New Books for Geographers

New Books: April 2018

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 Books, Department 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.

April 2018

After Extinction by Richard Grusin (ed.) (University of Minnesota Press 2018)

Brazil and Climate Change: Beyond the Amazon by Eduardo Viola and Matías Franchini (Routledge 2018)

Buildings of New Orleans by Karen Kingsley and Lake Douglas (Univeristy of Virginia Press 2018)

China: A Geographical Perspective by David W.S Wong, Kenneth K.K Wong, Him Chung, and James J. Wang (Guilford Press 2018)

Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life by Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson (University of California Press 2018)

Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution by Jonathan Silvertown (University of Chicago Press 2018)

Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America by Michel Gobat (Harvard University Press 2018)

Endless Caverns: An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia by Douglas Reichert Powell (University of North Carolina Press 2018)

The Epochs of Nature by Georges-Louis Leclerc (trans. & eds. Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, and Mateusz Zalasiewicz) (Univeristy of Chicago Press 2018)

Geography of Small Islands: Outposts of Globalization by Beate M. W. Ratter (Springer International Publishing 2018)

George Washington’s Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic by Adam Costanzo (University of Georgia Press 2018)

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore (University of California Press 2018)

Immigrant Pastoral: Midwestern Landscapes and Mexican-American Neighborhoods by Susan Dieterlen (Routledge 2015)

Island, River, and Field: Landscape Archaeology in the Llanos de Mojos by John H. Walker (University of New Mexico Press 2018)

Linking Gender to Climate Change Impacts in the Global South by Shouraseni Sen Roy (Springer International Publishing 2018)

Mapping the Middle East by Zayde Antrim (Reaktion Books 2018)

The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Matthew Kelly, Claudia Leal, and Emily Wakild (eds.) (Routledge 2017)

Navigating Ethnicity: Segregation, Placemaking, and Difference by David H. Kaplan (Rowman and Littlefield 2018)

Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area by Richard A. Walker (PM Press 2018)

Plantation Crops, Plunder, and Power: Evolution and Exploitation by James F. Hancock (Routledge 2017)

Public Privates: Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces by Marcia R. England (University of Nebraska Press 2018)

Religion, Space, and the Atlantic World by John Corrigan (ed.) (University of South Carolina Press 2018)

Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance After Katrina by Aaron Schneider (University of Minnesota Press 2018)

Report of an Inquiry into an Injustice: Begade Shutagot’ine and the Sahtu Treaty by Peter Kulchyski (University of Manitoba Press 2018)

Rivers of the Anthropocene by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck (eds.) (University of California Press 2018)

Ciudad Juárez: Saga of a Legendary Border City by Oscar J. Martínez (University of Arizona Press 2018)

Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought by Christian Abrahamsson (University of Nebraska Press 2018)

Wired Into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier by James Schwoch (University of Illinois Press 2018)

Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants by Hilary Parsons Dick (University of Texas Press 2018)

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New Books for Geographers

New Books: March 2018

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 Books, Department 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.

March 2018

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott (Yale University Press 2017)

America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census by Joel Perlmann (Harvard University Press 2018)

The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States by Geoffrey L. Buckley and Yolonda Youngs (eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2018)

Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters by Dwight B. Billingsand Ann E. Kingsolver (eds.) (The University Press of Kentucky 2018)

Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia University Press 2017)

Carving Out The Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. by Amanda Huron (University of Minnesota Press 2018)

Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present by Benjamin Lieberman and Elizabeth Gordon (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2018)

Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada by Margaret Wickens Pearce (Canadian-American Center 2018)

Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds by Arturo Escobar (Duke University Press 2017)

Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco by Koenraad Bogaert (University of Minnesota Press 2018)

Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest by Megan Ybarra (University of California Press 2018)

Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba by Luis Martínez-Fernández(University of Florida Press 2018)

Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition by Jim Mac Laughlin (Pluto Press 2016, https://www.plutobooks.com)

Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia by Claudia Leal (The University of Arizona Press 2018)

Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco by Penelope Anthias (Cornell University Press 2018)

Making New Nepal: From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics by Amanda Thérèse Snellinger (University of Washington Press 2018)

Managing Northern Europe’s Forests: Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology by K. Jan Oosthoek and Richard Hölzl (eds.) (Berghahn Books 2018)

A Natural History of the Mojave Desert by Lawrence R. Walker and Frederick H. Landau (The University of Arizona Press 2018)

Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes by Julie Michelle Klinger (Cornell University Press 2018)

Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City by Neil Smith, Don Mitchell, Erin Siodmak, JenJoy Roybal, Marnie Brady, and Brendan O’Malley (eds.) (University of Georgia Press 2018)

Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment by Harold L. Platt (Temple University Press 2018)

Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity by Paul Readman (Cambridge University Press 2018)

Thin on the Ground: Soil Science in the Tropics, Second Edition  by Anthony Young (Land Resource Books 2017)

Thinking Big Data in Geography: New Regimes, New Research by Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert, and Andrew Shears (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press 2018)

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New Books: February 2018

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 Books, Department 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 2018

Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters by Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver (eds.) (University Press of Kentucky 2018)

Atlas of the 2016 Elections by Robert H. Watrel, Ryan Weichelt, Fiona M. Davidson, John Heppen, Erin H. Fouberg, J. Clark Archer, Richard L. Morrill, Fred M. Shelley, and Kenneth C. Martis (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

Barrier Dynamics and Response to Changing Climateby Laura J. Moore, A. Brad Murray (eds.) (Springer International Publishing 2018)

Carnival in Louisiana: Celebrating Mardi Gras from the French Quarter to the Red Riverby Brian J. Costello (LSU Press 2017)

Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico: Art, Tourism, and Nation Building under Lázaro Cárdenas by Jennifer Jolly (University of Texas Press 2018)

Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negevby Alexander Kedar, Ahmad Amara, Oren Yiftachel (Stanford University Press 2018)

Ethnic Landscapes of America by John A. Cross (Springer International Publishing 2017)

Explorations in Place Attachment by Jeffrey S. Smith (ed.) (Routledge 2018)

Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature by Strachan Donnelley (University of Kentucky Press 2018)

Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond by Lisa Funnell & Klaus Dodds (Palgrave Macmillan 2017)

The GIS 20: Essential Skills, 3rd Edition by Gina Clemmer (ESRI Press 2017)

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

The Interior West: A Fire Survey by Stephen J. Pyne (University of Arizona Press 2017)

Limits of the Known by David Roberts (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2018)

Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason by David Harvey (Oxford University Press 2018)

Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations by Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann (eds.) (Berghahn 2017)

A Natural History of the Mojave Desert by Lawrence R. Walker and Frederick H. Landau (The University of Arizona Press 2018)

No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacementby Elizabeth Cullen Dunn (Cornell University Press 2018)

Phantom Skies and Shifting Ground: Landscape, Culture, and Rephotography in Eadweard Muybridge’s Illustrations of Central America by Byron Wolfe and Scott Brady (Temple University Press 2017)

Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants by Ram Chandra, N.K Dubey, and Vineet Kumar (eds.) (CRC Press 2018)

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

Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s–1950s by Daniel D. Arreola (The University of Arizona Press 2018)

The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils To Lunar Landscapesby Julie Michelle Klinger (Cornell University Press 2018)

The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development by Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (ed.) (University of Pittsburgh Press 2018)

Small Flying Drones: Applications for Geographic Observation by Gianluca Casagrande, András Sik, Gergely Szabó (eds.) (Springer International Publishing 2018)

The Ways of the Worldby David Harvey (Oxford University Press 2016)

Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by Urmi Engineer Willoughby (LSU Press 2017)

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New Geography Books: January 2018

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related fields. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should contact the Editor-in-Chief, Kent Mathewson (kentm [at] lsu [dot] edu). Listed below are the books received from publishers in the last month.

January 2018

Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above by Caren Kaplan (Duke University Press 2018)

Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification by Maria Krysan and Kyle Crowder (Russell Sage Foundation 2017)

Ethics in Everyday Places: Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury by Tom Koch (The MIT Press 2017)

Food & Place: A Critical Exploration by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, and Fernando J. Bosco (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2018)

Handbook on the Geographies of Energy by Barry D. Solomon, and Kirby E. Calvert (eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)

Historical Population Atlas of the Czech Lands by Martin Ouředníček, Jana Jíchová, and Lucie Pospíšilová (eds.) (Karolinum Press 2017)

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King (University of Minnesota Press 2018)

The Making of America’s Culture Regions by Richard L. Nostrand (Rowman and Littlefield 2018)

Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine by Alex de Waal (Polity Press 2018)

New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map by Matthew W. Wilson (University of Minnesota Press 2017)

P’ungsu: A Study of Geomancy in Korea by Hong-Key Yoon (ed.) (State University of New York Press 2017)

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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 Books, Department 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 Books, Department 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 Books, Department 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 Books, Department 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 Books, Department 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 for Geographers

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 Books, Department 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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