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Author:

Melanie A. Kiechle

Reviewer:

Tina M. Peabody

Peabody on Kiechle, 'Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America'

Melanie A. Kiechle. Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. 352 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74193-2.

Reviewed by Tina M. Peabody (University at Albany, SUNY) Published on H-Envirohealth (December, 2018) Commissioned by Michitake Aso (University at Albany, SUNY)

Author:

Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner

Reviewer:

Leif Fredrickson

Fredrickson on Markowitz and Rosner, 'Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children'

Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner. Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 328 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-28393-0.

Reviewed by Leif Fredrickson (University of Virginia) Published on H-Envirohealth (February, 2018) Commissioned by Michitake Aso

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Author:

Rachel Carson

Reviewer:

Dawn Biehler

Biehler and Davis and Hay on Carson, 'Silent Spring'

Rachel Carson. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. xix + 378 pages. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-618-25305-0; $15.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-618-24906-0.

Reviewed by Dawn Biehler (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and Frederick Davis (Purdue University) and Amy Hay (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) Published on H-Envirohealth (December, 2017) Commissioned by Michitake Aso

Author:

Kendra Smith-Howard

Reviewer:

Nicole Welk-Joerger

Welk-Joerger on Smith-Howard, 'Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900'

Kendra Smith-Howard. Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 240 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-989912-8.

Reviewed by Nicole Welk-Joerger (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Envirohealth (October, 2017) Commissioned by Michitake Aso

Author:

Richard S. Newman

Reviewer:

Raechel Lutz

Lutz on Newman, 'Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present'

Richard S. Newman. Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii + 306 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-537483-4.

Reviewed by Raechel Lutz (Rutgers) Published on H-Envirohealth (August, 2017) Commissioned by Michitake Aso

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