Welcome to the H-Environment network. Part of H-NET, the Humanities & Social Sciences Online initiative, H-Environment is supported by organizations of professional historians including the American Society for Environmental History and the European Society for Environmental History.
This two-day interdisciplinary workshop is made possible thanks to the generous support of the British Academy (grant number BARSEA19\190021). It expands on the work of the Narrative Science project, a European Research Council funded project based at the London School of Economics (grant agreement No. 694732). It will take place in London on the 18th-19th of July.
Guest Editor: Tom Rankin
Submission deadline: June 9, 2019
The Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University http://www.history-global-development.net/ invites applications for fellowships for visiting scholars working on projects related to the history of policies, concepts, practices or debates related to development on local, national, regional or global levels.
The First International Congress on a Philosophy for Emancipation, Diversity, and the Life of the Planet and the Twenty-Second International Conference on An Alternative Political Science will be held in Havana, Cuba from November 19 to November 23, 2019.
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)
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)
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)
Miranda Johnson. The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Illustrations. 248 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-060006-8; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-060002-0.
Reviewed by John Sandlos (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-Environment (February, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Jeff Karnicky. Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 246 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-9498-1.
Reviewed by Amy Coale (Florida State University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2019)
Title: Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Author: Brian McCammack
Commentators: J.T. Roane, Simon Balto, Kimberly Ruffin, Colin Fisher
Editor: Keith Makoto Woodhouse
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2019)
Title: Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975
Author: Michitake Aso
Commentators: Teresa Cribelli, Amy M. Hay, Stephen L. Harp, Pam McElwee
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2019)
Title: Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands
Author: Andrew Stuhl
Commentators: Tina Adcock, Sverker Sörlin, Stephen Bocking, Andy Bruno
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 6 (2018)
Title: The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720
Author: Dagomar Degroot
Commentators: Nicholas J. Cunigan, James Bergman, Katrin Kleemann, Thomas Wickman
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle
