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.
The BHC Doctoral Colloquium (DC) in Business History will be held on Thursday, March 14th, 2024. The participants will be invited for a welcome dinner on Wednesday, March 13th in Providence. During the DC, there will also be professional development sessions scheduled.
Typically limited to ten students, the colloquium is open to doctoral candidates who are pursuing dissertation research within the broad field of business history from any relevant discipline (e.g., from economic sociology, political science, cultural anthropology, or management, as well as history). Most participants are in
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware is pleased to announce the recipients of grants and fellowships awarded July 21, 2023. Please note that the next deadline for applications for the exploratory grants and Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship is October 31st. The H. B. du Pont Dissertation Fellowship deadline is November 15th. Here is the link on Hagley Museum and Library’s website for further info and to apply…. https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships.
Exploratory Grants:
Amy Edwards
Fellow
Higher
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Recent Reviews
Sumner, Jaclyn Ann. Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. xv + 226 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503636279.$28.00 (paper), ISBN 9781503637399.
Reviewed by
Justin Castro (Arkansas State University)
Published on
H-Environment (March, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Ogawa, Akihiro. Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan. Anthropology of Policy Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. 272 pp. $65.00 (e-book), ISBN 9781503635906.$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503635401.
Reviewed by
Paul Rubinson (Bridgewater State University)
Published on
H-Environment (March, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Narayanan, Yamini. Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India. South Asia in Motion Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. viii + 411 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781503634367.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9781503634374.
Asdal, Kristin; Huse, Tone. Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023. 280 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 9780262545525.
Reviewed by
Amanda Wells (University of Newcastle)
Published on
H-Environment (March, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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Recent Roundtable Reviews
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Lukas Rieppel's Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
Author: Lukas Rieppel
Contributors: Tim LeCain, Reed Gochberg, Alison Laurence, Elaine Ayers
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Charles Halvorson's Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection
Author: Charles Halvorson
Contributors: Christine Meisner Rosen, Jackie M. M. Gonzales, Leif Fredrickson
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Germán Vergara's Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950
Author: Germán Vergara
Contributors: Edward Beatty, Rocío Gomez, Claudia Leal, Victor Seow
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Andrew Watson's Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870-1920
Author: Andrew Watson
Contributors: Michael Dawson, Maureen G. Reed, Camden Burd, Jocelyn Thorpe
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting