Reviews

Author: 
Sean Nixon
Reviewer: 
Annika A. Culver

Culver on Nixon, 'Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment, and Sport'

Sean Nixon. Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment, and Sport. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. x + 318 pp. $45.11 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01045-6

Reviewed by Annika A. Culver (Florida State University) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Molly P. Rozum
Reviewer: 
Anthony Carlson

Carlson on Rozum, 'Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies'

Molly P. Rozum. Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. 500 pp. $35.00 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-4962-2797-3; $35.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-2796-6; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-2671-6; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-8576-7.

Reviewed by Anthony Carlson (Combat Studies Institute) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Charlotte Rogers
Reviewer: 
Antonio Ortega Santos

Ortega Santos on Rogers, 'Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics'

Charlotte Rogers. Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. xiv + 340 pp. $39.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4266-7

Author: 
Daniel Vivian
Reviewer: 
Anne Mitchell Whisnant

Whisnant on Vivian, 'A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940'

Daniel Vivian. A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 362 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-41690-0

Author: 
Michael North, Pamela E. Selwyn
Reviewer: 
Penelope K. Hardy

Hardy on North and Selwyn, 'A World History of the Seas: From Harbour to Horizon'

Michael North, Pamela E. Selwyn. A World History of the Seas: From Harbour to Horizon. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xiv + 308 pp. $91.96 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-14544-3; $30.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-14543-6

Author: 
Vaclav Smil
Reviewer: 
Lee Vinsel

Vinsel on Smil, 'Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities'

Vaclav Smil. Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. Illustrations. xxv + 634 pp. $27.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-53968-5

Reviewed by Lee Vinsel (Virginia Tech) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Shana Lee Hirsch
Reviewer: 
Joshua McGuffie

McGuffie on Hirsch, 'Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin'

Shana Lee Hirsch. Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 232 pp. $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-295-74748-4; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74729-3; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74749-1.

Reviewed by Joshua McGuffie (University of California, Los Angeles) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Yajun Mo
Reviewer: 
Micah S. Muscolino

Muscolino on Mo, 'Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949'

Yajun Mo. Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949. Histories and Cultures of Tourism Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 318 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-6062-4; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-6104-1

Author: 
Lukas Ley
Reviewer: 
Suzanne Moon

Moon on Ley, 'Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang'

Lukas Ley. Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp. $27.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4529-6289-4; $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0888-1; $108.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-0887-4. 

Author: 
Megan Birk
Reviewer: 
Sara Egge

Egge on Birk, 'The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms'

Megan Birk. The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 300 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04438-0; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08645-8

Author: 
Susan M. Kooiman
Reviewer: 
Alicia Colson

Colson on Kooiman, 'Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes'

Susan M. Kooiman. Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Illustrations, tables. 240 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-20146-3; $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-268-20145-6; $34.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-268-20147-0.

Reviewed by Alicia Colson (Royal Geographical Society) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Alison Townsend
Reviewer: 
Madison Stump-Smith

Stump-Smith on Townsend, 'The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home'

Alison Townsend. The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 256 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33460-4

Reviewed by Madison Stump-Smith (Bowling Green State University) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Emily O'Gorman
Reviewer: 
Francisco Javier Bonilla

Bonilla on O'Gorman, 'Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin'

Emily O'Gorman. Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. xvii + 261 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74915-0.

Reviewed by Francisco Javier Bonilla (Carnegie Mellon University) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Eric Tagliacozzo
Reviewer: 
Jakobina Arch

Arch on Tagliacozzo, 'In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama'

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 Jakobina Arch (Whitman College) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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