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"This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken for granted, and establishes a novel concept -- the nature state -- as a means for exploring the historical formation of that portion of the state dedicated to managing and protecting nature.Following the Industrial Revolution and post-war exponential increase in human population and consumption, conservation in myriad forms has been one particularly visible way in which the government and its agencies have tried to control, manage or produce nature for reasons other than raw exploitation. Using an interdisciplinary approach and including case studies from across the globe, this edited collection brings together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians in order to examine the degree to which sociopolitical regimes facilitate and shape the emergence and development of nature states. This innovative work marks an early intervention in the tentative turn towards the state in environmental history and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental history, social anthropology and conservation studies. ?"--Provided by publisher.

History of science's spatial turn has focused on the horizontal dimension, leaving the role of the vertical mostly unexplored as both a condition and object of scientific knowledge production. This special issue seeks to contribute to a burgeoning discussion on the role of verticality in modern sciences, building upon a wider interdisciplinary debate about the importance of the vertical and the volumetric in the making of modern lifeworlds. In this essay and in the contributions that follow, verticality appears as a condition of knowledge production—a set of movements and mobilities, technical challenges, political negotiations, and bodily hardships—and an object of scientific inquiry, requiring new techniques of mapping and visualisation and generative of new insights into physical processes and temporal change. By foregrounding the vertical, historians of science can gain new insights and tell new stories about how science is done in the field, the observatory, and the laboratory, and about how those sciences have helped build a modern, three‐dimensional world.

Jon Berndt Olsen, Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and
Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990 (New York:
Berghahn Books, 2015)
Reviewed by Jonathan BachMicahel Krüger, Christian Becker, and Stefan Nielsen, German
Sports, Doping, and Politics: A History of Performance Enhancement
(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
Reviewed by Heather L. DichterSusanne Rinner. The German Student Movement and the Literary
Imagination: Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent
(New York: Berghahn Books, 2013)
Reviewed by Kirkland Alexander FulkKristen Kopp, Germany's Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial
Space (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2012)
Reviewed by Alexander WochnikSean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann, eds., Heights of Reflection:
Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the
Twenty-First Century, Studies in German Literature, Linguistics,
and Culture (Rochester: Camden House, 2012).
Reviewed by Wilko Graf von HardenbergFrank Uekötter, The Greenest Nation? A New History of German
Environmentalism (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014).
Reviewed by Carol Hager