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Princeton University is pleased to announce the call for applications to the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). Each year the program selects scholars from around the world to be in residence at Princeton for an academic year and to engage in research and discussion around a common theme.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
27 July 2020 to 3 August 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Environment. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / STUDIES
“Same planet, different worlds: environmental histories imagining anew.”
Bristol, United Kingdom | 5th-9th July 2021
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
20 July 2020 to 27 July 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Environment. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / STUDIES
Co-editors Venus Bivar and Tamara Whited are pleased to announce a special issue of Modern and Contemporary France on the subject of "Industrial French Food and Its Critics." Articles include Benjamin Poole on the popularity of fast food and the myth of Americanization; John Murphy on the rise of the frozen food industry; Alison Levine on documentary film as critique of industrial meat production; Valeria Siniscalchi on the Slow Food movement in France; and Nicole Dombrowski Risser on a woman-owned organic olive farm in Provence. The Introduction and articles may be accessed through
Tracy McDonald, Daniel Vandersommers, eds.
Zoo Studies: A New Humanities.
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 360 pp.
$34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5691-1; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5690-4. 
Reviewed by Ashley Kerr (University of Idaho) Published on H-Environment (August, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
John H. Hartig.
Waterfront Porch: Reclaiming Detroit's Industrial Waterfront as a Gathering Place for All.
East Lansing: Greenstone Books, 2019. 208 pp.
$24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-948314-02-2.
Reviewed by Ramya Swayamprakash (Michigan State University) Published on H-Environment (August, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Anita Huizar-Hernández.
Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West.
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. Illustrations, maps. 180 pp.
$27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-9881-9; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-9882-6.
Lester H. Hunt. The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau: Ethics, Politics, and Nature. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 184 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-07902-1.
Reviewed by Graeme Pente (University of Colorado Boulder) Published on H-Environment (July, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54948
Andrew Taylor.
Two Years below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946.
Edited by Daniel Heidt and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2017. Illustrations, maps. 496 pp.
$37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88755-791-0.
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Jennifer Thomson's The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, vol. 10 no. 6 (2020)
Title: The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
Author: Jennifer Thomson
Commenters: Josiah Rector, David Stradling, Conevery Bolton Valencius, Natasha Zaretsky
Dear Colleagues-
I am pleased to announce a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews featuring Christine M. DeLucia, Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review vol. 10 no. 7 (2020)
Title: Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
Author: Christine M. DeLucia
Commentators: Joseph Hall, Ashley Elizabeth Smith, Maeve Kane, Thomas Wickman
Dear Colleagues-
I am pleased to announce a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews featuring Jakobina K. Arch's Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review vol. 10 no. 5 (2020)
Title: Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
Author: Jakobina K. Arch
Commentators: Ryan Tucker Jones, Noell Wilson, Carmel Finley
Editors: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues-
I am pleased to announce a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Joanna L. Dyl's Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review vol. 10 no. 4 (2020)
Title: Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
Author: Joanna L. Dyl
Commentators: Benjamin Johnson, Christopher M. Church, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Lindsey Passenger Wieck
