Submit your proposal for ASEH 2024 in Denver
ASEH 2024 Annual Conference
Denver, Colorado
April 3-7, 2024
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Recent Discussions
Energy History Working Group Meeting: Friday, June 9, 1:30 PM, EST
All are invited to the next meeting of the CHSTM Energy History Working Group:
Our next meeting is coming up this Friday, June 9 at 1:30 PM Eastern Time.
We will be discussing two papers on European energy history: Tobah Aukland-Peck, “Mineral landscapes: The Mine and British Modernism.” and Dr. Helge Wendt, “Building materials from coal-waste. An extension of the history of energy in the interwar period in France and Germany.”
REMINDER: ‘Africa and the Environment: Archives and Data in the Climate Emergency', 23 June 2023 - IN PERSON REGISTRATION CLOSES 8 JUNE
‘Africa and the Environment: Archives and Data in the Climate Emergency’, a one-day conference at SOAS, London, and online, 23 June 2023
Elements and Environment in the Middle Ages: A Multidisciplinary Workshop
Belfast, Thursday 29 June 2023
Queen’s University Belfast
The Graduate School, ROOM TR6
Programme:
9.15-9.30 Welcome
9.30-10.45 Session 1 ‘COSMOLOGY’
moderator: Ciarán Walsh
Matthew McMahon (Armagh Observatory): “Science and Spectacle; The History of Irish Astronomy Network”
Call for Panelists: ASEH 2024: Roundtable on Carcerality and the Environmental History Course
I am seeking 3-4 participants for a roundtable on how carcerality and the carceral state figure in teaching of environmental history at the undergraduate and graduate levels for the annual conference of the American Society for Environmental History in Denver in April 2024. In keeping with the conference theme, proposals focused on how carceral regimes function as extractive forces in marginalized and vulnerable communities are most welcome. Time period and geographic area open. Please send title and brief proposal (250 words) to Jeff Hall, Associate Professor of History at Queensborough
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Alessandro Antonello
Antonello on Dunbar-Hester, 'Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond'
Christina Dunbar-Hester.
Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 272 pp.
$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-81969-3; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-81971-6. 
Reviewer:
Sari Edelstein
Edelstein on Freed-Thall, 'Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons'
Hannah Freed-Thall.
Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons.
Modernist Latitudes Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Illustrations. 288 pp.
$140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19708-3; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19709-0.
Reviewer:
Jonathan Galka
Galka on Swanson, 'Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon'
Heather Anne Swanson.
Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon.
Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. Illustrations, maps. xv + 252 pp.
$105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-75038-5; $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-75039-2.
Reviewer:
Chelsea Davis
Davis on Gooding, 'On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c. 1830-1890'
Philip Gooding. On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c. 1830-1890. Cambridge Oceanic Histories Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 252 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-00-910074-8.
Reviewed by Chelsea Davis (Missouri State University) Published on H-Environment (June, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer:
Patrick Klinger
Klinger on Cressy, 'Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea'
David Cressy. Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 336 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-286339-3.
Reviewed by Patrick Klinger (Virginia Military Institute) Published on H-Environment (June, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58873
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Zallen, "American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 13, no. 1 (2023)
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Jeremy Zallen's American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: American Lucifers: THe Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865
Author: Jeremy Zallen
Contributors: Julie A. Cohn, Ann Daly, Nicolas Kenny, Matthew T. Huber
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle
Strang, "Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 12 no. 5 (2022)
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Cameron B. Strang's Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850
Author: Cameron B. Strang
Contributors: Elaine LaFay, Eleanora Rohland, Dan Rood, and Christopher D.E. Willoughby
Checker, "The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 12 no. 4 (2022)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables, featuring Melissa Checker's The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice
Author: Melissa Checker
Contributors: Hannah Knox, Steven H. Corey, Steven T. Moga
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Young, "Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement," H-Environment Roundtable vol. 12, no. 3 (2022)
Dear Colleagues:
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, featuring Phoebe S.K. Young's Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement
Author: Phoebe S.K. Young
Contributors: William P. Philpott, Marsha Weisiger, Robert Hoberman, Rachel S. Gross
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting