H-Environment

H-Net's network for environmental history

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.

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Recent Discussions

CFP -- New Perspectives in the History of Child Health

Jason Chernesky •09/27/2023 Discussion

**2024 Workshop and Special Issue: Call for Proposals**

Call for paper proposals for an international workshop on child health history hosted at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, on June 21-22, 2024. There is support available for travel and lodging. The workshop is sponsored by: The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the University of Fribourg

In bringing together junior and senior scholars working on issues surrounding children’s health and healthcare, the workshop aims at developing a series of articles for a special issue journal focusing on child health and

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2024 Gomory Prize Submission Deadline/November 30th

Carol Ressler Lockman •09/19/2023 Discussion

2023 Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference was awarded to Edmond Smith for his book,  Merchants.  The Community That Shaped England’s Trade and Empire, 1550-1650  (Yale University Press) at the Business History Conference held in Detroit, Michigan, March 18th. 2023.

The Ralph Gomory Prize for Business History (made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) recognizes historical work on the effect business enterprises have on the economic conditions of a country in which they operate.   A $5,000 prize is awarded annually.  Eligible books are written In English and published

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2024 Hagley Prize Submission Deadline/November 30th, 2023

Carol Ressler Lockman •09/19/2023 Discussion

Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference are pleased to announce the 2023 co-winners of the Hagley Prize: Hannah Farber, Underwriters of the United States:  How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, University of North Carolina Press and Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral, Buying into Change:  Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco’s Spain, 1939-1982, University of Nebraska Press.  Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference jointly offer the Hagley Prize awarded to the best book in Business History (broadly defined) and consists of an

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Recent Reviews

Ortega Santos on Armiero and Biasillo and Hardenberg, 'Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism'

Author
Armiero, Marco; Biasillo, Roberta; Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von
Reviewer
Ortega Santos, Antonio

Armiero, Marco; Biasillo, Roberta; Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von. Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022. viii + 251 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262544719.

Reviewed by Antonio Ortega Santos (University of Granada)
Published on H-Environment (September, 2023)
Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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Recent Roundtable Reviews

Crawford, "The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13 no. 5 (2023)

Kara Schlichting •04/06/2023 Contribution

Dear Colleagues,

Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Sharika D. Crawford's The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. Please enjoy and distribute widely.

Title: The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making

Author: Sharika D. Crawford

Contributors: Elizabeth Hennessy, Karl Offen, Russell Fielding, Mary Draper

Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting

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Miller, "Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13 no. 4 (2023)

Kara Schlichting •03/27/2023 Contribution

Dear Colleagues,

Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Ian M. Miller's Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Please enjoy and distribute widely. 

Title: Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

Author: Ian M. Miller

Contributors: Jonathan Schlesinger, Ruth Mostern, Keith Pluymers

Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting

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Black, "The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13, no. 3 (2023)

Kara Schlichting •03/21/2023 Contribution

Dear Colleagues,

Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Megan Black's The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. Please enjoy and distribute widely.

Title: The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power

Author: Megan Black

Contributors: Shellen X. Wu, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, Brian Leech, Jacob Darwin Hamblin

Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle

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Barbour, "Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1930," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13, no. 1 (2023)

Kara Schlichting •03/13/2023 Contribution

Dear Colleagues,

Announcing a new editon of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Dale Barbour's Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1930. Please enjoy and distribute widely.

Title: Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1930

Author: Dale Barbour

Contributors: Sarah Schrank, Bruce Kidd, Ken Cruikshank, Daniel Ross

Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting

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