Reviews

Author: 
Marco Grasso
Reviewer: 
Anna Bettini

Bettini on Grasso, 'From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis'

Marco Grasso. From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022. 368 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54374-3

Author: 
Erica Cirino
Reviewer: 
Sebastian Lundsteen

Lundsteen on Cirino, 'Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis'

Erica Cirino. Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2021. 272 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-64283-137-5.

Reviewed by Sebastian Lundsteen (Universitetet I Stavanger, IKS.) Published on H-Environment (December, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Jay Barnes
Reviewer: 
Alyssa Fahringer

Fahringer on Barnes, 'Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next'

Jay Barnes. Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations. 374 pp. $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6630-3

Author: 
Ricardo A. Herrera
Reviewer: 
Todd W. Braisted

Braisted on Herrera, 'Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778'

Ricardo A. Herrera. Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 272 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6731-7

Author: 
Jill Desimini
Reviewer: 
Steven High

High on Desimini, 'Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation'

Jill Desimini. Cyclical City: Five Stories of Urban Transformation. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. 294 pp. $42.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-4632-0

Reviewed by Steven High (Concordia University) Published on H-Environment (December, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Jarmila Ptáčková
Reviewer: 
Jared Phillips

Phillips on Ptáčková, 'Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects'

Jarmila Ptáčková. Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects. Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 188 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74819-1

Author: 
Cheryl Cowdy
Reviewer: 
Magdalena Miłosz

Miłosz on Cowdy, 'Canadian Suburban: Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction'

Cheryl Cowdy. Canadian Suburban: Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations. 200 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01064-7.

Reviewed by Magdalena Miłosz (Parks Canada) Published on H-Environment (November, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Dale Barbour
Reviewer: 
Anne Barjolin-Smith

Barjolin-Smith on Barbour, 'Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850–1935'

Dale Barbour. Undressed Toronto: From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850–1935. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2021. 328 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-88755-953-2; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88755-947-1

Author: 
Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons
Reviewer: 
Antonio Ioris

Ioris on Scanlan Lyons, 'Running After Paradise: Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest'

Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons. Running After Paradise: Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and Its Alternatives Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2022. Illustrations. xv + 287 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8165-4013-6

Author: 
Ibrahim AlMuhanna
Reviewer: 
Victor McFarland

McFarland on AlMuhanna, 'Oil Leaders: An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy'

Ibrahim AlMuhanna. Oil Leaders: An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy. Center on Global Energy Policy Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. xxii + 280 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-18974-3

Author: 
Lily Baum Pollans
Reviewer: 
Christine Keiner

Keiner on Pollans, 'Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities'

Lily Baum Pollans. Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 248 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-2370-0; $45.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4773-2372-4. 

Author: 
George Hoberg
Reviewer: 
Hilda Lloréns

Lloréns on Hoberg, 'The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis'

George Hoberg. The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021. 388 pp. $28.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-36715-8; $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54308-8.

Reviewed by Hilda Lloréns (University of Rhode Island) Published on H-Environment (November, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Christopher Ali
Reviewer: 
Royden Loewen

Loewen on Ali, 'Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity'

Christopher Ali. Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity. Information Policy Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021. 306 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54306-4.

Reviewed by Royden Loewen (University of Winnipeg) Published on H-Environment (November, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Jack Reid
Reviewer: 
Douwe Schipper

Schipper on Reid, 'Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation'

Jack Reid. Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Illustrations. 264 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-5500-0; $22.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4696-5501-7. 

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