Call for Papers: Arcadia's Summer 2019 Volume.
Call for Papers
Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
Summer 2019 volume
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Helsinki University Humanities Program, Environmental Humanities Forum Spring 2019 Schedule (Live Broadcast via Twitter)
Helsinki University Humanities Program, Environmental Humanities Forum
Spring 2019 Schedule
Talks broadcast LIVE via Twitter @helsinkienvhum
Talks VIDEO ARCHIVE: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/environment/video-archive-helsinki-envhum-forum/
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February 19 (Tuesday)
14.15-15.45
Veronica Walker Vadillo
University of Helsinki, HCAS
Call for Submissions, Railroads in Native America: Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Construction
Call for Submissions
Symposium: Railroads in Native America: Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Construction
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Environmental Studies Research Fellowships
Environmental History Friends,
I come seeking Fellowship advice/tips/suggestions from the collective Environmental Studies hive mind.
Energy History Dinner at the ASEH Conference
Are you attending the ASEH conference on Columbus?
Do you have an interest in Energy History?
Are you free Friday night?
If your answer to all three questions is yes, then you should attend the Energy History dinner. To do so, please RSVP at: robertlifset@ou.edu.
Best,
Robert Lifset
University of Oklahoma
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Arn M. Keeling
Keeling on Leech, 'The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit'
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)
Reviewer:
Robert Gioielli
Gioielli on Reynolds and Cohen, 'Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City'
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)
Reviewer:
Molly Rozum
Rozum on Register, 'The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape'
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)
Reviewer:
John Sandlos
Sandlos on Johnson, 'The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State'
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
Reviewer:
Amy Coale
Coale on Karnicky, 'Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America'
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
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Brown, 'Plutopia,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 9 (2014)
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
Sellers, Crabgrass Crucible, Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 8 (2014)
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
Brady, 'War Upon the Land,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 7 (2014)
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
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