Location
Utah,
United States
Subject Fields
Environmental History / Studies,
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Welcome to the H-Environment network. Part of H-NET, the Humanities & Social Sciences Online initiative, H-Environment is supported by organizations of professional historians including the American Society for Environmental History and the European Society for Environmental History.
Stay Ahead of the Curve with ALE’s Free "AI Tools Boot Camp for Researchers: Core Essentials" Course
Subject Fields
Humanities,
Social Sciences
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Location
Germany
Subject Fields
Architecture and Architectural History,
Geography,
Philosophy,
Research and Methodology
Date: November 29, 2024
Time: 14:30 pm – 15:15 pm CET
By: Alexandra Arènes (landscape architect & researcher; Paris Institute of Earth Physics)
Venue: Hybrid (BigBlueButton & Hermann Hoffmann Academy, Giessen, Germany)
The Panel on Planetary Thinking of Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, cordially invites you to participate in a hybrid lecture:
Location
Massachusetts,
United States
Subject Fields
Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies,
Cultural History / Studies,
Environmental History / Studies,
Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies,
Immigration & Migration History / Studies
The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) at Northeastern University is pleased to announce that we will be holding our annual conference on March 14, 2025.
The theme for this conference is Community Memory in Times of Transnational Crisis. We welcome papers exploring how communities have identified, remembered, and/or defined themselves during and after war, famine, epidemics/pandemics, ethnic cleansing, genocide, colonialism, marginalization, erasure, and various forms of oppression.
Topics and Methods
Recent Reviews
Reviewer
Kostelich, Callie
Moore, L. Michelle. Rural Renaissance: Revitalizing America’s Hometowns through Clean Power. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2022. 252 pp. $34.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781642831979.
Reviewed by
Callie Kostelich (Texas Tech University)
Published on
H-Environment (November, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Fleece on Vandersommers, 'Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive'
Reviewer
Fleece, Chase W.
Vandersommers, Daniel. Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive. Environment and Society Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. xii + 345 pp. $79.99 (cloth), ISBN 9780700635689.$39.99 (paper), ISBN 9780700635696.
Reviewed by
Chase W. Fleece (Bowling Green State University)
Published on
H-Environment (November, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer
Michell, Adrianna
Taylor, Sunaura. Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. Illustrations. 368 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780520393066.
Reviewed by
Adrianna Michell (University of Toronto)
Published on
H-Environment (November, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Reviewer
Loomis, Erik
Egan, Andrew. Haywire: Discord in Maine's Logging Woods and the Unraveling of an Industry. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022. ix + 217 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN 9781625346636. 
Reviewed by
Erik Loomis (University of Rhode Island)
Published on
H-Environment (November, 2024)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Recent Roundtable Reviews
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Elizabeth Grennan Browning's Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886-1937. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Nature's Laboratory: Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886-1937
Author: Elizabeth Grennan Browning
Contributors: Stefan Couperus, Natalie Bump Vena, Janine Giordano Drake
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Philipp Lehmann's Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Philipp Lehmann
Contributors: Angelo Matteo Caglioti, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Fiona Williamson
Editor: Stephen Milder
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables feature Caroline Grego's Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South
Author: Caroline Grego
Contributors: Erin Stewart Mauldin, Edda L. Fields-Black, Hayden R. Smith, David Silkenat, Kathryn M. Silva