New Books: December 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

December 2017

2017: A Novel of Political Intrigue by E.A Stillwell (iUniverse 2017)

City of Forests, City of Farms: Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature by Lindsay K. Campbell (Cornell University Press 2017)

Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia: Transitioning to an Alternative World System by Hans A. Baer (Berghahn Books 2017)

Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on Asia and Africa by Gareth Austin (Bloomsbury 2017)

The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given by Rob Sullivan (University of Georgia Press 2017)

Geology of the Florida Keys by Eugene A. Shinn & Barbara H. Lidz (University Press of Florida 2018)

Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. by Cameron Logan (University of Minnesota Press 2017)

Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity by Ipek Türeli (Routledge 2018)

Labor by Andrew Herod (Policy Press 2017)

The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker (Oxford University Press 2018)

Literature and Cartography: Theories, Histories, Genres by Anders Engberg-Pedersen (ed.) (MIT Press 2017)

Spaces of Capital / Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy by Chris Hesketh (University of Georgia Press 2017)

Old Europe, New Suburbanization?: Governance, Land, and Infrastructure in European Suburbanization (Global Suburbanisms) by Nicholas A. Phelps (ed.) (University of Toronto Press 2017)

Growing Community Forests: Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada by Ryan Bullock, Gayle Broad, Lynn Palmer, and Peggy Smith (eds.) (University of Manitoba Press 2017)

The Rogue Revolutionist by Robert L. Blackburn (iUniverse 2017)

Sovereignty’s Entailments: First Nation State Formation in the Yukon by Paul Nadasdy (University of Toronto Press 2017)

Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices, and Environmental Sciences by Richard C. Powell (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2017)

Swamp: Nature and Culture by Anthony Wilson (Reaktion Books 2018)

Timespace and International Migration by Elizabeth Mavroudi, Ben Page, and Anastasia Christou (eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)

Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded by Mustafa Dikeç (Yale University Press 2018)

Why Demography Matters by Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten (Polity Books 2018)

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New Books: November 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

November 2017

The Andes: Geography, Diversity, and Sociocultural Impacts by Casey D. Allen (ed.) (Nova Publishers 2017)

Atlas of the World: Twenty-Fourth Edition by Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press 2017)

Cataclysms: A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century by Michael R. Rampino (Columbia University Press 2017)

Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy by Jason Dittmer (Duke University Press 2017)

Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy by Peter J. Marina (Columbia University Press 2017)

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War by Hito Steyerl (Verso Books 2017)

The Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction by Robert S. Emmett and David E. Nye (The MIT Press 2017)

Everybody’s Problem: The War on Poverty in Eastern North Carolina by Karen M. Hawkins (University Press of Florida 2017)

Geographies of Violence: Killing Space, Killing Time by Marcus Doel (SAGE Publishing 2017)

GIS Tutorial 1 for ArcGIS Pro: A Platform Workbook by Wilpen L. Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland (ESRI Press 2017)

A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Churchby David K. Seitz (University of Minnesota Press 2017)

Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery by Kass Green, Russell G. Congalton, and Mark Tukman (ESRI Press 2017)

The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy by Linda Bernardi, Sanjay Sarma, and Kenneth Traub (The MIT Press 2017)

Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective by Siddharth Kara (Columbia University Press 2017)

Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia by Danny Hoffman (Duke University Press 2017)

Neuroliberalism: Behavioral Government in the Twenty-First Century by Mark Whitehead, Rhys Jones, Rachel Lilley, Jessica Pykett, and Rachel Howell (Routledge 2018)

The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory by Clive Barnett (University of Georgia Press 2017)

The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 by Martin Brückner (University of North Carolina Press 2017)

Territorial Heritage & Spatial Planning: A Geographical Perspective by F. Manero Miguel and J. L. García Cuesta  (Thomson Reuters 2017)

The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strikeby John DeSantis (The History Press 2016)

When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community by Thomas W. Pearson (University of Minnesota Press 2017)

Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid by Gavin Brown and Helen Yaffe (Routledge 2018)

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New Books: October 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

October 2017

American’s West: A History, 1890-1950by David M. Wrobel (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planningby Melody L. Hoffmann (University of Nebraska Press 2016)

Black Dragon River: A Journey Down The Amur River Between Russia and Chinaby Dominic Ziegler (Penguin Books 2016)

The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering by Nicholas De Genova (Duke University Press 2017)

Cities For Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics by Gavin Shatkin (Cornell University Press 2017)

Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton (Polity Books 2017)

Delicious Geography: From Place to Plateby Gary Fuller and T.M. Reddekopp (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

Dialogues on Power and Space by Carl Schmitt (Polity Books 2015)

Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policyby Jason Dittmer (Duke University Press 2017)

Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Downing (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges by Federico Ferretti, Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre, Anthony Ince, Francisco Toro (eds.) (Routledge 2018)

In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Affect, Materiality and Meaning Making by Luke Bennett (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History by Josef Benson (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2018)

Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Placeby Dara Downey, Ian Kinane, and Elizabeth Parker (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literatureby Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira (eds.) (University of Minnesota Press 2017)

Life in the Age of Drone Warfare by Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.) (Duke University Press Books 2017)

Limits of The Known by David Roberts (W. W. Norton & Company 2016)

Oil, 2nd Edition by Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon (Polity Books 2017)

The Red Atlas: How The Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent (University Of Chicago Press 2017)

Scaling Identities: Nationalism and Territoriality by Guntram H. Herb and David H. Kaplan (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

Sugar by Ben Richardson (Polity Books 2015)

Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globeby Sumathi Ramaswamy (University Of Chicago Press 2017)

Theorising Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narrativesby Ian Kinane (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Transnationalism and the Jews: Culture, History and Prophecy by Jacob Egholm Feldt (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

What’s in a Name?: Talking about Urban Peripheries by Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms (eds.) (University of Toronto Press 2017)

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New Books: September 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

September 2017

Atlas of Untamed Places: An Extraordinary Journey Through Our Wild World by Chris Fitch (Aurum Press 2017)

The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy Of Migration Tactics of Bordering by Nicholas De Genova (eds.) (Duke University Press 2017)

Foucault: The Birth of Powerby Stuart Elden (Polity Press 2017)

Foucault’s Last Decade by Stuart Elden (Polity Press 2016)

Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics: Third Edition by Ben Heijdra (Oxford University Press 2017)

The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De Leon (University of California Press 2015)

Limits of The Known by David Roberts (W. W. Norton Company Inc. 2018)

Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell (Chronicle Books 2017)

The Magnificent Nahanni: The Struggle to Protect a Wild Place  by Gordon Nelson (University of Regina Press 2017)

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugar Bose and Ayesha Jalal (Routledge 2018)

Nostradamus: A Healer of Souls in the Renaissanceby Denis Crouzet (Policy Press 2017)

Rethinking International Skilled Migration by Micheline van Riemsdijk, Qingfang Wang (eds.) (Routledge 2017)

Seeing Like a City by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift (Polity Press 2016)

Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook by David Smith, Nathan Strout, Christian Harder, Steven Moore, Tim Ormsby, and Thomas Balstrøm (ESRI Press 2017)

Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia by Timothy Neale (University of Hawai’i Pess 2017)

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New Books: August 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

August 2017

Beyond Control:The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexicoby James F. Barnett Jr. (University Press of Mississippi 2017)

The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies In An Urban Age by Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis (Cornell University Press 2017

Climate Change in Practice: Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises by Robert L. Wilby (Cambridge University Press 2017)

The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite by Alessandro Busà (Oxford University Press 2017)

Documents That Changed the Way We Live by Joseph Janes (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

The Driftless Reader by Curt Meine Keefe Keeley (eds.) (University of Wisconsin Press 2017)

Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil (MIT Press 2017)

Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson (Verso Books 2017)

Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour (Polity Press 2017)

Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire by Gregory L. Simon (University of California Press 2017)

Florida Weather and Climate: More Than Just Sunshine by Jennifer M. Collins, Robert V. Rohli, and Charles H. Paxton (University Press of Florida 2017)

From California’s Gold Fields to the Mendocino Coast A Settlement History Across Time and Place by Samuel M. Otterstrom (University of Nevada Press 2017)

Hamilton and Philosophy: Revolutionary Thinking by Aaron Rabinowitz and Robert Arp (eds.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2017)

Indigeneity and the Sacred: Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americasby Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner(eds.) (Berghahn Books 2017)

Key Thinkers on Cities by Regan Koch and Alan Latham (eds.) (Sage 2017)

Los Zetas Inc: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (University of Texas Press 2017)

Making Spatial Decisions Using ArcGIS Pro: A Workbook by Kathryn Keranen and Robert Kolvoord (eds.) (ESRI Press 2017)

Mr. Robot and Philosophy: Beyond Good and Evil Corp by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (Open Court Publishing Company 2017)

The Nature of Spectacle: On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism by Jim Igoe (University of Arizona Press 2017)

New Zealand Landscape: Behind the Scene by Paul Williams (Elsevier 2017)

The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action by Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman (eds.) (University of California Press 2017)

Newspaper City: Toronto’s Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935 by Phillip Gordon Mackintosh (University of Toronto Press 2017)

A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones (Oxford University Press 2017)

Postcards From the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s-1950s by Daniel D. Arreola (University of Arizona Press 2017)

Science and Sensibility: Negotiating an Ecology of Place by Michael Vincent McGinnis (University of California Press 2017)

Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg (eds.)  (University of Virginia Press 2017)

Springer Handbook of Global Navigation Satellite Systems by Peter Teunissen and Oliver Montenbruck (eds.) (Springer International Publishing 2017)

Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?by Anthony Giddens (Polity Press 2017)

Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands by Zoltan Grossman (University of Washington Press 2017)

Where the Land Meets the Sea: Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru by Tom D. Dillehay (ed.) (University of Texas Press 2017)

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New Books: July 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

July 2017

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt (Eds) (University of Minnesota Press 2017)

The Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Cultural History by Peter B. Dedek (LSU Press 2017)

Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton (Polity Press 2017)

The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity by Andrew Brooks (ZED Books 2017)

Footprints in Paradise: Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa by Andrea E. Murray  (Berghahn Books 2017)

Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken by S. Ravi Rajan (Ed.) (University of Virginia Press 2017)

Geographies of Growth: Innovations, Networks and Collaborations by Charlie Karlsson, Martin Andersson, and Lina Bjerke (Eds) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)

Horacio Capel: Pensar la ciudad en tiempos de crisis by Núria Benach and Ana Fani A. Carlos (Eds.) (Icaria Editorial 2016)

Institutional Investors in Global Markets by Gordon L. Clark and Ashby HB Monk (Oxford University Press 2017)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Lands and Peoples (Sixth Edition) by David L. Clawson and Benjamin F. Tillman (Oxford University Press 2017)

Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red by Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta, and David Berry (Eds) (PM Press 2017)

The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy: Subversive Reports from Another Reality by Bruce Krajewski and Joshua Heter (Eds) (Open Court Publishing Company 2017)

Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge by Jess Bier (MIT Press 2017)

Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China by Anna Lora-Wainwright (MIT Press 2017)

A Short Environmental History of Italy: Variety and Vulnerability by Gabriella Corona (The White Horse Press 2017)

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America by Melanie A. Kiechle (University of Washington Press 2017)

Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest by Paul Routledge (Pluto Press 2017)

Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East: Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace by Christopher Ward and Sandra Ruckstuhl (I.B. Tauris 2017)

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New Books: June 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

June 2017

Advancing the Civil Rights Movement: Race and Geography of Life Magazine’s Visual Representation, 1954-1965 by Michael DiBari Jr. (Lexington Books 2017)

All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the US Borderlands by Stephanie Elizondo Griest (University of North Carolina Press 2017)

The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk by Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsay A. Freeman (eds.) (University of North Carolina Press 2017)

Climate Change in Practice: Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises by Robert L. Wilby (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Clouds: Nature and Culture by Richard Hamblyn (CSIRO 2017)

Crossing the Line by Bibi Belford (Sky Pony Press 2017)

Deterritorializing/Reterittorializing: Critical Geography of Educational Reform by Nancy Ares, Edward Buendia, and Robert Helfenbein (eds.) (Sense Publishers 2017)

Evergreen: The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs by Evergreen Museum & Library (John Hopkins University Press 2017)

From California’s Gold Fields to the Mendocino Coast: A Settlement History across Time and Place by Samuel M. Otterstrom (University of Nevada Press 2017)

Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China by Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng (MIT Press 2017)

Global Urban Agriculture by Antionette WinklerPrins (ed.) (CABI 2017)

Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State by Shiri Pasternak (University of Minnesota Press 2017)

Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers: The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway by Juliane Riese (Berghahn Books 2017)

Heading Out: A History of American Camping by Terence Young (Cornell University Press 2017)

The Human Atlas of Europe: A Continent United in Diversity by Dimitris Ballas, Daniel Dorling, and Benjamin Hennig (Policy Press 2017)

Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle, and Polar Exploration by Huw Lewis-Jones (I.B. Tauris 2017)

Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies by Hilary Brown and Byron Stigge (MIT Press 2017)

Life in the Himalaya: An Ecosystem at Risk by Maharaj K. Pandit (Harvard University Press 2017)

Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity by Eric J. Pido (Duke University Press 2017)

The Next Social Contract: Animals, the Anthropocene, and Biopolotics by Wayne Gabardi (Temple University Press 2017)

Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty by Scott W. Allard (Russell Sage Foundation 2017)

Principles of Radiometric Dating by Kunchithapadam Gopalan (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Rethinking International Skilled Migration by Micheline van Riemsdijk and Qingfang Wang (eds.) (Routledge 2017)

Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century by John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins (Indiana University Press 2017)

Spatial Analysis of Coastal Environments by Sarah M. Hamylton (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Suspect Red by L.M. Elliott (Disney Hyperion 2017)

Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolutionary by Johnathan Lerner (OR Books 2017)

The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness by Monica R. Gisolfi (University of Georgia Press 2017)

Tap: Unlocking the Mobile Economy by Anindya Ghose (MIT Press 2017)

Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife: A Biosocial Approach by Catherine M. Hill, Amanda D. Webber, and Nancy E.C. Priston (eds.) (Berghahn Books 2017)

Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization by Andrea L. Smalley (John Hopkins University Press 2017)

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New Books: May 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

May 2017

After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality by Heather Bushy, J. Bradford DeLong and Marshall Steinbaum (eds.) (Harvard University Press 2017)

Beyond Control: The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico by James F. Barnett Jr. (University Press of Mississippi 2017)

Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory by Sarah J. Ray and Kevin Maier (eds.) (University of Alaska Press 2017)

Documents That Changed the Way We Live by Joseph Janes (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

From California’s Gold Fields to the Mendocino Coast: A Settlement History Across Time and Place by Samuel M. Otterstrom (University of Nevada Press 2017)

Geographical Models with Mathematica by Andre Dauphine (ISTE Press 2017)

Icefall: Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing Planet by John All and John Balzar (Public Affairs 2017)

Newspaper City: Toronto’s Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935 by Phillip Gordon Mackintosh (University of Toronto Press 2017)

Science and Sensibility: Negotiating an Ecology of Place by Michael Vincent McGinnis (University of California Press 2016)

Understanding Spatial Media by Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault and Matthew W. Wilson (SAGE Publishing 2017)

Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese Americans by Mark J. VanLandingham (Russell Sage Foundation 2017)

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New Books: April 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

April 2017

The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting by Alexander Vasudevan (Verso Books 2017)

 Beans: A History by Ken Albala (Bloomsbury 2017)

The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years by Robert M. Thorson (Harvard 2017)

Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath: Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive by Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Eva Fogelman, and Dalia Ofer (eds.) (Berghahn Books 2017)

Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta by Clyde Woods (Verso Books 2017)

Earth System History, Fourth Edition by Steven M. Stanley and John A. Luczaj (W.H. Freeman 2015)

Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands by Stuart Hall and Bill Schwarz (ed.) (Duke University Press 2017)

Farmland Preservation: Land for Future Generations by Wayne J. Caldwell, Stew Hilts, and Bronwynne Wilton (eds.) (University of Manitoba Press 2017)

The Great Regression by Heinrich Geiselberger (ed.) (Polity Books 2017)

Handbook on Geographies of Technology by Barney Warf (ed.) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)

Hydraulic City: Water & the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai by Nikhil Anand (Duke University Press 2017)

Kanaka Hawai’i Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory by Renee Pualani Louis (Ohio State University Press 2017)

Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy by John Crowe Ransom and Jason Peters (ed.) (University of Notre Dame Press 2017)

The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Carlos Aguirre and Charles F. Walker (Duke University Press 2017)

The Long Shadows: A Global Environmental History of the Second World War by Simo Laakonen, Richard P. Tucker, and Timo Vuorisalo (eds.) (Oregon State University Press 2017)

Natural Hazards: Explanation and Integration Second Edition by Burrell E. Montz, Graham A. Tobin, and Ronald R. Hagelman, III (Guilford Press 2017)

 Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps by Stephen J. Hornsby (University of Chicago Press 2017)

 A Research Agenda for Cities by John Rennie Short (ed.) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)

Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies by Constance Bantman and Bert Altena (eds.) (PM Press 2017)

Reimagining Home in the 21st Century by Justine Lloyd and Ellie Vasta (eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)

 San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Siteby Lisa Pinley Covert (University of Nebraska Press 2017)

 Space After Deleuze by Arun Saldanha (Bloomsbury 2017)

 Unsteady Flow In Open Channels by Jurjen Battjes and Robert Jan Labeur (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Volcanoes: Encounters through the Ages by David M. Pyle (Bodleian Library Press 2017)

Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Fremont by John L. Kessell (University of New Mexico Press 2017)

 World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives, Seventh Edition by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, Alex Pulsipher, and Ola Johansson (MacMillan Education 2017)

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New Books: March 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to current public health policies which have prompted the closing of most offices, we are unable to access incoming books at this time. We are working on a solution during this transition and will continue our new books processing as soon as we can. In the meantime, please feel free to peruse previous books from our archived lists.

February 2020

The Saguaro Cactus : A Natural History by David Yetman, Alberto Burquez, Kevin Hultine, and Michael Sanderson (University of Arizona Press 2020)

Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater by Melody Jue (Duke University Press 2020)

Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold by Sara Smith (Rutgers University Press 2020)

Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray (Stanford University Press 2020)

Assembling Moral Mobilities : Cycling, Cities and the Common Good by Nicholas A Scott (University of Nebraska Press 2020)

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