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ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY / STUDIES
Global Environmental Borderlands in the Age of Empire: A Joint Symposium in 2019-2020 Sponsored by the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University and Stanford University
The Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University in Palo Alto solicit proposals for papers that explore the environmental history of borderlands in the early modern world.
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
Paul David Blanc. Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 328 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-20466-7.
Reviewed by Amy Hay (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) Published on H-Environment (January, 2018) Commissioned by David T. Benac
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
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 9 (2014)
Author: Kate Brown
Title: Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Commentators: Paul Josephson, Kristen Iversen, Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 8 (2014)
Author: Christopher C. Sellers
Title: Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Commentators: Andrew G. Kirk, Kara Schlichting, Michael Rawson
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 7 (2014)
Author: Lisa Brady
Title: War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Commentators: Matthew Dennis, Ann Norton Greene, Megan Kate Nelson
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
