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TRANSPOSITIONES. Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Culture Studies
Thematic focus of the 2nd issue:
Intraconnectedness and World-making:
Technologies, Bodies, Matters
he following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
15 November 2021 to 22 November 2021. 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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The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History offers a forum for the discussion of environmental history research and new publications. This semester, our topics are either European or global.
Elisa Tizzoni will present her research on the environmental policies of the European Court of Auditors, and we will discuss the new Handbook on European Environmental History edited by Anna Katharina Wöbse und Patrick Kupper.
James Tackach.
Lincoln and the Natural Environment.
Concise Lincoln Library Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 160 pp.
$24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8093-3698-2. 
Robert M. Myers.
Reconciling Nature: Literary Representations of the Natural, 1876-1945.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. Illustrations. 234 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7679-7.
John L. Smith. Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West's Public Lands. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2020. 342 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-948908-91-7.
Reviewed by Joseph Taylor (Simon Fraser University) Published on H-Environment (November, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
David P. D. Munns, Kärin Nickelsen.
Far beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age.
Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. 216 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4654-0.
Jonathan D. Anzalone.
Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920-1980.
Environmental History of the Northeast Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. Illustrations. x + 279 pp.
$32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-364-2.
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
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
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Andy Horowitz's Katrina: A History, 1915-2015. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
Author: Andy Horowitz
Commenters: Robin McDowell, Craig Colten, Lynnell Thomas, Leslie M. Harris
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Thomas M. Lekan's Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti
Author: Thomas M. Lekan
Commentators: Chris Conte, Corinna Treitel, Jeff Schauer, Julie Weiskopf
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
