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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
David Wight
Wight on Garavini, 'The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century'
Giuliano Garavini. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 448 pp. $42.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-883283-6.
Reviewed by David Wight (University of North Carolina Greensboro) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57377
Reviewer:
Yixian Li
Li on Smith, 'The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China'
Nick R. Smith. The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China. Globalization and Community Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. 324 pp. $108.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4529-6544-4; $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1092-1.
Reviewed by Yixian Li (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer:
Natale Zappia
Zappia on MacDonald, 'Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park'
Douglas H. MacDonald.
Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. x + 230 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74220-5. 
Reviewer:
Shatam Ray
Ray on Sharma, 'Caste and Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics'
Mukul Sharma.
Caste and Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics.
New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxxvi + 296 pp.
$53.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-947756-2.
Reviewer:
Carleigh Beriont
Beriont on Alexander, 'America Goes Hawaiian: The Influence of Pacific Island Culture on the Mainland'
Geoff Alexander.
America Goes Hawaiian: The Influence of Pacific Island Culture on the Mainland.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. Illustrations. 292 pp.
$49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6949-6.
Recent Roundtable Reviews
McCammack, 'Landscapes of Hope,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2019)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2019)
Title: Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Author: Brian McCammack
Commentators: J.T. Roane, Simon Balto, Kimberly Ruffin, Colin Fisher
Editor: Keith Makoto Woodhouse
Aso, 'Rubber and the Making of Vietnam,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2019)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2019)
Title: Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975
Author: Michitake Aso
Commentators: Teresa Cribelli, Amy M. Hay, Stephen L. Harp, Pam McElwee
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Stuhl, 'Unfreezing the Arctic,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2019)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2019)
Title: Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands
Author: Andrew Stuhl
Commentators: Tina Adcock, Sverker Sörlin, Stephen Bocking, Andy Bruno
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Degroot, 'The Frigid Golden Age,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 6 (2018)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 6 (2018)
Title: The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720
Author: Dagomar Degroot
Commentators: Nicholas J. Cunigan, James Bergman, Katrin Kleemann, Thomas Wickman
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle