I have often stated that we are living in a golden age of good academic writing from historians, telling challenging stories that people are ready to hear in ways that.
Dan Flores is an environmental and western historian who is also a fantastic writer. Most of his books have been about life and history on the southwestern Plains, especially west.
The field of environmental history, especially that of the United States, has long had a problem: its practitioners are overwhelmingly white males. This has long caused a lot of consternation.
In this era of American ethnic cleansing, the roundup and deportation of Latin American migrants to a near certain fate of poverty and shockingly likely fates of violence and death.
Jennifer Graber's new book is an outstanding look at the white conquest of the West, examined through the lens of the various religious ideas and traditions involved in the conflict..
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's 2015 book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, is simply one of the best academic works I have read in years. Tsing examines the matsutake.
For the first time, I was asked to write a book blurb. That book is now ready for you to buy and you should do so. It's Stan Cox and.
David Shields is a food historian of the South, particularly the Carolina lowcountry, who has spent more than a decade working specifically on the recovery of Carolina Gold rice, a.
