Welcome to the H-Environment network. Part of H-NET, the Humanities & Social Sciences Online initiative, H-Environment is supported by organizations of professional historians including the American Society for Environmental History and the European Society for Environmental History.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 17 December 2018 to 24 December 2018. 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
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.
NAVSA 2019: MEDIA. GENRE. THE GENERIC.
COLUMBUS, OHIO
OCTOBER 17-19, 2019
Organizers: Seth Murray (North Carolina State University) and Cosmin Ivascu (Babeş-Bolyai University)
Rural History 2019, 10-13 September 2019, Paris, France
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is seeking applications for the KHS research fellowship program for the spring 2019 cycle. The program provides funding for senior and emerging scholars, including doctoral students, whose research focuses on Kentucky or larger regional-related topics – visit https://history.ky.gov/resources/catalogs-research-tools/ for more information on collections.
REOPENING THE “OPENING OF JAPAN” - International Graduate Conference at the University of Oxford
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)
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)
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)
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
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
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2016)
Author: Gregory T. Cushman
Title: Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History
Commentators: Hugh Gorman, John Soluri, Ryan Tucker Jones, Christian Brannstrom
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2016)
Author: George Colpitts
Title: Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780–1882
Commentators: Claire Campbell, Andrew Isenberg, Ruth Sandwell, Thomas Finger
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 10 (2015)
Author: Ashley Carse
Title: Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal
Commentators: Anne N. Greene, Marixa Lasso, Chandra Mukerji, Daniel Macfarlane
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 9 (2015)
Author: Christopher F. Jones
Title: Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America
Commentators: Sarah Mittlefehldt, Gwen Ottinger, Stephanie LeMenager, Sara B. Pritchard
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
