Water, Bodies, Space: New Directions in World Environmental History.

This article reviews three recent works that exemplify new directions in environmental history by integrating ecological perspectives with global and imperial histories. Faisal Husain's *Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire* offers a hydro-scale study of the Tigris-Euphrates basin under Ottoman rule, emphasizing the interconnectedness of waterways, ecology, and state power in the early modern Middle East. Kate Luce Mulry's *An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic* examines Restoration England's ambitions to reshape both human bodies and colonial landscapes, highlighting the political and environmental dimensions of "improvement" across the Atlantic world. *Mapping Nature Across the Americas*, edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and James R. Akerman, explores the interplay between cartography and environmental knowledge in the Americas, with attention to Indigenous spatial perspectives and the evolving role of maps in imperial and ecological contexts. Together, these works address understudied regions and periods, emphasize the integration of human and nonhuman actors, and suggest pathways for expanding environmental history within global and early modern frameworks.