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Environment

Review of No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City

Review of The Science of Useful Nature in Central America: Landscapes, Networks, and Practical Enlightenment, 1784–1838, by Sophie Brockmann (2020).

Review of The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen (1999)

Review of Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy (2002), by Inga Saffron.

Review of Bolivia in the Age of Gas (2020) by Bret Gustafson

Review of A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (2022) by Robyn d’Avignon

Review of Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 (2010) by J. R. McNeill

Review of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (2018) by Megan Black

Review of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (2019) by Bathsheba Demuth

Review of Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (2007) by Diana K. Davis

Review of Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (2022) by Seth Garfield

Review of Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration (2022) by Laura J. Martin

Review of After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe by Lydia Barnett (2019)

Review of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002) by Conevery Bolton Valencius

The New World and Beyond: A Review of New World Nature

Review of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World (2020)

Review of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World (2020)

Cotton, Coal, and Capitalism: Review of Aaron Jakes’ Egypt’s Occupation and On Barak’s Powering Empire

Book cover of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science by Christopher C. Sellers

Review of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (1997) by Christopher Sellers

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (2018) Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett

The Frigid Golden Age

Review of The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720 (2018) by Dagomar Degroot

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979) by Donald Worster

On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden by Elizabeth Hennessy (2019)

A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen. (2018)

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980) by Carolyn Merchant

IHS Climate in Context Digital Archive Review: Tools and Resources for Studying Environmental History

Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani (2020)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide by C.J. Alvarez (2019)

The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (2015)

City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas by Andrew M. Busch (2017)

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott (2017)

A Primer for Teaching Environmental History: Ten Design Principles. By Emily Wakild and Michelle K. Berry (2018)

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, by William Cronon (1983)

Book cover of Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Daniel Nemser (2017)

The National Museum of Anthropology in San Salvador

Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, by Nancy P. Appelbaum (2016)

Seeds of Empire, By Andrew Torget (2015)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast, by Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. (2014)

The Environment on History & History in the Environment

Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, by Karl Jacoby (2003)

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, by Daniela Bleichmar (2012)

Mapping The Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10)

Great Books and a Film on the Amazon

The Republic of Nature by Mark Fiege (2012)

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II by Gabrielle Hecht (1998)

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption & Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States by John Soluri (2005)

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