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Hagley History Hangout Podcast - New Episode - International Geophysics in the Interwar Period, 1919-1939 with Erik Isberg
Tune in here or wherever you find your podcasts: https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-erik-isberg
Geophysics, or the study of Earth using the tools and methods of physics, is often understood to have begun in the post-WWII period. However, the period between the world wars saw ferment and innovation in the field, and the emergence of the term geophysics itself.
Seeking additional chapters for The Handbook of Ecofeminist Drama to complement the 43 confirmed chapters from over 20 countries listed below. Proposals are due 15 June 2026. The Handbook is under review with the University of Illinois Press.
Enck, Judith; with Adam Mahoney. The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late. : New Press, 2025. 216 pp. $27.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781620979457.
Reviewed by
Stephanie Foote (University of Vermont)
Published on
H-Environment (May, 2026)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Bruisch, Katja. Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy. : Cambridge University Press, 2025. 271 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781009603089.
Reviewed by
Maria Fedorova (Macalester College)
Published on
H-Environment (May, 2026)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Pouliot, Alison; Patience, Stuart. Mushroom Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Fungal Lives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 216 pp. $18.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226838441.
Reviewed by
Siyu Xie (Johns Hopkins University)
Published on
H-Environment (May, 2026)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Clancy, Peter; Levesque, Mario. Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. : University of British Columbia Press, 2025. 448 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 9780774870948.
Reviewed by
Don Desserud (University of Prince Edward Island)
Published on
H-Environment (May, 2026)
Commissioned by
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Erin Goodling's Green City Rising: Contamination, Cleanup, and Collective Action. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Green City Rising: Contamination, Cleanup, and Collective Action
Author: Erin Goodling
Contributors: Cristina Faiver-Serna, Tyler McCreary
Editor: Carlos Salvador Dimas
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Yixin Chen's When Food Became Scarce: How Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: When Food Became Scarce: How Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine
Author: Yixin Chen
Contributors: Stephen R. Halsey, Liu Shigu, Michael Szonyi, Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Editor: Kara Murphy Schlichting
Dear Colleagues-
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Stephanie Baker Opperman's Cold War Anthropologist: Isabel Kelly and Rural Development in Mexico. Please enjoy and distribute widely.
Title: Cold War Anthropologist: Isabel Kelly and Rural Development in Mexico
Author: Stephanie Baker Opperman
Contributors: Nicole Pacino, Ulices Piña, Sarah Lyon
Editor: Carlos Salvador Dimas
Dear Colleagues,
Announcing a new edition of H-Environment Roundtables featuring Sureshkumar Muthukumaran's The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean.
Title: The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean
Author: Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
Contributors: Samuel Dolbee, Barbara Böck, and Vladimir Dabrowski
Editor: Tina Adcock
