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I am looking to organizing a panel on the history of coastal environments for the 2018 ASEH conference in Riverside. I am open to papers addressing a wide range of coastal environments, from wild to urban, and focusing on any era or part of the world. My paper will explore technologies of maintaining and controlling the movements of sand on beaches as well as the attitudes toward dynamic coastal environments reflected in those technologies.
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I am interested in organizing a panel on oil-related environmental histories of the Greater Caribbean (including the Gulf of Mexico and southern United States) for the 2018 ASEH conference in Riverside, CA. My own research is on the Hess oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the second panelist’s research is focused on petrochemicals in Mexico and the southern United States. We are currently looking for a third panelist.
Dear Colleagues,
I'm happy to announce a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews. This one discusses Joshua L. Reid's The Sea Is My Country. Please enjoy and distribute!
The winter 2019 issue of Utah Historical Quarterly will focus on a special theme: the edges of the Great Salt Lake, where the water meets the land. We welcome short or long research articles, biographies, primary documents, photographic essays, and archaeological field notes and case studies related to that dynamic border. We are especially interested in wetlands, waterfowl hunting, bird refuges, boats, and development along the lake's edges. We also welcome essays that examine the lake in a larger environmental and cultural context.
Reminder: June 30 deadline is approaching.
Call for Papers
Our World of Water: Histories of the Hydrosphere
November 4, 2017
Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Darren Frederick Speece. Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 384 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-99951-7.
Reviewed by Erik Loomis (University of Rhode Island)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Quentin R. Skrabec. Aluminum in America: A History. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. viii + 244 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9955-7.
Reviewed by Bart Elmore (Ohio State University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Jeremy Vetter. Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era. INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. 512 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4453-9.
Reviewed by Lukas Rieppel (Brown University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Anya Zilberstein. A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 280 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-020659-8.
Reviewed by James Bergman (Michigan State University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Bruce D. Epperson. Roads through the Everglades: The Building of the Ingraham Highway, the Tamiami Trail and Conners Highway, 1914-1931. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. 276 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6479-8.
Reviewed by Steven G. Noll (University of Florida)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2017)
Author: Joshua L. Reid
Title: The Sea is My Country: the Maritime World of the Makahs
Commentators: William Bauer, Jr., Bathsheba Demuth, Edward D. Melillo, Helen M. Rozwadowski
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2017)
Author: Carolyn Finney
Title: Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Author: Carl A. Zimring
Title: Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
Commentators: Mary E. Mendoza, Kathryn Morse, Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., Traci Brynne Voyles
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 8 (2016)
Author: Kieko Matteson
Title: Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669-1848
Commentators: Caroline Ford, Catherine T. Dunlop, Richard Keyser
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roudtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 7 (2016)
Author: Paul Sutter
Title: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
Commentators: Jay Turner, Conevery Bolton Valencius, Claire Campbell, Steven Stoll
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
