Reviews

Author: 
Anna Sailer
Reviewer: 
Satya Shikha Chakraborty

Chakraborty on Sailer, 'Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s-1930s'

Anna Sailer. Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s-1930s. Critical Perspectives in South Asian History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xiii + 23 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-23353-9

Author: 
Merlin Chowkwanyun
Reviewer: 
Tamara Venit-Shelton

Venit-Shelton on Chowkwanyun, 'All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health'

Merlin Chowkwanyun. All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health. Studies in Social Medicine Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations. x + 336 pp.

Author: 
Michael A. Verney
Reviewer: 
Abby Mullen

Mullen on Verney, 'A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic'

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.

Author: 
Steve Estes
Reviewer: 
Elexis Trinity Williams Gray

Williams Gray on Estes, 'Surfing the South: The Search for Waves and the People Who Ride Them'

Steve Estes. Surfing the South: The Search for Waves and the People Who Ride Them. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 201 pp. $19.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6777-5

Author: 
Ben Towle
Reviewer: 
Brian Matthew Jordan

Jordan on Towle, 'Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat'

Ben Towle. Four-Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat. Annapolis: Dead Reckoning, 2021. 107 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-68247-416-7

Reviewed by Brian Matthew Jordan (Sam Houston State University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Julia O'Malley
Reviewer: 
Sasha Gora

Gora on O'Malley, 'The Whale and the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing, and Community in Alaska'

Julia O'Malley. The Whale and the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing, and Community in Alaska. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 176 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74614-2

Author: 
Noel Keough, Geoff Ghitter
Reviewer: 
Jeff Manuel

Manuel on Keough and Ghitter, 'Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada's Petro-City'

Noel Keough, Geoff Ghitter. Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada's Petro-City. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2021. Illustrations. 256 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77385-248-5.

Reviewed by Jeff Manuel (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) Published on H-Environment (January, 2023) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Kenneth Warren
Reviewer: 
Trish Kahle

Kahle on Warren, 'Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry'

Kenneth Warren. Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 320 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6621-0

Author: 
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Reviewer: 
Lorena Campuzano Duque

Campuzano Duque on Nobbs-Thiessen, 'Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present'

Ben Nobbs-Thiessen. Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 342 pp. $37.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5610-6

Author: 
Michel Anctil
Reviewer: 
Katharina Steiner

Steiner on Anctil, 'Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms'

Michel Anctil. Luminous Creatures: The History and Science of Light Production in Living Organisms. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. 488 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5312-5.

Reviewed by Katharina Steiner (University of Geneva) Published on H-Environment (December, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Kim De Wolff, Rina C. Faletti, Ignacio López-Calvo, eds.
Reviewer: 
Kunyan Zheng

Zheng on De Wolff and Faletti and López-Calvo, 'Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures'

Kim De Wolff, Rina C. Faletti, Ignacio López-Calvo, eds. Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Illustrations. 270 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-38045-5.

Reviewed by Kunyan Zheng (Trinity College Dublin) Published on H-Environment (December, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Carol Lynn McKibben
Reviewer: 
Michael Weeks

Weeks on McKibben, 'Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City'

Carol Lynn McKibben. Salinas: A History of Race and Resilience in an Agricultural City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 464 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-2991-2.

Reviewed by Michael Weeks (Utah Valley University) Published on H-Environment (December, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, Nancy J. Jacobs, eds.
Reviewer: 
Elijah Doro

Doro on Wynn and Carruthers and Jacobs, 'Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories'

Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, Nancy J. Jacobs, eds. Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories. Ecology & History Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022. xii + 354 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-2485-8

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