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Reviewed for H-Environment by Lily B. Pollans
Melosi, Martin V.. _Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and
Discarding in New York City_. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2020. 800 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-231-18949-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58197
Reviewed for H-Socialisms by Jon Bekken
Yeoman, John Michael. _Print Culture and the Formation of the
Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890–1915_. Routledge Studies in
Cultural History Series. Chico: AK Press, 2022. Charts, maps,
tables. 300 pp. $22.00, ISBN 978-1-84935-458-5.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58802
Reviewed for H-German by Alexandria Ruble
Bruce, Emily C.. _Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern
Childhood and the German Middle Class_. Childhoods:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth Series.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021. Illustrations.
224 pp. $90.00, ISBN 978-1-62534-563-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58328
Reviewed for H-Early-America by Mairin Odle
Seeman, Erik R.. _Speaking with the Dead in Early America_.
Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2022. 344 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-2518-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57888
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by James J. Esposito
Grayzel, Susan R.. _Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians
Faced the Terror of Total War, The_. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2022. 288 pp. $34.99, ISBN 978-1-108-49127-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58345
Reviewed for H-Environment by Jonathan Hancock
Shay, C. Thomas. _Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native
Peoples of the Northern Plains_. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2022. 312 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4962-2338-8.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58204
Reviewed for H-Environment by Samantha Muka
Bohan, Gary. _Sharkey: When Sea Lions Were Stars of Show
Business_. Excelsior Editions. Albany: Excelsior Editions, 2022.
316 pp. $24.95, ISBN 978-1-4384-8712-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57917
Reviewed for H-War by Gwyn Davies
Kaufmann, J. E.; Kaufmann, H. W.. _Castrum to Castle: Classical
to Medieval Fortifications in the Lands of the Western Roman
Empire_. Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2018. 288 pp. , ISBN
978-1-4738-9582-9.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57591
Reviewed for H-Environment by Sarah Pickman
Cowie, Helen Louise. _Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in
Victorian Britain_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
300 pp. $39.99, ISBN 978-1-108-86126-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57668
Reviewed for H-Environment by Tanya Matthan
Elkin, Rosetta S.. _Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of
Afforestation_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Illustrations, tables. xxiv + 250 pp. $120.00, ISBN 978-1-5179-
1261-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58173
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by SJ Zanolini
Menzies, Nicholas K.. _Ordering the Myriad Things: From
Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China_. Culture,
Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
2021. xx + 288 pp. $32.00, ISBN 978-0-295-74946-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57595
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Graeme Gooday
Farley, Robert M.; Isaacs, Davida H.. _Patents for Power:
Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military
Technology_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 224 pp.
$40.00, ISBN 978-0-226-71652-7.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58081
Reviewed for H-Environment by Alison J. Miller
Winther-Tamaki, Bert. _Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary
Japanese Art_. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
306 pp. $140.00, ISBN 978-1-5179-1190-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58293
Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Sarah Qidwai
Goss, Andrew, ed.. _Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire,
The_. London: Routledge, 2021. Illustrations. 324 pp. $52.95,
ISBN 978-0-429-27336-0.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57064
Reviewed for H-Disability by Will Rogers
Cartwright, Ryan Lee. _Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of
White Rural Nonconformity_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2021. 272 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-226-69688-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57267
Reviewed for H-Environment by Amanda Wells
Hore, Jarrod. _Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography
Shaped Settler Colonialism_. Oakland: University of California
Press, 2022. xvii + 333 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-520-38126-1.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58303
Reviewed for Jhistory by Evan C. Rothera
Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth. _Fateful Lightning: Civil War
Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876, The_. Print
Culture in the South Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
2021. 268 pp. $36.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-6065-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58459
Reviewed for H-Environment by Tobias Hrynick
Turner, Derek. _Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire_.
London: Hurst, 2022. Illustrations. xxi + 446 pp. $29.95, ISBN
978-1-78738-698-3.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58475
Reviewed for H-Environment by Charlotte A. Abney Salomon
Dodds, Phil. _Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh, The_.
Studies in the Eighteenth Century Series. Woodbridge: Boydell
Press, 2022. Illustrations. 384 pp. $115.00, ISBN 978-1-78327-
703-2.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58012
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Reviewed for H-Sci-Med-Tech by Katherine Hite
Iturriaga, Nicole. _Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics,
Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past_. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2022. xv + 234 pp. $120.00, ISBN 978-0-231-
20112-4.
Review - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58079
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