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The H-Environment Roundtable Reviews provide multiple perspectives on books, and allow authors the opportunity to respond. This format is intended as a conversation that invites discussion of recent scholarship.
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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
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Rebecca J.H. Woods' The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
Author: Rebecca J. H. Woods
Contributors: Gabriel N. Rosenberg, Emily Pawley, Abraham Gibson
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Sharika D. Crawford's The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Author: Sharika D. Crawford
Contributors: Elizabeth Hennessy, Karl Offen, Russell Fielding, Mary Draper
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Ian M. Miller's Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China
Author: Ian M. Miller
Contributors: Jonathan Schlesinger, Ruth Mostern, Keith Pluymers
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Megan Black's The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
Author: Megan Black
Contributors: Shellen X. Wu, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, Brian Leech, Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new editon of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Dale Barbour's Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1930. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1930
Author: Dale Barbour
Contributors: Sarah Schrank, Bruce Kidd, Ken Cruikshank, Daniel Ross
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Jeremy Zallen's American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: American Lucifers: THe Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865
Author: Jeremy Zallen
Contributors: Julie A. Cohn, Ann Daly, Nicolas Kenny, Matthew T. Huber
Editor: Melanie A. Kiechle