Reviews

Author:

Christine Keiner

Reviewer:

Philipp Lehmann

Lehmann on Keiner, 'Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal'

Christine Keiner. Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal. Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020. Illustrations. 288 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-3895-8; $114.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-3894-1.

Reviewed by Philipp Lehmann (University of California, Riverside) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Robert O. Binnewies

Reviewer:

Savannah Donnelly

Donnelly on Binnewies, 'Palisades: The People's Park'

Robert O. Binnewies. Palisades: The People's Park. New York: Empire State Editions, 2021. 424 pp. $43.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-9369-8.

Reviewed by Savannah Donnelly (Montana State University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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Author:

Miles Larmer

Reviewer:

Kristin Brig-Ortiz

Brig-Ortiz on Larmer, 'Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt'

Miles Larmer. Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 288 pp. Open Access (pdf), ISBN 978-1-108-97312-0; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-83315-8.

Reviewed by Kristin Brig-Ortiz (Johns Hopkins University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Robert Coutts

Reviewer:

Shannon Stunden Bower

Stunden Bower on Coutts, 'Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada'

Robert Coutts. Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021. 252 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88755-926-6; $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-88755-932-7.

Reviewed by Shannon Stunden Bower (University of Alberta) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Carmen Martínez Novo

Reviewer:

German Vergara

Vergara on Martínez Novo, 'Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador'

Carmen Martínez Novo. Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. 312 pp. $50.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8229-8808-3; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4663-2.

Reviewed by German Vergara (Georgia Tech) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Kai Erikson, Lori Peek

Reviewer:

Ian Seavey

Seavey on Erikson and Peek, 'The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina'

Kai Erikson, Lori Peek. The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 160 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4773-2434-9.

Reviewed by Ian Seavey (Texas A&M University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Earl J. Hess, ed.

Reviewer:

Wyatt Erchak

Erchak on Hess, 'Animal Histories of the Civil War Era'

Earl J. Hess, ed. Animal Histories of the Civil War Era. Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. 280 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-7691-7.

Author:

John Mack Faragher

Reviewer:

Carol McKibben

McKibben on Faragher, 'California: An American History'

John Mack Faragher. California: An American History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. Illustrations. ix + 466 pp. $28.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-22579-2.

Reviewed by Carol McKibben (Stanford University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Michael Weeks

Reviewer:

Jonathan Rees

Rees on Weeks, 'Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado'

Michael Weeks. Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Illustrations. 348 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0841-5.

Author:

Sean Nixon

Reviewer:

Annika A. Culver

Culver on Nixon, 'Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment, and Sport'

Sean Nixon. Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment, and Sport. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. x + 318 pp. $45.11 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01045-6.

Reviewed by Annika A. Culver (Florida State University) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Molly P. Rozum

Reviewer:

Anthony Carlson

Carlson on Rozum, 'Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies'

Molly P. Rozum. Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps. 500 pp. $35.00 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-4962-2797-3; $35.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4962-2796-6; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-2671-6; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-8576-7.

Reviewed by Anthony Carlson (Combat Studies Institute) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Charlotte Rogers

Reviewer:

Antonio Ortega Santos

Ortega Santos on Rogers, 'Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics'

Charlotte Rogers. Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. xiv + 340 pp. $39.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4266-7.

Author:

Daniel Vivian

Reviewer:

Anne Mitchell Whisnant

Whisnant on Vivian, 'A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940'

Daniel Vivian. A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 362 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-41690-0.

Author:

Michael North, Pamela E. Selwyn

Reviewer:

Penelope K. Hardy

Hardy on North and Selwyn, 'A World History of the Seas: From Harbour to Horizon'

Michael North, Pamela E. Selwyn. A World History of the Seas: From Harbour to Horizon. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xiv + 308 pp. $91.96 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-14544-3; $30.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-14543-6.

Author:

Vaclav Smil

Reviewer:

Lee Vinsel

Vinsel on Smil, 'Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities'

Vaclav Smil. Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. Illustrations. xxv + 634 pp. $27.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-53968-5.

Reviewed by Lee Vinsel (Virginia Tech) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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Lehmann on Keiner, 'Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal'

Donnelly on Binnewies, 'Palisades: The People's Park'

Brig-Ortiz on Larmer, 'Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt'

Stunden Bower on Coutts, 'Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada'

Vergara on Martínez Novo, 'Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador'

Seavey on Erikson and Peek, 'The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina'

Erchak on Hess, 'Animal Histories of the Civil War Era'

McKibben on Faragher, 'California: An American History'

Rees on Weeks, 'Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado'

Culver on Nixon, 'Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment, and Sport'

Carlson on Rozum, 'Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies'

Ortega Santos on Rogers, 'Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics'

Whisnant on Vivian, 'A New Plantation World: Sporting Estates in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940'

Hardy on North and Selwyn, 'A World History of the Seas: From Harbour to Horizon'

Vinsel on Smil, 'Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities'

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