New Network Editor
Dear H-Environment,
Please join us in welcoming Ozgur Gondiken as our newest network editor! Here is a little about Ozgur:
env-roundtable-12-2.pdf 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.
Recent Discussions
Online Event – Intersectional Environmental Feminisms in the Digital Space - August 5th
Intersectional Environmental Feminisms in the Digital Space
Friday, 5 August 2022, 11am EDT
Watch on Live on YouTube
Sponsored by Network in Canadian History and Environment and Environmental History Now
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Call for Submissions: 2023 St Andrews Article Prize
The ESEH welcomes submissions for the 2023 St Andrews Article Prize in European Environmental History.
The Rachel Carson Center announces Springs, a new open-access journal
The Rachel Carson Center (RCC) is pleased to announce the launch of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review. Our new open-access online publication features peer-reviewed articles, creative nonfiction, and artistic contributions that showcase the work of the RCC and its community across the world. In the spirit of Rachel Carson, Springs publishes sharp writing with an impact.
CFP: Graduate Conference on Food, Consumption and Climate Change
Food, Consumption and Climate Change
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Lee Vinsel
Vinsel on Smil, 'Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities'
Vaclav Smil.
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. Illustrations. xxv + 634 pp.
$27.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-53968-5. 
Reviewed by Lee Vinsel (Virginia Tech) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer:
Joshua McGuffie
McGuffie on Hirsch, 'Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin'
Shana Lee Hirsch. Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 232 pp. $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-295-74748-4; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74729-3; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74749-1.
Reviewed by Joshua McGuffie (University of California, Los Angeles) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer:
David D. Vail
Vail on Jones, 'Wild Capital: Nature's Economic and Ecological Wealth'
Barbara K. Jones.
Wild Capital: Nature's Economic and Ecological Wealth.
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019. 306 pp.
$60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68340-104-9.
Reviewer:
Micah S. Muscolino
Muscolino on Mo, 'Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949'
Yajun Mo.
Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949.
Histories and Cultures of Tourism Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 318 pp.
$125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-6062-4; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-6104-1.
Reviewer:
Suzanne Moon
Moon on Ley, 'Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang'
Lukas Ley.
Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp.
$27.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4529-6289-4; $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0888-1; $108.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-0887-4.
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Price, "Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 12, no. 2 (2022)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Jenny Price's Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Stop Saving the Planet! An Environmentalist Manifesto
Author: Jenny Price
Contributors: Sarah Dimick, Pollyanna Rhee, Nicole Welk-Joerger, Rob Gioielli
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
O'Gorman, "Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 12, no. 1 (2022)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Emily O'Gorman's Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
Author: Emily O'Gorman
Contributors: Nancy Langston, Sarah Hamilton, Ben Wilkie, Diogo de Carvalho Cabral
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Higuchi, "Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis" H-Environment Roundtable vol. 11, no. 5 (2021)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Toshihiro Higuchi's Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis
Author: Toshihiro Higuchi
Commenters: Sumiko Hatakeyama, Stephen Macekura, Rachel Emma Rothschild, Perrin Selcer
Greer, "Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 11 no. 4 (2021)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Kirsten A. Greer's Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire
Author: Kirsten A. Greer
Commentators: Robert M. Wilson, Vinita Damodaran, Maria Lane, Philip Howell, Ruth A. Morgan
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
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