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Many thanks to Heather Green for her warm, generous review of A Cold Colonialism for H-Environment. You can read it here.

My latest H-Environment Roundtable Review centres on Sureshkumar Muthukumaran’s The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean (University of California Press, 2023). It features commentaries by Samuel Dolbee, Barbara Böck, and Vladimir Dabrowski, as well as my introduction and a response by Muthukumaran. 

You can check the roundtable out here!

Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences has just published a short piece of mine, “A Grammar of Modern Exploration,” in a special section entitled “Historical Practice.” The piece reflects on how I had to develop new conceptual language in A Cold Colonialism to fully capture the (colonial) nuances of modern, or twentieth-century exploration.

Here is a link to the (paywalled) article. Please email me (tina DOT adcock AT sfu DOT ca) if you would like to read it, but do not have institutional access to this journal.

Agricultural History has just published my review of Andrew Watson’s Making Muskoka: Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920 (UBC Press, 2023). This book seriously fanned my love for rural history as a historical subfield. I also really appreciated how it reframes sustainability as a subject for historical inquiry.

Click here to read the (paywalled) review.

Back in November, I gave a book talk about A Cold Colonialism at the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. CJSR FM, the U of A’s indie campus radio station, recorded the talk live and condensed it into a 30-minute spot on the second episode of their new podcast, Brains on Campus. This was such a cool opportunity (and a cool way to give something back to my alma mater).

You can listen to the episode here!

Many thanks to Lianne C. Leddy for her thoughtful and perceptive review of A Cold Colonialism for The Otter~La loutre, NiCHE’s blog. You can read it here.

My latest H-Environment Roundtable Review centres on Lianne C. Leddy’s Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake (University of Toronto Press, 2022). It features commentaries by Jessica Urwin, Joseph Masco, Robynne Mellor, and Nick Estes, as well as my introduction and a response by Leddy. 

You can check the roundtable out here!

A Cold Colonialism has received its first review (hooray)! Tyler McCreary’s review (which is paywalled) appears in Canadian Geographies.

NiCHE’s blog, The Otter~La loutre, has just published my review of Matthew S. Wiseman’s Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945–1970 (University of Toronto Press, 2024). Wiseman has dug some fascinating, if sobering, stories on this subject out of the archives. I also appreciated how adroitly the book bridged between military history, the history of science, and Cold War history.

Click here to read the review.

I was delighted to speak about A Cold Colonialism recently in The Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk series. It was a pleasure to chat with hosts Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen of The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities.

You can watch the talk on Vimeo here, or listen to a podcast version of it here!