EH Vol.20 (2), May 2014

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Sheffield’s Great Flood of 1864: Engineering Failure and the Municipalisation of Water Shane Ewen

Fluvial Landscape and the State: Property and the Gangetic Diaras in Colonial India, 1790s-1890s Nitin Sinha

‘Never such weather known in these seas’: Climatic Fluctuations and the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century, 1652-1674″ Dagomar Degroot

Human Agency and Exotic Birds in New Zealand Paul Star

BOOK REVIEWS

Daniel E. Orenstein, Allon Tal and Char Miller, eds., Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel (Peter Collier)
Emily O’Gorman, Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (Neil Macdonald)
Chris Pearson, Mobilizing Nature: The Environmental History of War and Militarization in Modern France (Tamara L. Whited)
John Wills, US Environmental History: Inviting Doomsday (Char Miller)
Christopher C. Sellers, Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America (Andrea Gaynor)

SOCIETY PAGES