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Call for Papers, Congress of Rural History, panel "Dreaming California"
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The Nature of Health, The Health of Nature: Perspectives from History and the Humanities
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ESEH Research Grant 2018: Call For Proposals
The ESEH Research Grant is aimed at offering doctoral students and recent post-docs funding useful to complete their research in environmental history.
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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
Colpitts, 'Pemmican Empire,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2016)
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
Carse, 'Beyond the Big Ditch,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 10 (2015)
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
Jones, 'Routes of Power,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 9 (2015)
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
Davis, 'Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 8 (2015)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 8 (2015)
Author: Frederick Rowe Davis
Title: Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
Commentators: David Hecht, Rachel Rothschild, Max Liboiron, Jody Roberts
Editor: Michael Egan