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The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
22 February 2021 to 1 March 2021. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Environment. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / STUDIES
Brown University - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate
Solutions 2021-2023
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61104
On the next episode of Doc Chat, on March 4 at 3:30pm, NYPL's Meredith Mann is joined by Roberta J.M. Olson, Curator of Drawings at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, to discuss the early days of the wildlife conservation movement and the Audubon Society's campaign to stop the killing of birds for women's hats and clothing.
Doc Chat is a weekly, 30-minute program series from the New York Public Library that digs
Applications are invited for a funded PhD position at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast. This PhD project provides an opportunity to explore the historical interplay among modern energy life, public culture and consumer identity formation in late 20th century Britain.
Project: Before Energy Citizenship: Energy, Culture and Place-based Identities in the UK, 1950s–1990s
Type: Full Time PhD
Location: Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Funding for: UK and EU* students
*NI Department for the Economy funding regulations apply
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Recent Reviews
Carminati, Lucia. Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Illustrations. xv + 338 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780520385504.
Reviewed by
Atar David (University of Texas, Austin)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Pappas, Andrea. Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770. Northern Lights Series. London: Lund Humphries, 2023. Illustrations. 192 pp. $89.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781848226241.
Reviewed by
Vaughn Scribner (University of Central Arkansas)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Harrison, Christian S.. All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics. The Environment in Modern North America Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. xv + 249 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9780806192284.$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780806169323.
Reviewed by
Spencer McConkie (University of Oregon)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Brook, Timothy. The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. 256 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780691250403.
Reviewed by
Ian Miller (St. John's University)
Published on
H-Environment (April, 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 Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart's Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
Author: Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Dear Colleagues- Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Jonathan Robins's Oil Palm: A Global History. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Oil Palm: A Global History
Author: Jonathan Robins
Contributors: Erika Rappaport, Bronwen Everill, David Biggs
Editor: Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
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