Reviews

Author: 
Camelia Dewan
Reviewer: 
Aditya Ramesh

Ramesh on Dewan, 'Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh'

Camelia Dewan. Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps, tables. 254 pp.

Author: 
Royden Loewen
Reviewer: 
Leo C. L. Chu

Chu on Loewen, 'Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability'

Royden Loewen. Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability. Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021. 348 pp. $52.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-88755-966-2; $52.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-4203-7.

Reviewed by Leo C. L. Chu (Cambridge University) Published on H-Environment (November, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
David Stahel
Reviewer: 
Theodore Karamanski

Karamanski on Stahel, 'Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942'

David Stahel. Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 560 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-24952-6.

Reviewed by Theodore Karamanski (Loyola University Chicago) Published on H-Environment (November, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Alfred de Quervain
Reviewer: 
Christian Drury

Drury on Quervain, 'Across Greenland's Ice Cap: The Remarkable Swiss Scientific Expedition of 1912'

Alfred de Quervain. Across Greenland's Ice Cap: The Remarkable Swiss Scientific Expedition of 1912. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations, maps. 248 pp. $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01066-1

Author: 
Cleo Wölfle Hazard
Reviewer: 
Kyle Bladow

Bladow on Wölfle Hazard, 'Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice'

Cleo Wölfle Hazard. Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice. Feminist Technosciences Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. 312 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74974-7; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74975-4

Author: 
Kevin Loughran
Reviewer: 
Nicky Rehnberg

Rehnberg on Loughran, 'Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City'

Kevin Loughran. Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 304 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19405-1.

Reviewed by Nicky Rehnberg (University of California, Santa Barbara) Published on H-Environment (October, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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Author: 
Alicia Puglionesi
Reviewer: 
Hayden L. Nelson

Nelson on Puglionesi, 'In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire'

Alicia Puglionesi. In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire. New York: Scribner, 2022. 368 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-982116-75-0

Reviewed by Hayden L. Nelson (University of Kansas) Published on H-Environment (October, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Michelle Smith
Reviewer: 
Robin Ganev

Ganev on Smith, 'Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age'

Michelle Smith. Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2021. 234 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3835-1

Author: 
James Pettifer, Miranda Vickers
Reviewer: 
N. Bucky Stanton

Stanton on Pettifer and Vickers, 'Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Water'

James Pettifer, Miranda Vickers. Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Water. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. . ISBN 978-1-350-22615-9; ISBN 978-1-350-22614-2.

Reviewed by N. Bucky Stanton (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Published on H-Environment (October, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Christopher Courtheyn
Reviewer: 
Javier Puente

Puente on Courtheyn, 'Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia'

Christopher Courtheyn. Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. 304 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4714-1

Author: 
Ursula Lang
Reviewer: 
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Riney-Kehrberg on Lang, 'Living with Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home'

Ursula Lang. Living with Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. Illustrations. xvi + 199 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-00856-9; $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00898-9

Author: 
Evan J
Reviewer: 
Max Karpinski

Karpinski on J, 'Ripping Down Half the Trees'

Evan J. Ripping Down Half the Trees. The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. ix + 94 pp. $17.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00546-9

Reviewed by Max Karpinski (University of Toronto) Published on H-Environment (October, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Carolyn L. White
Reviewer: 
Jessica Christie

Christie on White, 'The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City'

Carolyn L. White. The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City. Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas Series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. Illustrations. 280 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8263-6133-2.

Reviewed by Jessica Christie (East Carolina University) Published on H-Environment (October, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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