CFP: Military Landscapes
Military Landscapes
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CfP: Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms (ACLA 2018)
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Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
Hagley Library Grants/Fellowships awarded August 1, 2017
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware is pleased to announce the recipients of grants and fellowships awarded in August, 2017. Please note that the next deadline for applications for the exploratory and Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship is October 31th. The H. B.
CFP: Industrial French Food and Its Critics
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IX International Conference Alexander Von Humboldt (Yucatan 2018)
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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
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
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