Call for Contributions: edited book ‘Comparing the Copperbelts’
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January 15, 2019
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CFP | History of Science Society 2019 Annual Meeting
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January 7, 2019
Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships
Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships
December 11, 2018 - Boston Seminar on Environmental History
Boston Seminar on Environmental History
SCIENTIAE 2019 (6.12-15; 12.30) CFP2
This is the second call for papers for the 2019 Scientiae conference: to be held at Queen’s University, Belfast, June 12th-15th. (Proposal deadline: December 30th.)
Scientiae is the interdisciplinary conference on intellectual culture, 1400-1800. It is centred on, but not limited to, developments in the early-modern natural sciences. Philosophers, historians, literary scholars and others are invited to share their perspectives on this vital period. Belfast 2019 will be our 8th annual meeting.
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Arn M. Keeling
Keeling on Leech, 'The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit'
Brian James Leech. The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit. Mining and Society Series. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. 376 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-943859-42-9.
Reviewed by Arn M. Keeling (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-Environment (October, 2018) Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger)
Reviewer:
Robert Gioielli
Gioielli on Reynolds and Cohen, 'Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City'
Kristin Reynolds, Nevin Cohen. Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City. Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 216 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-4950-3; $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-4949-7.
Reviewed by Robert Gioielli (University of Cincinnati) Published on H-Environment (April, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)
Reviewer:
Molly Rozum
Rozum on Register, 'The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape'
Cheri Register. The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016. Illustrations. 288 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-87351-995-3.
Reviewed by Molly Rozum (University of South Dakota) Published on H-Environment (April, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)
Reviewer:
John Sandlos
Sandlos on Johnson, 'The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State'
Miranda Johnson. The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Illustrations. 248 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-060006-8; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-060002-0.
Reviewed by John Sandlos (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Published on H-Environment (February, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
Amy Coale
Coale on Karnicky, 'Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America'
Jeff Karnicky. Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 246 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-9498-1.
Reviewed by Amy Coale (Florida State University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Finney, 'Black Faces, White Spaces' & Zimring, 'Clean and White,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2017)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2017)
Author: Carolyn Finney
Title: Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Author: Carl A. Zimring
Title: Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
Commentators: Mary E. Mendoza, Kathryn Morse, Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., Traci Brynne Voyles
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Matteson, 'Forests in Revolutionary France,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 8 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 8 (2016)
Author: Kieko Matteson
Title: Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669-1848
Commentators: Caroline Ford, Catherine T. Dunlop, Richard Keyser
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
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