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.
Villa Le Balze (Georgetown University in Fiesole) offers a three-week summer course entitled "Plague, Tuscany & the Globalization of the Disease". The course welcomes non-Georgetown students: June 29, 2019 to July 19, 2019
The Agricultural History Society is now accepting nominations for its 2018 awards, to be presented at the annual meeting in June 2019. To be considered for an award, the article, book, or dissertation must bear a 2018 original publication date. AHS welcomes submissions for the following honors:
The Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award Award for the best book on U.S. agricultural history, broadly interpreted, with an original copyright date of 2018.
Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History 2019
Call for Papers: The Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE) is now accepting proposals for its annual conference, to be held at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, April 26-27, 2019.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 3 December 2018 to 10 December 2018. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Environment.
Call for Abstracts
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. 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
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 5 (2018)
Title: Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World
Author: Corey Ross
Commentators: Iftekhar Iqbal, Meredith McKittrick, Richard Tucker
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2018)
Title: The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China
Author: Ling Zhang
Commentators: Robert B. Marks, Maya Peterson, Yan Gao, Donald Worster
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2018)
Title: The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
Author: Courtney Fullilove
Commentators: Deborah Fitzgerald, B. R. Cohen, Jenny Leigh Smith, Jeremy Vetter
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
