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The 2017 Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference has been awarded to two recipients who will share the prize: Johan Mathew of Rutgers University for his book, Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea (University of California Press, 2016) and Mark R. Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte for his book, Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) at the Business History Conference annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA on April 1, 2017.
CfP - The Oceanic Turn - ACLA
March 29 - April 1, 2018 at UCLA
Abstracts due September 23, 2017 *via ACLA website*
<https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting>.
Panel Co-Organizers
Christina Gerhardt - Associate Professor, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Teresa Shewry - Associate Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara
*“The Oceanic Turn”*
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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
