Call for Book Chapters on Authoritarian Regimes and the Environmental History of Asia
Call for Book Chapters on Authoritarian Regimes and the Environmental History of Asia
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Workshop "Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in Environmental Science and Policy"
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September 30, 2017
NeMLA Roundtable: Ecocriticism in the 21st Century
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September 30, 2017
CFP: C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, CLIMATE, Albuquerque, NM, March 22-25, 2018
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September 15, 2017
CFP: Edward Kemp, Landscape Gardener, 1817-1891
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October 18, 2017
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Erik Loomis
Loomis on Speece, 'Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics'
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
Reviewer:
Bart Elmore
Elmore on Skrabec, 'Aluminum in America: A History'
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
Reviewer:
Lukas Rieppel
Rieppel on Vetter, 'Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era'
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
Reviewer:
James Bergman
Bergman on Zilberstein, 'A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America'
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
Reviewer:
Steven G. Noll
Noll on Epperson, 'Roads through the Everglades: The Building of the Ingraham Highway, the Tamiami Trail and Conners Highway, 1914-1931'
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
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Reid, 'The Sea is My Country,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2017)
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
Finney, 'Black Faces, White Spaces' & Zimring, 'Clean and White,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2017)
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
Matteson, 'Forests in Revolutionary France,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 8 (2016)
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
Sutter, 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies,' Roudtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 7 (2016)
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