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.
We are editing an anthology about the origins of the modern food system, focused on the period between the 1870s and 1930s. The contributors already onboard all work at the intersection of food and environmental history.
Call for Papers
Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
Summer 2019 volume
Helsinki University Humanities Program, Environmental Humanities Forum
Spring 2019 Schedule
Talks broadcast LIVE via Twitter @helsinkienvhum
Talks VIDEO ARCHIVE: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/environment/video-archive-helsinki-envhum-forum/
ALL TIMES ARE EET (UTC+02:00 time zone)
February 19 (Tuesday)
14.15-15.45
Veronica Walker Vadillo
University of Helsinki, HCAS
Call for Submissions
Symposium: Railroads in Native America: Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Construction
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Environmental History Friends,
I come seeking Fellowship advice/tips/suggestions from the collective Environmental Studies hive mind.
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. 3 (2016)
Author: Catherine McNeur
Title: Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
Commentators: Clifton Hood, Melanie Kiechle, Matthew Gandy, Carl Zimring
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
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
