The Tragedy of the Commons at 50: Context, Precedents, and Afterlife
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Rural History Yearbook 2019: In Between? Urban-Rural Relations, Tourism and Social Mobility in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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July 31, 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
Dunaway, 'Seeing Green,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 6 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 6 (2016)
Author: Finis Dunaway
Title: Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
Commentators: Keith Woodhouse, Lori Vermaas, Finn Arne Jørgensen, Marguerite S. Shaffer
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Manganiello, 'Southern Water, Southern Power,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 5 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 5 (2016)
Author: Christopher J. Manganiello
Title: Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
Commentators: Randal Hall, Matthew Evenden, Eve Vogel, Casey Cater
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Tyrrell, 'Crisis of the Wasteful Nation,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2016)
Author: Ian Tyrrell
Title: Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America
Commentators: Joseph E. Taylor III, Sarah Phillips, Scott Moranda, Harriet Ritvo
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
McNeur, 'Taming Manhattan,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2016)
Author: Catherine McNeur
Title: Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
Commentators: Clifton Hood, Melanie Kiechle, Matthew Gandy, Carl Zimring
Editor: Christopher F. Jones