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Martin V. Melosi. Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 800 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18949-1.
Reviewed by Lily B. Pollans (Hunter College, City University of New York) Published on H-Environment (January, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
James A. Kushlan.
Seeking the American Tropics: South Florida's Early Naturalists.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 248 pp.
$26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-6648-6. 
Ron Broglio.
Animal Revolution.
Illustrations by Marina Zurkow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. Illustrations. 160 pp.
$88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1243-7; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1244-4.
Josiah Rector.
Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit.
Justice, Power, and Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 332 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6575-7; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6576-4.
Michael Welsh. Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem. America's National Parks Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2021. Illustrations. 288 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-948908-82-5.
Reviewed by Eytan Pol (Texas Tech University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Cameron B. Strang's Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850
Author: Cameron B. Strang
Contributors: Elaine LaFay, Eleanora Rohland, Dan Rood, and Christopher D.E. Willoughby
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables, featuring Melissa Checker's The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice
Author: Melissa Checker
Contributors: Hannah Knox, Steven H. Corey, Steven T. Moga
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Phoebe S.K. Young's Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement
Author: Phoebe S.K. Young
Contributors: William P. Philpott, Marsha Weisiger, Robert Hoberman, Rachel S. Gross
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Jenny Price's Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto
Author: Jenny Price
Contributors: Sarah Dimick, Pollyanna Rhee, Nicole Welk-Joerger, Rob Gioielli
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
