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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / STUDIES
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Christian Wright.
Carbon County USA: Miners for Democracy in Utah and the West.
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps, graphs. xlvi + 423 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60781-731-4. 
Reviewed by Brian Leech (Augustana College) Published on H-Environment (April, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Georg Wilhelm Engel Steller.
Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition.
Trans. and ed. Margritt A. Engel and Karen E. Willmore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. xxv + 220 pp.
$32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04778-6.
Ida Milne. Stacking the Coffins: Influenza, War and Revolutions in Ireland, 1918-19. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. 280 pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5261-2269-8.
Reviewed by Emma Dewhirst (Queen's University Belfast) Published on H-Environment (March, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Richard Ravalli.
Sea Otters: A History.
Studies in Pacific Worlds Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Illustrations. xxiv + 189 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-8440-1.
Reviewed by Les Beldo (University of Chicago) Published on H-Environment (March, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Kimberly K. Smith.
The Conservation Constitution: The Conservation Movement and Constitutional Change, 1870-1930.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. 320 pp.
$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2844-5.
Reviewed by Sierra Standish (University of Colorado Boulder) Published on H-Environment (March, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Thomas M. Lekan's Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti
Author: Thomas M. Lekan
Commentators: Chris Conte, Corinna Treitel, Jeff Schauer, Julie Weiskopf
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues-
I am pleased to announce a new editon of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Andrew A. Robichaud's Animal City: The Domestication of America. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review vol. 11 no. 1 (2022)
Title: Animal City: The Domestication of America
Author: Andrew A. Robichaud
Commentators: Dawn Biehler, Frederick L. Brown, Joshua Specht, and Joanna Dean
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Perrin Selcer's The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth
Author: Perrin Selcer
Commenters: Megan Black, Sabine Höhler, Thomas Robertson, Libby Robin
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of the H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Thomas Wickman's Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast.
Roundtable Review vol. 10 no. 10 (2020)
Title: Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast
Author: Thomas Wickman
Commenters: Jon T. Coleman, Rachel B. Herrmann, Andrew Lipman, Molly A. Warsh
