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New open access book: The World Wide Web of Work: A history in the making
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Reviewer:
Nicholas Cox
Cox on Silkenat, 'Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South'
David Silkenat.
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 261 pp.
$29.80 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-756422-6. 
Reviewed by Nicholas Cox Published on H-CivWar (May, 2023) Commissioned by G. David Schieffler (Crowder College)
Seminar - Inequality and expendability in early public health, with Elise A. Mitchell and Mathieu Corteel
All are welcome to this seminar, 'Inequality and expendability in early public health', on Tuesday 30 May, online and in person in London - 4.00-5.15pm:
Elise A Mitchell: 'Morbid Geographies: Quarantines and the Caribbean Slave Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'.
Mathieu Corteel: 'The issue of inequality in French Public Hygiene (1820-1832)'.
Past Imperfect podcast: Ulbe Bosma, The World of Sugar
Episode 8 of Past Imperfect features Ulbe Bosma, Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor of International Comparative Social History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Bosma is the author of The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years (Harvard University Press 2023).
Chloe Ireton on Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Atlantic (23 May)
Members of this list may be interested in the following talk by Chloe Ireton on Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Atlantic, organised by the Wolfson College Humanities Society.
Past Imperfect podcast: Ulbe Bosma, The World of Sugar
Episode 8 of Past Imperfect features Ulbe Bosma, Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor of International Comparative Social History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Bosma is the author of The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years (Harvard University Press 2023).