Eric Thomas Chester’s new book on the rise and fall of the Industrial Workers of the World before and during World War I provides several key new insights about this union that plays such a large role in the American radical imagination. In particular, Chester...
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In Enacting the Corporation, the anthropologist Marina Welker seeks to humanize corporate behavior by examining how the Denver-based mining conglomerate Newmont attempts to enact the principles of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Victoria Vanoch's history of flight attendants and beauty is a highly readable and enjoyable history of one of the most unique sets of workers in the twentieth century United States..
H.H. Shugart, a systems ecologist at the University of Virginia, has written a book using the Book of Job to frame both environmental change over the long period of human history and how we are transforming the planet's ecology today. Shugart's major goal is to...
Gregory Wood's Retiring Men examines the intersection between masculinity, work, and retirement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. He argues that the crisis over retirement in a.
For those interested in environmentalism, the dominant narrative of the state of the forests is one of decline and collapse in the face of industrial development. While wilderness protection was.
The borderlands historian Andrew Graybill's latest book is an extremely readable saga into the great complexities of what it has meant to be mixed-race in the American West. The Red and the White is a set of family biographies from one Montana family that originated...
Now that one book is in the can and the other is under review, I have time to read again. So I will review the recent books I get through.
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov is a new biography of Field Marshal Georgy.
I reviewed Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell's China's Search for Security for H-Net: Nevertheless, Nathan and Scobell argue that, despite its growing power, China’s international position remains almost uniquely precarious. China borders more countries that any nation on earth, and continues to have border disputes...
Jeffrey Pilcher, the noted historian of food in Mexico, has a new book placing Mexican food in a global context. When thinking of a nation's food, particularly one as laden.
Who wants to feel less terrible about the environmental problems we face? Who wants to hear some happy stories? I know I do. Being a scholar of the natural world.