Peter Thilly.
The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. xii + 298 pp.
$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-2886-1; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3410-7. 
Michael A. Verney. A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic. American Beginnings, 1500-1900 Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp.
Daniel Leonhard Purdy. Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe. Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 420 pp. Free (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-5975-8; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-5974-1; $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5973-4.
Reviewed by Irmy Schweiger (Stockholm University) Published on H-Water (May, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
David Cressy. Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 336 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-286339-3.
Reviewed by Michael W. Jung (Saarland University) Published on H-Water (May, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58566
Philip Gooding. On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c. 1830-1890. Cambridge Oceanic Histories Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 252 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-00-910074-8.
Reviewed by Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi (Princeton University) Published on H-Water (April, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Erik Reardon. Managing the River Commons: Fishing and New England's Rural Economy. Environmental History of the Northeast Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. 192 pp.
Sean Connolly.
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World.
New York: Basic Books, 2022. 544 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-09395-3.
Reviewed by Cian T. McMahon (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Published on H-Water (March, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Eric Tagliacozzo. In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 512 pp. Ill. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-14682-9.
Reviewed by Jonas Rüegg (University of Zürich) Published on H-Water (March, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58318
Ranae Lenor Hanson. Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 200 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1097-6.
Reviewed by Kristin Brig-Ortiz (Johns Hopkins University) Published on H-Water (February, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58357
Faisal Husain.
Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 264 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-754727-4.
Reviewed by Camille Cole (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Water (January, 2023) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Ruth Mostern. The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 376 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-23833-4.
Reviewed by Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design) Published on H-Water (November, 2022) Commissioned by Yan Gao
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58286
R. Lawrence Swanson, Malcolm J. Bowman. Between Stony Brook Harbor Tides: The Natural History of a Long Island Pocket Bay. Excelsior Editions Series. Albany: State University of New Press, 2016. Illustrations. 152 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-6234-9; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6233-2.
Nancy Langston. Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 312 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21298-3.
Reviewed by Melissa Charenko (Michigan State University, Lyman Briggs College) Published on H-Water (June, 2019) Commissioned by Jonathan Wlasiuk (Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University)
Debjani Bhattacharyya. Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps. 254 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42574-2.
Reviewed by Rohan D'Souza (Kyoto University) Published on H-Water (March, 2019) Commissioned by Aditya Ramesh (SOAS, London)
Jim Clifford. West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London's Industrialized Marshland, 1839-1914. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. 240 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7748-3423-0.
Reviewed by Carry Van Lieshout (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Water (March, 2019) Commissioned by Aditya Ramesh (SOAS, London)
