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New episode of Exploring Environmental History Podcast
The latest episode of the Exploring Environmental History Podcast discusses the political and cultural influences of Indigenous fire use in Australia and the United States. This knowledge is often used to inform prescribed burning for fuel reduction, which has a long history in Australia but less so in the United States.
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SCIENTIAE: Early Modern Knowledge
June 12th – 15th, 2019 - Queen’s University, Belfast.
With plenary addresses by: Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame/Rome) & Rob Iliffe (Oxford):
Plenary panels led by: Subha Mukherji (Cambridge) & Marco Sgarbi, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, and Craig Martin (Venice).
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. 5, No. 3 (2015)
Author: Conevery Bolton Valencius
Title: The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Commentators: B. R. Cohen, Anne Hyde, Peter C. Mancall, Matthew Mulcahy
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2015)
Author: Carmel Finley
Title: All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management
Commentators: Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, Arthur F. McEvoy, Bo Poulsen, Michael J. Chiarappa
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2015)
Author: Emily Wakild
Title: Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910-1940
Commentators: Sterling Evans, Adrian Howkins, Curt Meine, Cynthia Radding
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 10 (2014)
Author: Philip Garone
Title: The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley
Commentators: Matthew Morse Booker, Patrick Carroll, Royal C. Gardner, Emily O'Gorman
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
