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Markers – Material Delineations of the Present (Friday, 20 May 2022 from 3–9 pm at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin) are eight different workshops in which scientists from the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), humanities scholars, and artists critically delve into how “Anthropocene forensics” is conducted.
Ökologische Vorstellungswelten der Verluste
The University of Genoa-Department of Antiquities, Philosophy, History (DAFIST), and the Unit 2 of the Research group Prin 2017-Inventing the Global Environment (https://www.inveglement.eu/
Melanie Kiechle, Kara Schlichting and Keith Mako Woodhouse have worked together for the last four years to generate and edit roundtables responding to new and exciting work in environmental history. Kara will continue as a co-editor for one more year, but Melanie and Keith are stepping down. We are looking for two new editors and hope members of this list will consider this opportunity.
Geoff Alexander.
America Goes Hawaiian: The Influence of Pacific Island Culture on the Mainland.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. Illustrations. 292 pp.
$49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6949-6. 
Ryan Hediger.
Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 352 pp.
$30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0654-2.
Christoph Irmscher.
The Poetics of Natural History.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Classics, 2019. 403 pp.
$39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-978805-86-6.
Reviewed by Megan Baumhammer (Princeton University) Published on H-Environment (April, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Sara Jensen Carr. The Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. x + 276 pp. $34.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4630-6.
Reviewed by Kendra Smith-Howard Published on H-Environment (April, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Gonzalo Lizarralde.
Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 328 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19810-3.
Dear Colleagues-
I am pleased to announce a new editon of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Andrew A. Robichaud's Animal City: The Domestication of America. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review vol. 11 no. 1 (2022)
Title: Animal City: The Domestication of America
Author: Andrew A. Robichaud
Commentators: Dawn Biehler, Frederick L. Brown, Joshua Specht, and Joanna Dean
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Perrin Selcer's The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth
Author: Perrin Selcer
Commenters: Megan Black, Sabine Höhler, Thomas Robertson, Libby Robin
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of the H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Thomas Wickman's Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast.
Roundtable Review vol. 10 no. 10 (2020)
Title: Snowshoe Country: An Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the Early American Northeast
Author: Thomas Wickman
Commenters: Jon T. Coleman, Rachel B. Herrmann, Andrew Lipman, Molly A. Warsh
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Stephen Milder's Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1963-1983. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Roundtable Review, vol. 10 no. 9 (2020)
Title: Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 1963-1983
Author: Stephen Milder
