Welcome to the H-Environment network. Part of H-NET, the Humanities & Social Sciences Online initiative, H-Environment is supported by organizations of professional historians including the American Society for Environmental History and the European Society for Environmental History.
This year's Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting in New Orleans, 4-7 September, falls the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. We're marking the occasion with an open panel on elements and the elemental. Proposed papers are due to the submission portal by 1 February 2019. More info at https://www.4s2019.org/
For anyone working on histories at the intersection of health and environment, this conference is for you! We are looking for innovative work from scholars at all stages of their academic lives, studying these themes in varied geographic and temporal areas.
Open Panel – Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
September 4 -7, 2019 New Orleans, USA
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. 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
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
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
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
