Kentucky Historical Society Research Fellowship Program Fall 2017 Applications
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is seeking applications for the KHS research fellowship program for the fall 2017 cycle.
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Recent Discussions
Thoreau and the Transcendentalists: Their Philosophy and Related Concerns
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Type:
Seminar
Date:
March 15, 2018 to March 20, 2018
Ralph Gomory Prize for Business History
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 - 2018 ACLA - The Oceanic Turn - ACLA - 3/29/18-4/1/18 - UCLA
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”*
Turnbull on Johnson, 'Carbon Nation:Fossil Fuels in the Making of American Culture' [x-posted from H-Energy]
Cross-posted from H-Energy
Pages
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