Reviews

Author: 
Richard White
Reviewer: 
Lindsey Passenger Wieck

Passenger Wieck on White, 'California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History'

Richard White. California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History. Photographs by Jesse Amble White. Cartography by Erik Steiner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. Illustrations. 352 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-24306-2

Author: 
Jill P. May, Robert E. May
Reviewer: 
Vyta Pivo

Pivo on May and May, 'Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian'

Jill P. May, Robert E. May. Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2022. xvii + 253 pp.

Author: 
Tom Tyler
Reviewer: 
Juniper Lewis

Lewis on Tyler, 'Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity'

Tom Tyler. Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. xii + 235 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1019-8

Reviewed by Juniper Lewis (University of Wisconsin) Published on H-Environment (October, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Taylor Eggan
Reviewer: 
Erin James

James on Eggan, 'Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination (Under the Sign of Nature)'

Taylor Eggan. Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination (Under the Sign of Nature). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. xi + 293 pp. $29.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8139-4683-2; $57.02 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4684-9

Author: 
Andrew N. Case
Reviewer: 
Amber Striekwold

Striekwold on Case, 'The Organic Profit: Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism'

Andrew N. Case. The Organic Profit: Rodale and the Making of Marketplace Environmentalism. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xvii + 272 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74301-1

Author: 
Velayutham Saravanan
Reviewer: 
Amanda Lanzillo

Lanzillo on Saravanan, 'Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development'

Velayutham Saravanan. Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development. New Delhi; London: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, 2022. 276 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-93-5435328-4

Author: 
Daniel Heath Justice, Jean M. O'Brien, eds.
Reviewer: 
Christopher Turner

Turner on Justice and O'Brien, 'Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege (Indigenous Americas)'

Daniel Heath Justice, Jean M. O'Brien, eds. Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege (Indigenous Americas). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. xxx + 333 pp.

Author: 
Chadwick Allen
Reviewer: 
Annabel Labrecque

Labrecque on Allen, 'Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts'

Chadwick Allen. Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts. Indigenous Americas Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 424 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1232-1; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-1233-8

Author: 
John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, Sue Tuohy, eds.
Reviewer: 
Christian Filbrun

Filbrun on McDowell and Borland and Dirksen and Tuohy, 'Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change'

John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, Sue Tuohy, eds. Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. 294 pp.

Author: 
Stefan Dorondel, Stelu Șerban, eds.
Reviewer: 
Julie Ault

Ault on Dorondel and Șerban, 'A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe'

Stefan Dorondel, Stelu Șerban, eds. A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe. INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. 292 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4717-2

Author: 
Valerio Caruso
Reviewer: 
Kristin Poling

Poling on Caruso, 'The Swamp of East Naples: Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb'

Valerio Caruso. The Swamp of East Naples: Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb. Translated by Sara Ferraioli. Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2021. 224 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-912186-21-1

Author: 
John D. Leshy
Reviewer: 
Carrie Meyer

Meyer on Leshy, 'Our Common Ground: A History of America's Public Lands'

John D. Leshy. Our Common Ground: A History of America's Public Lands. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 736 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-23578-4

Reviewed by Carrie Meyer (University of Nebraska) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
John C. Hudson
Reviewer: 
Christine Woodside

Woodside on Hudson, 'Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada'

John C. Hudson. Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada. Creating the North American Landscape, second edition. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2020. 520 pp. $72.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4214-3758-3.

Reviewed by Christine Woodside (University of Connecticut) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author: 
Margaret Bullock, ed.
Reviewer: 
Michaela Rife

Rife on Bullock, 'New Deal Art in the Northwest: The WPA and Beyond'

Margaret Bullock, ed. New Deal Art in the Northwest: The WPA and Beyond. Tacoma: Tacoma Art Museum, 2020. Illustrations. 239 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-924335-48-8

Reviewed by Michaela Rife (University of Michigan) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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