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.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 11 March 2019 to 18 March 2019. 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
The Departments of History and Semiotics at the University of Tartu and KAJAK, the Estonian Centre for Environmental History at Tallinn University, with the support of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden are pleased to announce a four-day graduate school in environmental history hosted at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
The next 8th, 9th and 10th of April it will take place at the University of Santiago de Compostela the international conference "The Epoch of Space. State and New Perspectives", where researchers from around the world will meet to discuss the spatial turn of humanities.
The Equine History Collective (EHC) invites submissions for individual presentations for its second annual conference, to take place Nov. 13-15, 2019 at Cal Poly Pomona, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library. Submissions may investigate any equine in the past, including donkeys, mules, zebras and onagers. The theme of the conference is “Embodied Equines,” inviting papers that explore both how people have understood, shaped, sustained, and used equine bodies, and tried to capture and understand equine experiences.
The Boston Seminar on Early American History Presents:
Naming Plantations in the 17th-Century English Atlantic
Brian James Leech. The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit. Mining and Society Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. 376 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-943859-42-9.
Reviewed by Arn M. Keeling (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-Environment (October, 2018) Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger)
Kristin Reynolds, Nevin Cohen. Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City. Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 216 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-4950-3; $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-4949-7.
Reviewed by Robert Gioielli (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Environment (April, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)
Cheri Register. The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016. Illustrations. 288 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-87351-995-3.
Reviewed by Molly Rozum (University of South Dakota) Published on H-Environment (April, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)
Miranda Johnson. The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Illustrations. 248 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-060006-8; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-060002-0.
Reviewed by John Sandlos (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-Environment (February, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Jeff Karnicky. Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 246 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-9498-1.
Reviewed by Amy Coale (Florida State University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2019)
Title: Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands
Author: Andrew Stuhl
Commentators: Tina Adcock, Sverker Sörlin, Stephen Bocking, Andy Bruno
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 6 (2018)
Title: The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720
Author: Dagomar Degroot
Commentators: Nicholas J. Cunigan, James Bergman, Katrin Kleemann, Thomas Wickman
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 5 (2018)
Title: Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World
Author: Corey Ross
Commentators: Iftekhar Iqbal, Meredith McKittrick, Richard Tucker
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2018)
Title: The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China
Author: Ling Zhang
Commentators: Robert B. Marks, Maya Peterson, Yan Gao, Donald Worster
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
