The NEH-Hagley Fellowship on Business, Culture, and Society supports residencies at the Hagley Library in Wilmington, Delaware for junior and senior scholars whose projects make use of Hagley’s substantial research collections. Scholars must have completed all requirements for their doctoral degrees by the February 15 application deadline. In accordance with NEH requirements, these fellowships are restricted to United States citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years. These fellowships are made possible by support from the National
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POWER UP: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN ELECTRICITY
TRISH KAHLE
Assistant Professor
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University, Qatar
The history of American electricity is often told through the experiences of engineers and managers, but these were only a handful of the many thousands of workers who built, maintained, and ran electrical utility systems in the United States. The linemen, clerks, pipe fitters, marketers, secretaries, and many, many others who do the work to keep the power on have little space in the literature. In fact, we have collectively learned not
Call for Proposals
“Real Estate Development and the Built Environment”
Fall Conference at the Hagley Library, Wilmington, DE
November 1, 2024
Despite the central role that real estate development plays in the physical form and geography of buildings, cities, and suburbs in market economies, scholars have engaged in relatively little research on the inner workings of its figures and processes in relation to the built environment. Historical research is abundant on architects and landscape architects, urban planners, and public policy, as well as on ideas: theories about cities and suburbs
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Recent Reviews
Sumner, Jaclyn Ann. Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. xv + 226 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503636279.$28.00 (paper), ISBN 9781503637399.
Reviewed by
Justin Castro (Arkansas State University)
Published on
H-Environment (March, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Ogawa, Akihiro. Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan. Anthropology of Policy Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. 272 pp. $65.00 (e-book), ISBN 9781503635906.$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503635401.
Reviewed by
Paul Rubinson (Bridgewater State University)
Published on
H-Environment (March, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Narayanan, Yamini. Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India. South Asia in Motion Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. viii + 411 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503634367.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9781503634374.
Asdal, Kristin; Huse, Tone. Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023. 280 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262545525.
Reviewed by
Amanda Wells (University of Newcastle)
Published on
H-Environment (March, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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Recent Roundtable Reviews
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Lukas Rieppel's Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
Author: Lukas Rieppel
Contributors: Tim LeCain, Reed Gochberg, Alison Laurence, Elaine Ayers
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Charles Halvorson's Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection
Author: Charles Halvorson
Contributors: Christine Meisner Rosen, Jackie M. M. Gonzales, Leif Fredrickson
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Germán Vergara's Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950
Author: Germán Vergara
Contributors: Edward Beatty, Rocío Gomez, Claudia Leal, Victor Seow
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Andrew Watson's Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920
Author: Andrew Watson
Contributors: Michael Dawson, Maureen G. Reed, Camden Burd, Jocelyn Thorpe
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting