Reviews

Author:

Shana Lee Hirsch

Reviewer:

Joshua McGuffie

McGuffie on Hirsch, 'Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin'

Shana Lee Hirsch. Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 232 pp. $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-295-74748-4; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74729-3; $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74749-1.

Reviewed by Joshua McGuffie (University of California, Los Angeles) Published on H-Environment (August, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Barbara K. Jones

Reviewer:

David D. Vail

Vail on Jones, 'Wild Capital: Nature's Economic and Ecological Wealth'

Barbara K. Jones. Wild Capital: Nature's Economic and Ecological Wealth. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019. 306 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68340-104-9.

Author:

Yajun Mo

Reviewer:

Micah S. Muscolino

Muscolino on Mo, 'Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949'

Yajun Mo. Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949. Histories and Cultures of Tourism Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 318 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-6062-4; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-6104-1.

Author:

Lukas Ley

Reviewer:

Suzanne Moon

Moon on Ley, 'Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang'

Lukas Ley. Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp. $27.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4529-6289-4; $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0888-1; $108.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-0887-4.

Author:

Megan Birk

Reviewer:

Sara Egge

Egge on Birk, 'The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms'

Megan Birk. The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 300 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04438-0; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08645-8.

Author:

Susan M. Kooiman

Reviewer:

Alicia Colson

Colson on Kooiman, 'Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes'

Susan M. Kooiman. Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Illustrations, tables. 240 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-20146-3; $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-268-20145-6; $34.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-268-20147-0.

Reviewed by Alicia Colson (Royal Geographical Society) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Alison Townsend

Reviewer:

Madison Stump-Smith

Stump-Smith on Townsend, 'The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home'

Alison Townsend. The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 256 pp. $28.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33460-4.

Reviewed by Madison Stump-Smith (Bowling Green State University) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Emily O'Gorman

Reviewer:

Francisco Javier Bonilla

Bonilla on O'Gorman, 'Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin'

Emily O'Gorman. Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. xvii + 261 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74915-0.

Reviewed by Francisco Javier Bonilla (Carnegie Mellon University) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Eric Tagliacozzo

Reviewer:

Jakobina Arch

Arch on Tagliacozzo, 'In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama'

Eric Tagliacozzo. In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 512 pp. Ill. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-14682-9.

Reviewed by Jakobina Arch (Whitman College) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57816

Author:

Dolly Kikon

Reviewer:

Matthew Shutzer

Shutzer on Kikon, 'Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (Culture, Place, and Nature)'

Dolly Kikon. Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (Culture, Place, and Nature). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 204 pp. $28.78 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74395-0.

Reviewed by Matthew Shutzer (University of California, Berkeley) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

Nancy Langston

Reviewer:

Kerri Clement

Clement on Langston, 'Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in Anthropocene'

Nancy Langston. Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in Anthropocene. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2021. 208 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-68458-065-1.

Reviewed by Kerri Clement (University of Idaho) Published on H-Environment (July, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57276

Author:

Jonathan Todd Hancock

Reviewer:

Caroline Greer

Greer on Hancock, 'Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America'

Jonathan Todd Hancock. Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 186 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6218-3; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-6217-6.

Reviewed by Caroline Greer (George Mason University) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Author:

David L. Haberman

Reviewer:

Cybelle Shattuck

Shattuck on Haberman, 'Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds'

David L. Haberman. Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2021. 330 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-05604-7.

Reviewed by Cybelle Shattuck (Western Michigan University) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57496

Author:

Gregory E. Smoak, ed.

Reviewer:

Brian Wright

Wright on Smoak, 'Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West'

Gregory E. Smoak, ed. Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2021. 240 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-64769-034-2.

Author:

Bruce D. Jones

Reviewer:

Aria Finkelstein

Finkelstein on Jones, 'To Rule the Waves: How Control of the Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers'

Bruce D. Jones. To Rule the Waves: How Control of the Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers. New York: Scribner, 2021. 400 pp. $18.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-982127-26-8.

Reviewed by Aria Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Published on H-Environment (June, 2022) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

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McGuffie on Hirsch, 'Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin'

Vail on Jones, 'Wild Capital: Nature's Economic and Ecological Wealth'

Muscolino on Mo, 'Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949'

Moon on Ley, 'Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang'

Egge on Birk, 'The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms'

Colson on Kooiman, 'Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes'

Stump-Smith on Townsend, 'The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home'

Bonilla on O'Gorman, 'Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin'

Arch on Tagliacozzo, 'In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama'

Shutzer on Kikon, 'Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (Culture, Place, and Nature)'

Clement on Langston, 'Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in Anthropocene'

Greer on Hancock, 'Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America'

Shattuck on Haberman, 'Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds'

Wright on Smoak, 'Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West'

Finkelstein on Jones, 'To Rule the Waves: How Control of the Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers'

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