Monthly Archives: November 2021

Matthew Evan Davis – Meeting the Medieval in a Digital World

INTRODUCTION – MATTHEW EVAN DAVIS, TAMSYN MAHONEY-STEEL, AND ECE TURNATOR 1 – This time of renewal has become a key part of how we have dealt [...]

21 November, 2021

Roy Rosenzweig – Clio Wired

6 – Thus historians need to be thinking simultaneously about how to research, write, and teach in a world of unheard-of historical abundance and how [...]

21 November, 2021

Bonnie Ruberg – Video Games Have Always Been Queer

1 – Amidst a dominant games culture that has proven itself to be openly hostile to diversity, the politics of queer play echo outward across games [...]

19 November, 2021

Roopika Risam – New Digital Worlds

3 – The Puerto Rico Mapathon is an important example of how postcolonial digital humanities has come to the fore as an intervention in digital [...]

19 November, 2021

Elizabeth Losh & Jacqueline Wernimont – Bodies of Information

Introduction – Jacqueline Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh Ix – This volume also emerges in an era when the tasks of intersectional feminisms, of [...]

19 November, 2021

Jerome McGann – A New Republic of Letters

1 – Here is surely a truth now universally acknowledged: that the whole of our cultural inheritance has to be recurated and reedited in digital forms [...]

18 November, 2021

Sinah Theres Kloß – The Global South , Vol. 11, No. 2 – The Global South as Subversive Practice

The Global South as Subversive Practice: Challenges and Potentials of a Heuristic Concept — Sinah Theres Kloß 1 – It argues that the “Global [...]

12 November, 2021

Frederick Cooper – Colonialism in Question

3 – Such concerns have led some scholars to examine thoughtfully the complex ways in which Europe was made from its colonies and how the very [...]

12 November, 2021

Fabiana Li – Unearthing Conflict

3 – Why was it that, in this so-­called mining country, extractive activity ended up at the center of controversy and local resistance? How did water [...]

6 November, 2021

Thomas Miller Klubock – La Frontera

2-3 – This book brings together the social and environmental histories of the southern frontier territory to examine the origins of Chile’s recent [...]

5 November, 2021

Molly Doane – Stealing Shining Rivers

Preface – Why the Environment Is Political Vii – The exhibit condenses landscapes and idealizes their elements by, for example, including live [...]

5 November, 2021

Matthew Vitz – City on a Lake

INTRODUCTION Mexico City is, indeed, a city facing extraordinary social and environmental predicaments. This book helps explain the origins and evolution [...]

5 November, 2021

Reinaldo Monzote – From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba

No theoretical underpinnings, no argument, just an endless stream of arcane quantitative facts and summaries barely stitched into a narrative, and [...]

5 November, 2021

Andra Chastain & Timothy Lorek – Itineraries of Expertise

Introduction 3 Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek  3 – We contend that, beneath the conflicts waged by diplomats and militaries, the Latin [...]

5 November, 2021

Elinor Melville – A Plague of Sheep

“1 – biological and social regimes” 12-13 – environment as active variable 13 – indigenous agricultural proficiency belied the fragility [...]

4 November, 2021

Mikael Wolfe – Watering the Revolution

1-2 – “Mexican federal engineers, also known as tecnicos, were not merely passive implementers of large-scale state development schemes such as [...]

4 November, 2021

Andrew Mathews – Instituting Nature

2 – this book about the effort to produce a regime of transparent knowledge in mexican forestry 3 – bureaucracy as performance 4 – [...]

4 November, 2021

Christopher Boyer – A Land Between Waters

3 – “Generations of historians have studied environmental revolution associated with colonialism, but they have largely ignored the more recent and [...]

4 November, 2021

Tore Olsson – Agrarian Crossings

 8 – if not neatly a process of “americanization” what about a process of “industrialization”, first of the US South by the North and, then, [...]

3 November, 2021

Christopher Boyer – Political Landscapes

xiii – political landscapes is two stories of redemption that each begin with campesino loss of land or land access and end with the recuperation of [...]

3 November, 2021

Myrna Santiago – The Ecology of Oil

2 – “No explanation is offered – no identification, no mention of whose private property the stinking lake is and who the authorized personnel [...]

3 November, 2021

Warren Dean – With Broadax and Firebrand

4 – A kind of forest history has been written in North America in which the forest appears as raw material for the timber trade, nothing more. The [...]

3 November, 2021

Eve Buckley – Technocrats and the Politics of Drought

Eve Buckley’s Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil studies the drought-prone sertao region of Brazil and [...]

3 November, 2021

Dolly Jorgensen – New Natures

Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology StudiesPromises, Challenges, and Contributions – Sara Pritchard 1-2 – For example, [...]

3 November, 2021

Ashley Carse – Beyond the Big Ditch

5 – Here, then, are the paradoxes at the core of this book: (1) the Panama Canal needs forests and (2) the canal had to be saved from machetes. [...]

3 November, 2021

William Cronon – Uncommon Ground

Foreword to the Paperback Edition Highlight (yellow) – Location 243 Even when we travel through a beautiful mountain landscape in the Sierra Nevada [...]

2 November, 2021