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Call for Proposals
International Symposium:
Drought, Famine and Portuguese Colonialism in Africa – History and Memory (19th-21st centuries)
Abstracts due: May 16, 2022
CFP: Jesuit Studies panels at the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, 27-30 October 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The submission period has been extended.
Coming up on 20-21 April! Two book launch events for Animal Remains with panelists Michael Lawrence, Dinesh Wadiwel, and Robert McKay (20 April) along with Sundhya Walther, Peter Sands, Dolly Jørgensen, Gitte Westergaard, Jane Desmond, and the artist duo Snaebjornsdottir-Wilson (21 April).
Register at the Eventbrite links below.
20 April: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animal-remains-book-launch-event-1-tickets-315373971037
A Decent Home: The 1950s Suburban Boom on Long Island
Author: Michael Glass, Boston College
Comment: Rebecca K. Marchiel, University of Mississippi
Tuesday 26 April
5:15 PM EDT
Summer Retreat Program at Shin Pond, Maine
for Animal/Humane/Environmental Studies
Giuliano Garavini. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 448 pp. $42.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-883283-6.
Reviewed by David Wight (University of North Carolina Greensboro) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57377
Nick R. Smith. The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China. Globalization and Community Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. 324 pp. $108.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4529-6544-4; $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1092-1.
Reviewed by Yixian Li (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Douglas H. MacDonald.
Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. x + 230 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74220-5. 
Mukul Sharma.
Caste and Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics.
New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxxvi + 296 pp.
$53.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-947756-2.
Geoff Alexander.
America Goes Hawaiian: The Influence of Pacific Island Culture on the Mainland.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. Illustrations. 292 pp.
$49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6949-6.
Roundtable Review, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2018)
Author: Mark Stoll
Title: Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Commentators: Lisa H. Sideris, Constance M. Furey, Joseph Kip Kosek, Mark Fiege
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2017)
Director: Sarita Siegel and Gregg Mitman
Title: The Land Beneath Our Feet
Commentators: Nancy Jacobs, Finis Dunaway, Edward R. Carr
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2017)
Author: Richard S. Newman
Title: Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Commentators: Stephanie Malin, Michelle Mart, Elizabeth D. Blum
Editor: Michael Egan
Roundtable Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2017)
Author: Joshua L. Reid
Title: The Sea is My Country: the Maritime World of the Makahs
Commentators: William Bauer, Jr., Bathsheba Demuth, Edward D. Melillo, Helen M. Rozwadowski
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
