Reviews

Author:

Dolly Kikon

Reviewer:

Matthew Shutzer

Shutzer on Kikon, 'Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (Culture, Place, and Nature)'

Dolly Kikon. Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (Culture, Place, and Nature). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 204 pp. $28.78 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74395-0.

Reviewed by Matthew Shutzer (University of California, Berkeley) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Nancy Langston

Reviewer:

Kerri Clement

Clement on Langston, 'Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in Anthropocene'

Nancy Langston. Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in Anthropocene. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2021. 208 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-68458-065-1.

Reviewed by Kerri Clement (University of Idaho) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57276

Author:

Jonathan Todd Hancock

Reviewer:

Caroline Greer

Greer on Hancock, 'Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America'

Jonathan Todd Hancock. Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 186 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6218-3; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6217-6.

Reviewed by Caroline Greer (George Mason University) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

David L. Haberman

Reviewer:

Cybelle Shattuck

Shattuck on Haberman, 'Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds'

David L. Haberman. Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2021. 330 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-05604-7.

Reviewed by Cybelle Shattuck (Western Michigan University) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57496

Author:

Gregory E. Smoak, ed.

Reviewer:

Brian Wright

Wright on Smoak, 'Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West'

Gregory E. Smoak, ed. Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2021. 240 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64769-034-2.

Author:

Bruce D. Jones

Reviewer:

Aria Finkelstein

Finkelstein on Jones, 'To Rule the Waves: How Control of the Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers'

Bruce D. Jones. To Rule the Waves: How Control of the Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers. New York: Scribner, 2021. 400 pp. $18.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-982127-26-8.

Reviewed by Aria Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova, eds.

Reviewer:

Taylor C. Zajicek

Zajicek on Moon and Breyfogle and Bekasova, 'Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History'

David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova, eds. Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. xxi + 343 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-912186-16-7.

Author:

Diana L. Ahmad

Reviewer:

Joseph Gaudet

Gaudet on Ahmad, 'Success Depends on the Animals: Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840–1869'

Diana L. Ahmad. Success Depends on the Animals: Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840–1869. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2016. 144 pp. $31.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-87417-997-2.

Reviewed by Joseph Gaudet (University of Michigan) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by David T. Benac (Western Michigan University)

Author:

David B. Williams

Reviewer:

Derek Lee Nelson

Nelson on Williams, 'Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound'

David B. Williams. Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74860-3.

Reviewed by Derek Lee Nelson (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56916

Author:

Benjamin I. Cook

Reviewer:

Antonia Sohns

Sohns on Cook, 'Drought: An Interdisciplinary Perspective'

Benjamin I. Cook. Drought: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 232 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17688-0; $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-17689-7; ISBN 978-0-231-54890-8.

Author:

David M. Wight

Reviewer:

Michael R. Adamson

Adamson on Wight, 'Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of the US Empire, 1967-1988'

David M. Wight. Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of the US Empire, 1967-1988. The United States in the World Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Illustrations, charts. xii + 347 pp. $32.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-1573-0; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-1572-3.

Reviewed by Michael R. Adamson (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Stephen Brooks, Andrea Olive, eds.

Reviewer:

Molly Rozum

Rozum on Brooks and Olive, 'Transboundary Environmental Governance across the World's Longest Border'

Stephen Brooks, Andrea Olive, eds. Transboundary Environmental Governance across the World's Longest Border. Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2018. 260 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88755-829-0.

Author:

Karl Kusserow, Alan C. Braddock

Reviewer:

Joseph Sussi

Sussi on Kusserow and Braddock, 'Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment'

Karl Kusserow, Alan C. Braddock. Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2018. 447 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-23700-9.

Reviewed by Joseph Sussi (University of Oregon) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Germán Vergara

Reviewer:

Viridiana Hernandez Fernandez

Hernandez Fernandez on Vergara, 'Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950'

Germán Vergara. Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 300 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-92397-2.

Reviewed by Viridiana Hernandez Fernandez (Ohio State University) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Giuliano Garavini

Reviewer:

David Wight

Wight on Garavini, 'The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century'

Giuliano Garavini. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 448 pp. $42.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-883283-6.

Reviewed by David Wight (University of North Carolina Greensboro) Published on H-Environment (May, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57377

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Shutzer on Kikon, 'Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (Culture, Place, and Nature)'

Clement on Langston, 'Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in Anthropocene'

Greer on Hancock, 'Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America'

Shattuck on Haberman, 'Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds'

Wright on Smoak, 'Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West'

Finkelstein on Jones, 'To Rule the Waves: How Control of the Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers'

Zajicek on Moon and Breyfogle and Bekasova, 'Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History'

Gaudet on Ahmad, 'Success Depends on the Animals: Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840–1869'

Nelson on Williams, 'Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound'

Sohns on Cook, 'Drought: An Interdisciplinary Perspective'

Adamson on Wight, 'Oil Money: Middle East Petrodollars and the Transformation of the US Empire, 1967-1988'

Rozum on Brooks and Olive, 'Transboundary Environmental Governance across the World's Longest Border'

Sussi on Kusserow and Braddock, 'Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment'

Hernandez Fernandez on Vergara, 'Fueling Mexico: Energy and Environment, 1850-1950'

Wight on Garavini, 'The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century'

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