Call for Papers: Southern Cultures Special Issue on “The Documentary Moment”
Guest Editor: Tom Rankin
Submission deadline: June 9, 2019
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Call for Applications: Visiting Fellowships 2019
The Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University http://www.history-global-development.net/ invites applications for fellowships for visiting scholars working on projects related to the history of policies, concepts, practices or debates related to development on local, national, regional or global levels.
Congress in Cuba on Science, Technology, and the Environment
The First International Congress on a Philosophy for Emancipation, Diversity, and the Life of the Planet and the Twenty-Second International Conference on An Alternative Political Science will be held in Havana, Cuba from November 19 to November 23, 2019.
Call for Papers - Delta and Coastal Cities - Shanghai Workshop
Call for Proposals
Workshop on Delta/Coastal Cities and Environmental Change
CFP- Communal Studies Association Annual Meeting
CALL FOR PAPERS
For the Annual Conference of The Communal Studies Association October 17 to 19, 2019 at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library Winterthur, Delaware - “Space, Place, and the Spirit of Material Culture”
The deadline for submission of proposals is May 20, 2019
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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
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
Manganiello, 'Southern Water, Southern Power,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 5 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 5 (2016)
Author: Christopher J. Manganiello
Title: Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
Commentators: Randal Hall, Matthew Evenden, Eve Vogel, Casey Cater
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Tyrrell, 'Crisis of the Wasteful Nation,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2016)
Author: Ian Tyrrell
Title: Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America
Commentators: Joseph E. Taylor III, Sarah Phillips, Scott Moranda, Harriet Ritvo
Editor: Christopher F. Jones