Call for Research Notes
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June 27, 2017
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CFP: ‘Global Ecological/Environmental Challenges and Local Responses’
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September 30, 2017
Call for Book Reviews
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July 10, 2017
Podcast: The Watery ally: military inundations in Dutch history
For centuries, the Dutch have fought against their arch-enemy: water. But, during the Dutch War of Independence in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch found an ally in their arch enemy. They used water as a weapon against the Spanish by planning and carrying out a number military inundations, intentionally flooding enormous swaths of land to stop or even defeat the enemy.
Call for Panelists: ASEH panel on creative environmental history assignments
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Recent Reviews
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Erik Loomis
Loomis on Speece, 'Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics'
Darren Frederick Speece. Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 384 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-99951-7.
Reviewed by Erik Loomis (University of Rhode Island)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
Bart Elmore
Elmore on Skrabec, 'Aluminum in America: A History'
Quentin R. Skrabec. Aluminum in America: A History. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. viii + 244 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9955-7.
Reviewed by Bart Elmore (Ohio State University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
Lukas Rieppel
Rieppel on Vetter, 'Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era'
Jeremy Vetter. Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era. INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. 512 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4453-9.
Reviewed by Lukas Rieppel (Brown University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Reviewer:
James Bergman
Bergman on Zilberstein, 'A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America'
Anya Zilberstein. A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 280 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-020659-8.
Reviewed by James Bergman (Michigan State University)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
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Steven G. Noll
Noll on Epperson, 'Roads through the Everglades: The Building of the Ingraham Highway, the Tamiami Trail and Conners Highway, 1914-1931'
Bruce D. Epperson. Roads through the Everglades: The Building of the Ingraham Highway, the Tamiami Trail and Conners Highway, 1914-1931. Jefferson: McFarland, 2016. 276 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6479-8.
Reviewed by Steven G. Noll (University of Florida)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2017)
Commissioned by David T. Benac
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Paul Sabin, 'The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 6 (2014)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 6 (2014)
Author: Paul Sabin
Title: The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
Commentators: Sarah Phillips, Patrick N. Allitt, Peter Shulman, Keith Woodhouse
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, 'Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 5 (2014)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 5 (2014)
Author: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Title: Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Commentators: Kristine Harper, Libby Robin, Dolly Jørgensen
Editor: Michael Egan
Peter S. Alagona, 'After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2014)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2014)
Author: Peter S. Alagona
Title: After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California
Commentators: Laura A. Watt, Philip Garone, Sean Kheraj
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
W. Jeffrey Bolster, 'The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2014)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2014)
Author: W. Jeffrey Bolster
Title: The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Commentators: Christine Keiner, Poul Holm, Vera Schwach, Helen M. Rozwadowski
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin