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CFA: 2019-2020 Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine Fellowships (Deadline December 18, 2018)
Discussion published by Lawrence Kessler on Wednesday, October 17, 2018
The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed. Opportunities include:
Session: Epidemics, History and the Environment: Crossing Academic Boundaries
Intended for Southeast Asian and Japanese Doctoral Students
DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 15
The Laurier Archives at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo ON is pleased to announce the call for the 6th annual Joan Mitchell Travel Award. The Award of $1000 supports PhD candidates or established scholars who wish to travel to the Laurier Archives to conduct research.
Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication platform for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society.
Brian James Leech. The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit. Mining and Society Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. 376 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-943859-42-9.
Reviewed by Arn M. Keeling (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-Environment (October, 2018) Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger)
Kristin Reynolds, Nevin Cohen. Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City. Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 216 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-4950-3; $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-4949-7.
Reviewed by Robert Gioielli (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Environment (April, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)
Cheri Register. The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016. Illustrations. 288 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-87351-995-3.
Reviewed by Molly Rozum (University of South Dakota) Published on H-Environment (April, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)
Miranda Johnson. The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Illustrations. 248 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-060006-8; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-060002-0.
Reviewed by John Sandlos (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-Environment (February, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Jeff Karnicky. Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 246 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-9498-1.
Reviewed by Amy Coale (Florida State University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 5 (2018)
Title: Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World
Author: Corey Ross
Commentators: Iftekhar Iqbal, Meredith McKittrick, Richard Tucker
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2018)
Title: The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China
Author: Ling Zhang
Commentators: Robert B. Marks, Maya Peterson, Yan Gao, Donald Worster
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2018)
Title: The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
Author: Courtney Fullilove
Commentators: Deborah Fitzgerald, B. R. Cohen, Jenny Leigh Smith, Jeremy Vetter
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2018)
Title: Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection
Author: Edward Dallam Melillo,
Commentators: Ian Tyrrell, Jared Farmer, Tiago Saraiva
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
