John Wills. Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2006. xiv + 244 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87417-680-3.
Reviewed by Daniel Pope (Department of History, University of Oregon) Published on H-Energy (August, 2007)
Nuclear History as Environmental History
Elizabeth C. Economy. The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xiii + 337 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8014-8978-5.
Reviewed by Thomas Mullaney (Department of History, Stanford University) Published on H-Energy (March, 2007)
A Presentist Account of China's Environmental Crisis
Karl Boyd Brooks. Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xxvii + 290 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-98597-8.
Reviewed by Gillian Little (Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City) Published on H-Energy (December, 2006)
The Biggest Dam That Never Was
William Childs. The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. Montague Series in Oil and Business History. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 323 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58544-452-6.
Reviewed by Chris Jones (Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Energy (December, 2006)
