My review of Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature by Jens Lachmund is now online at H-Soz-und-Kult. Lachmund’s book is a fascinating account of how West Berlin ecologists helped create the new field of “urban ecology” in the rubble fields left behind by World War II.
Category: reviews
Review of DeMello, Animals and Society, and Macgregor, Animal Encounters
Review of Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello and Animal Encounters: Human and Animal Interactions in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War One by Arthur Macgregor, Environmental History 2013. doi: 10.1093/envhis/emt073
Review of Tom Tyler, CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers
My review of Tom Tyler’s illuminating and entertaining book of animal philosophy, CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers (Configurations 20, no. 3 (2012): 209-212), is now available here.
Review of Carol Freeman et al., eds., Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations
Review of Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human–Animal Relations, ed. Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane, and Yvette Watt (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011). Annals of Science 2011 (online 29 Sept. 2011).
Review of The Afterlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie
Review of The Aferlives of Animals: A Museum Menagerie, ed. Samuel J.M.M. Alberti (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011). Environmental History (online 23 Aug. 2012).
Review of Mark Cioc, The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals
Review of The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals by Mark Cioc (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009). Environment and History 16 (2010): 509-511. (pdf)
Review of Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini, eds., Animal Encounters
Review of Animal Encounters, ed. Tom Tyler and Manuela Rossini (Leiden: Brill, 2009). JAC 30 (2010): 825-834. (pdf)
Review of Dorothee Brantz, ed., Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History
Review of Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History, ed. Dorothee Brantz (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010). Environmental History 16, no. 2 (2011): 336-337. (pdf)