MHR NS 2 Call for Papers: Disaster in American History
MHR NS 2 Call for Papers: Disaster in American History
Deadline: 15 July 2020
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Reminder - June 5 deadline (extended): CFP Animal History & the Common Good
Due June 5 (date extended)
Chapter proposals invited for an edited collection, Animal History and the Common Good.
CFP: Ocean HSTM papers for the 2021 Prague International Congress of History of Science and Technology
The International Commission for the History of Oceanography is seeking abstract submissions for two proposed sessions at the 2021 Prague International Congress of History of Science and Technology (for details, see: https://www.ichst2021.org/). Please send proposed abstracts or questions by Friday May 22nd to Penelope Hardy at phardy@uwlax.edu or Helen Rozwadowski at helen.rozwadowski@uconn.edu.
Call for Papers: YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Issue no. 2 (2020) | Deadline: July 19, 2020
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies invites contributions for its issue no. 2 (2020). YILLIK is a peer-reviewed, open access, international academic journal featuring cutting-edge research on Istanbul’s past and present, published by the Istanbul Research Institute in print and online (via DergiPark).
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Venus Bivar
Bivar on Aistara, 'Organic Sovereignties: Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade'
Guntra A. Aistara.
Organic Sovereignties: Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xvi + 263 pp.
$30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74311-0. 
Reviewed by Venus Bivar (Washington University St Louis) Published on H-Environment (July, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (University of Idaho)
Reviewer:
Tony Nuspl
Nuspl on Martini, 'Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases'
Edwin A. Martini, ed. Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases. Donald R. Ellegood International Publications Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-99465-9.
Reviewed by Tony Nuspl (Rogers State University, Tulsa Peace Fellowship) Published on H-Environment (July, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (University of Idaho)
Reviewer:
Ingrid Ockert
Ockert on Buss, 'Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age'
Jared S. Buss. Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017. Illustrations. xiii + 321 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-5443-8.
Reviewed by Ingrid Ockert (Science History Institute) Published on H-Environment (July, 2020) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (University of Idaho)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54728
Reviewer:
Kathleen Sheppard
Sheppard on Berghoff and Korte and Schneider and Harvie, 'The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600 -2000'
Hartmut Berghoff, Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, Christopher Harvie, eds.
The Making of Modern Tourism: The Cultural History of the British Experience, 1600 -2000.
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 310 pp.
$149.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-333-97114-7.
Reviewer:
Nevcihan Ozbilge
Ozbilge on Estes and Dhillon, 'Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement'
Nick Estes, Jaskiran Dhillon, eds.
Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement.
Indigenous Americas Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Illustrations. ix + 420 pp.
$100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-0535-4; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0536-1.
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Siegel and Mitman, 'The Land Beneath Our Feet,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2017)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2017)
Director: Sarita Siegel and Gregg Mitman
Title: The Land Beneath Our Feet
Commentators: Nancy Jacobs, Finis Dunaway, Edward R. Carr
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Newman, 'Love Canal,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2017)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2017)
Author: Richard S. Newman
Title: Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Commentators: Stephanie Malin, Michelle Mart, Elizabeth D. Blum
Editor: Michael Egan
Reid, 'The Sea is My Country,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2017)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2017)
Author: Joshua L. Reid
Title: The Sea is My Country: the Maritime World of the Makahs
Commentators: William Bauer, Jr., Bathsheba Demuth, Edward D. Melillo, Helen M. Rozwadowski
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Finney, 'Black Faces, White Spaces' & Zimring, 'Clean and White,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2017)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2017)
Author: Carolyn Finney
Title: Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Author: Carl A. Zimring
Title: Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
Commentators: Mary E. Mendoza, Kathryn Morse, Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., Traci Brynne Voyles
Editor: Christopher F. Jones