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Reviewer:
Jack Klempay
Klempay on Barak, 'Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization'
On Barak. Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 344 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-31072-8.
Reviewed by Jack Klempay (Princeton University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer:
Dustin Meier
Meier on Blackford, 'Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change'
Mansel G. Blackford.
Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016. Illustrations. 256 pp.
$69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-1314-8. 
Reviewed by Dustin Meier (The Ohio State University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer:
Chau J. Kelly
Kelly on Phillips, 'An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun'
Kristin D. Phillips.
An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun.
Framing the Global Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. Illustrations. 207 pp.
$28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-03837-1; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03836-4.
Reviewer:
Brian Spivey
Spivey on Eisenman, 'Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune'
Joshua Eisenman.
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxxii + 436 pp.
$35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18667-4.
Reviewer:
Sharika Crawford
Crawford on Fielding, 'The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic'
Russell Fielding.
The Wake of the Whale: Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. 342 pp. Ill.
$27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98637-4.
Reviewed by Sharika Crawford (United States Naval Academy) Published on H-Environment (January, 2021) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Matteson, 'Forests in Revolutionary France,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 8 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 8 (2016)
Author: Kieko Matteson
Title: Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669-1848
Commentators: Caroline Ford, Catherine T. Dunlop, Richard Keyser
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Sutter, 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies,' Roudtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 7 (2016)
Roudtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 7 (2016)
Author: Paul Sutter
Title: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South
Commentators: Jay Turner, Conevery Bolton Valencius, Claire Campbell, Steven Stoll
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Dunaway, 'Seeing Green,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 6 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 6 (2016)
Author: Finis Dunaway
Title: Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
Commentators: Keith Woodhouse, Lori Vermaas, Finn Arne Jørgensen, Marguerite S. Shaffer
Editor: Christopher F. Jones
Manganiello, 'Southern Water, Southern Power,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 5 (2016)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 6, No. 5 (2016)
Author: Christopher J. Manganiello
Title: Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
Commentators: Randal Hall, Matthew Evenden, Eve Vogel, Casey Cater
Editor: Christopher F. Jones