A network to provide discussion of any and all water history issues, their relationship to current issues, and to disseminate/share information, including new books and sources.
R. Lawrence Swanson, Malcolm J. Bowman. Between Stony Brook Harbor Tides: The Natural History of a Long Island Pocket Bay. Excelsior Editions Series. Albany: State University of New Press, 2016. Illustrations. 152 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-6234-9; $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6233-2.
Nancy Langston. Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 312 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21298-3.
Reviewed by Melissa Charenko (Michigan State University, Lyman Briggs College) Published on H-Water (June, 2019) Commissioned by Jonathan Wlasiuk (Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University)
Debjani Bhattacharyya. Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps. 254 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42574-2.
Reviewed by Rohan D'Souza (Kyoto University) Published on H-Water (March, 2019) Commissioned by Aditya Ramesh (SOAS, London)
Jim Clifford. West Ham and the River Lea: A Social and Environmental History of London's Industrialized Marshland, 1839-1914. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. 240 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7748-3423-0.
Reviewed by Carry Van Lieshout (University of Cambridge) Published on H-Water (March, 2019) Commissioned by Aditya Ramesh (SOAS, London)
