Registration Open for 2019 ASLE Conference
Paradise on Fire:
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Thirteenth Biennial Conference
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Recent Discussions
CFP: Workshop on "European Infrastructures and Transnational Protest Movements"
Call for Papers
European Infrastructures and Transnational Protest Movements
Call for Abstracts: ESEH Dissertation Database
Academic visibility is important these days, for untenured early career scholars especially. Yet, activities such as presenting and conferences and publishing articles are at times difficult to reconcile with finishing a dissertation.
New Books in Environmental Studies Seeking Podcast Hosts
New Books in Environmental Studies (https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/environmental-studies/) is currently seeking hosts interested in conducting interviews with authors of new books on the environment and environmental history. Hosting the channel is a good way to bring the work of environmental scholars to the attention of large audiences.
Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE)
On April 26-27, Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, will be hosting the Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE).
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Ruth Sandwell
Sandwell on Bivar, 'Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France'
Venus Bivar. Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4118-8.
Reviewed by Ruth Sandwell (University of Toronto) Published on H-Environment (June, 2019) Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger)
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
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Wakild, 'Revolutionary Parks,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2015)
Roundtable Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2015)
Author: Emily Wakild
Title: Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico's National Parks, 1910-1940
Commentators: Sterling Evans, Adrian Howkins, Curt Meine, Cynthia Radding
Editor: Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Garone, 'The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley,' Roundtable Review, Vol. 4, No. 10 (2014)
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
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