-0.
Reviewed by Christopher Conz (Tufts University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer:
Christopher Deutsch
Deutsch on Anderson, 'Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America'
J. L. Anderson.
Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America.
Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2019. Illustrations. xiii + 285 pp.
$99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-946684-72-1; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-946684-73-8.
Reviewer:
Ana Baginski
Baginski on DeLoughrey, 'Allegories of the Anthropocene'
Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey. Allegories of the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2019. x + 269 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0471-4.
Reviewed by Ana Baginski (University of California, Irvine) Published on H-Environment (September, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54391
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Milder, "Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1963-1983" Roundtable vol. 10 no. 9 (2020)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Stephen Milder's Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1963-1983. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, vol. 10 no. 9 (2020)
Title: Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1963-1983
Author: Stephen Milder
Parsons, "A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America," Roundtable vol. 10 no. 8 (2020)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Christopher M. Parsons's A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, vol. 10 no. 8 (2020)
Title: A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Author: Christopher M. Parsons
Contributors: Claire Campbell, Cindy Ermus, Jacob F. Lee, Strother E. Roberts
Thomson, "The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health," Roundtable vol. 10 no. 6 (2020)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Jennifer Thomson's The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, vol. 10 no. 6 (2020)
Title: The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
Author: Jennifer Thomson
Commenters: Josiah Rector, David Stradling, Conevery Bolton Valencius, Natasha Zaretsky
DeLucia, "Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast," Roundtable vol. 10 no. 7 (2020)
Dear Colleagues-
I am pleased to announce a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews featuring Christine M. DeLucia, Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review vol. 10 no. 7 (2020)
Title: Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
Author: Christine M. DeLucia
Commentators: Joseph Hall, Ashley Elizabeth Smith, Maeve Kane, Thomas Wickman
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