Kashi Singh

Professor Kashi Nath Singh, the luminous figure of Indian Geography, passed away on Thursday July 18, 2013. He was born in a village in Bhojpur district of Bihar on January 1, 1932. After high school he moved to Varanasi and joined Banaras Hindu University, from where earned his bachelor’s degree, M.A. (1956), and Ph.D. (1963).

In September 1957, Prof. Singh joined the Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University as Lecturer, and was promoted to Reader in 1968. He was also professor and head, department of geography at Patna University (Bihar). In 1978 returned as Professor of Integrated Area Development in the department of geography at Banaras Hindu University, which he cherished till 1993. During 1991-93 (two terms), he had served as member of the Board of Directors, U.S. Educational Foundation in India (U.S.E.F.I.), New Delhi.

He published 6 textbooks, 11 co-edited volumes, and over 70 research articles. His visits abroad included East Africa, Anglo-America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Bali, U.K. and U.S.A. He was also an Executive Member of the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau, London (1968-1972 and 1976-80); Asst. Secretary, NGSI, and was Life Member of national bodies like NGSI, NAGI, NEGS, IIG, CIG, and UBBP. He was honoured to be the President, National Association of Geographers India (NAGI), 1985-86, and Institute of Indian Geographers (IIG), 1991-92. During November 1993 – June 2008, he was Professor of Geography in the College of Social Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. After returning from Ethiopia, he lived in Varanasi and sometimes passed his holidays with his doctor son and his family in the campus of Banaras Hindu University.

During 1964-66 he was a Fulbright Scholar at Rutgers University of New Jersey; and in 1965-66 he served as Associate Professor at East Stroudsburg State College/ University, East Stroudsburg PA. In this period he studied and collaborated with Prof. John E. Brush (1919-2007), who was already influenced by the researches of Prof. Singh as an external examiner of his PhD thesis on “Rural Market and Rurban Centres in Eastern Uttar Pradesh (India).”

Professor K.N. Singh specialised in the studies of rural settlements, historical geography and planning, economic geography, and social geography. He was one of the two India-based geographers to have published in the Annals, Association of American Geographers (vol. 58, no. 2, 1968: pp. 203-220), entitled “Territorial basis of Town and village settlement in Eastern U.P., India.” David E. Sopher in his essay, “Towards a Rediscovery of India: Thoughts on some neglected geography,” in, Marvin W. Mikesell, ed. Geographers Abroad (University of Chicago, Chicago, 1973: pp. 110-133) appraised Prof. Singh’s contribution (p. 123) as representative of the Varanasi school in rural settlement and urban morphology. Anthropologist Richard G. Fox, in his book, Urban India: Society, Space and Image (1970, Duke University) wrote about his classical paper (AAAG, 58, no. 2, 1968): “Our papers have different emphases and in several places in the text some criticism is made of K.N. Singh’s interpretation. However, these differing viewpoints and interpretations in no way remove my intellectual debt to Dr. Singh, right only for the paper cited above, but for his [other] original paper on the subject.” Fox in another of his book, Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule (UCP, Berkeley, & OUP Delhi, 1971), writes: “Recent work by Bernard Cohn, K.N. Singh, M.C. Pradhan, etc. has indicated the important role played by unilineal kin groups of locally dominant Kshatriya ‘Castes’ in the lower level political organisation of traditional North India.” Some of his papers were prescribed in the graduate courses in Hiroshima University, and are highlighted by famous Japanese scholar Prof. Hiroshi Ishida in his book, A Cultural Geography of the Great Plains of India (Univ. of Hiroshima Press, 1972).

The absence of Prof. Singh will be always felt by Indian geography, and we will miss him for many years to come; however his message, insights and visions are always with us.

Rana P.B. Singh
Department of Geography
Faculty of Science
Banaras Hindu University

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New Books for Geographers

New Books: July 2013

July 15, 2013

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 2013

A Cultural History of Jewish Dress. Silverman, Eric. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $30.99 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-286-8).
Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives. de Waal Malefyt, Timothy and Robert J. Morais. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-85785-202-1).
An Historical Environmental and Cultural Atlas of County Donegal. Mac Laughlin, Jim and Sean Beattie, eds. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press 2013. $£49 cloth (ISBN 978-185918-494-3).
An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America. Witgen, Michael. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013. $26.5 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8122-4365-9).
Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method. Okely, Judith. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84520-603-1).
Archaeology and Anthropology: Past, Present and Future. Shankland, David, ed. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $99.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-84788-966-9).
Arid and Semi-Arid Geomorphology. Goudie, Andrew S. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2013. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-107-00554-9).
Atlas of Global Development: A Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Challenges, 4^th edition. World Bank. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publishing 2013. $29.95 electronic (ISBN 978-0-8213-9757-2).
Body Style. Winge, Therèsa M. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-023-9).
The Chinese Fashion Industry: An Ethnographic Approach. Zhao, Jianhua. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-935-5).
Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas. Kennedy, Roger G. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-4346-0).
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History. King, Richard J. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-61168-225-0).
The English Breakfast: The Biography of a National Meal with Recipes. O’Connor, Kaori. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-85785-454-4).
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures. Kawamura, Yuniya. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2012. $34.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-947-8).
Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Schmidt, Elizabeth. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2013. $27.99 paper (ISBN 978-0-521-70903-3).
Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema. Eltringham, Nigel. New York, NY: Berghahn Books 2013. $70 cloth (ISBN 978-1-78238-073-3).
The Governance of Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics and Ethics. Held. David, Angus Fane-Herbey and Marika Theros. New York, NY: Polity Books 2011. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5202-3).
The Human Mosaic: A Cultural Approach to Human Geography, 12th Edition. Domosh, Mona, Roderick P. Neumann, Patricia L. Price, and Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman 2013. $146.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4292-4018-5).
Hunting, Fishing, and Environmental Virtue: Reconnecting Sportsmanship and Conservation. List, Charles J. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press 2013. $21.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-714-7).
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932. van Allen, Gary. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press 2013. $55 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8165-2118-0).
Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited: Landscape Views Across Time. Lindholm, Robert. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $45 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-3831-2).
Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows. Monmonier, Mark. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press 2012. $ cloth (ISBN 978-0-8156-1004-5).
Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest. Burke, Thomas E. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press 2013. $35.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-685-0).
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk: Beyond Fragmented Responses. O’Brien, Geoff and Phil O’Keefe. New York, NY: Routledge 2014. $44.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-415-60094-1).
Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962. Griffin, Dori. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press 2013. $55 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8165-0932-4).
Museums: A Visual Anthropology. Bouquet, Mary. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84520-812-7).
Photgraphy and Exploration. Ryan, James R. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-78023-100-6).
The Political Ecology of Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behavior in Eleven Countries. Sellers, Jeffrey M., Daniel Kübler, Melanie Walter-Rogg and R. Alan Walks, eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2013. $45.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-907301-44-5).
Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism. Lynch, Annette. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $39.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-628-6).
Public Culture: Infrastructures of the Urban. Calhoun, Craig, Richard Sennett, and Harel Shapira, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2013. $ paper (ISBN 978-082236788-8).
The Quest for the Golden Trout: Environmental Loss and America’s Iconic Fish. Thompson, Douglas M. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-61168-319-6).
Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500–1888. Nellis, Eric. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press 2013. $22.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4426-0555-8).
Sugar Heritae and Tourism in Transition. Jolliffe, Lee. Bristol, England: Channel View Publications 2012. $49.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84541-386-6).
Time and Time Again: History, Rephotography, and Preservation in the Chaco World. Lippard, Lucy R. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-89013-577-8).
Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country. Philpott, William. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-295-99273-0).
Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide. Dear Michael. New York, NY: Oxford University Press 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-19-979798-8).

Bertha Becker

Bertha Becker, a pioneering Brazilian geographer, died on July 13, 2013. She was 82.

The professor emeritus at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro specialized in Amazonian issues. Her lifelong research, which focused on the political geography of Brazil, took Becker throughout every region of her native country. Extensive fieldwork shaped her findings and unique view of environmental conditions caused by human occupation and devastation.

Becker was a graduate of the University of Brazil, receiving her degree in geography and history in 1952. She completed her doctorate in 1970 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where Becker became a long-time professor. She also conducted post-doctorial studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s urban studies and planning department.

During her career, Becker received a number of honors. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lyon in France. She was presented the Carlos Chagas Filho Scientific Merit award. The American Geographical Society granted her the David Livingstone Centenary Medal.

Becker had more than 180 published works, including books, articles, papers and chapters. She was a member of the editorial boards of national and international publishers. She consulted for scientific institutions, including the National Research Council, and helped develop public policies for the Ministries of Science and Technology in Brazil.

She served as vice president for both the International Geographical Union (1996-2000) and the International Advisory Group of the Pilot for the Protection of Tropical Forests (1995-2005). She was also a panelist at the United Nations’ Rio + 20 conference.

“Bertha was one of a small cadre of social scientists who brought geography to prominence in Brazil in the late 1950s and ’60s. Her wise opinions will be missed,” noted David J. Robinson, professor of Latin American geography at Syracuse University.

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Annual Meeting

Craft Beer and Tampa

July 8, 2013

Beer needs water and great beer needs great water. Tampa has an abundance of both and ample evidence is found in the burgeoning craft beer scene in the metropolitan area. The 2014 Annual Meeting affords geographers the opportunity to experience this craft beer culture first hand.

Freshwater has long been important to the inhabitants of the Tampa Bay area. Prior to European contact, the Tocobaga people lived in close relationship to the interface between the large Floridan aquifer and the saltwater of Tampa Bay by subsisting on abundant shellfish (Marquardt 1986). Centuries later, major players in the national and global beer markets like Yuengling and Anheuser-Busch InBev, respectively, avail themselves of the clear freshwater flowing from the approximately 260,000 square kilometer aquifer to brew millions of barrels of beer (Ryder 1985).

The consumption of water by the beer industry is a cause for concern. Large players in the industry such as Anheuser-Busch InBev ship large quantities of water out of a local area in bottles, cans, and kegs (Olajire 2012). This consumption drains local supply, but also pollutes it with runoff from the brewing facility. At the scale of a large brewery, this usage can amount to millions of liters of water a year moving out of the local area. Local production and consumption have the potential to keep beer nearby in every sense by minimizing carbon footprints through lower transportation costs and by keeping the beer in the local water cycle. The old saw that “one only rents beer” takes on a different hue when related to local water use.

The past 25 years have seen local beer take off in Tampa “A city the size of Tampa can support a local brewing market,” says Justin Clark, vice-president of Cigar City Brewing. Craft brewing has carved out a special place on the landscape and a vibrant, competitive market has arisen in the metropolitan area. Clark remarks that the ethos among Tampa brewers is to brew the beers that the brewers like and hope that others will like them as well. Competition is welcome. Citing a good relationship with the national brewery Yuengling, Clark says that the local brewing scene welcomes new players in the market and benefits from new breweries opening.

The following breweries, brewpubs, and taprooms are just a sampling of what is out there in Tampa. April is a great time of the year to explore all that the Tampa Bay-St. Petersburg area has to offer with its craft beer culture.

Cigar City Brewing

No other brewery in the Tampa Bay area can touch the legendary status that has been acquired by Cigar City. Started in 2008, CCB is consistently rated one of the top breweries in the country. Their flagship is the Jai Alai IPA, perfect for Florida with its notes of mango and and floral hoppiness. In the summer, the big seasonal hit is the Cucumber Saison, taking the refreshing style and injecting a salad note. This may be odd to some palates, but it follows in the great tradition of Belgian saisons such as Foret to not limit ingredients in order to make a refreshing beer. CCB’s tasting room is pure minimalism, but with beer this good, you do not really care.

Peg’s Cantina

Located in the the oceanside town of Gulfport, just west of Tampa, Peg’s Cantina has been filling bellies with delicious food and tasty brews for almost a decade. The rustic, idyllic setting is the perfect place to take in all that Florida weather has to offer, while cooling off with pints of Freewheel Pale Ale, with its notes of sour pineapple and blood orange rind. Or take the adventurous route and try the Rare DOS, an Imperial Stout. This is also home to what many consider to be the first truly unique Florida style, the Berliner Weisse, a tart sour beer. They are set to open their offshoot brewery, Cycle Brewing, in St. Petersburg in late 2013.

Dunedin Brewery

Tampa Bay brewers do love to be near the water, and this is also true of the oldest continuously operating brewery in Florida, Dunedin Brewery. Named after the town it is located in, Dunedin Brewery has been turning out craft beers for 17 years. Though the town has a Scottish heritage (the name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland), the atmosphere in the tasting room is pure surfer/hippie, with jam and bluegrass bands entertaining the crowds almost nightly. From their Apricot Wheat Ale to their Nitro Stout, they have a range of beers for every palate. Right down the road is the newer 7venth Sun Brewing. While still a young gun, it may be giving Cigar City Brewing a run for its money as best brewery in the area.

Tampa Bay Brewing Company

Located in the heart of Ybor City, Tampa’s historic cigar rolling district, TBBC has been turning out great food and fantastic beers since 1996. What was once a two-story building used to house horses, TBBC is now a drink-and-eat mecca for vacationing families and late night revelers. Their Elephant Foot IPA is seen on taps all over Tampa Bay, and with good reason. It is a slightly peppery and pine resin thirst quencher. The Warthog Weizen is an authentic take on the classic German style – full of clove and lemon notes. Be sure to come hungry to TBBC as well.

The Pour House

For sheer selection and an apt name, The Pour House, located in downtown Tampa near the Channelside District, has you covered. With over 40 taps and hundreds of bottles, they have something for everyone. The room is big and spacious, with plenty of outdoor seating to enjoy the skyline.

The Tampa Bay Brew Bus

This bus service shuttles beer fans around the Tampa area. Available for rentals and pick-up and drop-off, they promise the ultimate craft beer experience with great service and safety in mind.

Toby Martin Applegate

Doug Nelson

DOI: 10.14433/2013.0013

References

Marquardt, William H. “The development of cultural complexity in southwest Florida: Elements of a critique.“Southeastern Archaeology (1986): 63-70.

Olajire, Abass A. “The brewing industry and environmental challenges.” Journal of Cleaner Production (2012). DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.03.003

Ryder, Paul D. “Hydrology of the Floridan aquifer system in west-central Florida.” USGS Professional Paper 1403-F (1985).

President's Column

Doing No Harm

June 24, 2013

Eric Sheppard There is a remarkable disconnect between the many forms of violence stalking the earth, and a lack of attention to and critical reflection on violence by geographers. Arguably, at least in the United States, violence is now so pervasive, at every scale, that we take it for granted. For humans, this ranges from domestic and sexual violence, to mass shootings, acts labeled as terrorism, and warfare (to name just a few). For the more-than-human world, human actions also have increasingly violent effects on species and ecosystems. Geography needs to transcend this disconnect: not just to study geographies of violence, but more importantly to examine the role of Geography in shaping violence. This is essential if we are to challenge its pervasiveness in the name of developing a pro-peace agenda.

From its beginning as a discipline, Geography has been valued by politicians and the military for its potential to shape state violence. It was an important tool for prosecuting colonialism, and until quite recently warfare concerned the occupation and control of geographical space. The spatialities of warfare shifted dramatically with the Vietnam War, as military victory came to be seen as controlling hearts and minds rather than land, but they still matter. Geospatial technologies are essential to the targeted killings from smart bombs and drone warfare. They ease consciences by further separating perpetrator from victim, and make possible the capacity of the U.S. administration to ‘surgically’ eliminate even its own citizens deemed unworthy of prosecution for alleged crimes against the nation-state. The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has identified ‘human geography’ as essential to troop deployment—reminiscent of the controversial Human Terrain System project that forced the American Association of Anthropologists to think carefully about how ethnography can facilitate violence. The Cultural Knowledge Consortium, a joint and interagency effort of the U.S. Government and Department of Defense, is exploring the utility of VGI (volunteered geographic information). The recently disclosed massive National Security Agency surveillance, authorized under the umbrella of the Patriot Act, raises profound privacy concerns precisely because communications data now can be geolocated quickly and precisely.

A related set of questions surround geographical research receiving military and defense funding. Some of this may seem benign (I attended two NATO funded workshops in the 1980s with no obvious military application), but this is undoubtedly a slippery slope. The American Geographical Society is collaborating on a recent large grant from the Department of Defense Minerva Project, to study indigenous communities throughout Central America. Funders’ institutional agendas always shape the research questions asked, and thereby the possible answers, with potentially deep implications for affected communities and places. I thus applaud the current AAG practice of not applying for defense or military research funding; this should become AAG policy. Academics face increasing institutional and personal pressure to seek external funding, and the military is one of the very few growth areas of discretionary funding in the U.S. Federal budget. How will such developments shape disciplinary research priorities and their alignment with means of violence?

Notwithstanding inevitable political and policy disagreement about the necessity, goals and tactics of any war, Geography’s entanglement with military agendas, everywhere, raises profound questions for us all as professional geographers. The phrasing could be stronger, but according to the AAG Statement of Professional Ethics: “research should be conducted only after careful consideration of three fundamental principles: (1) Respect for persons and communities…. (2) Equity…. (3) Beneficence: The maximization of benefits and the minimization of harm from research.” How do we square such ethical obligations with research that is bound up with military agendas and other potentially violent actions? This question demands sustained attention from the Association, engaging across the full spectrum of disciplinary expertise and perspectives. It is part of a broader debate, about whether current principles designed to protect human subjects (the ‘common rule’ that determines IRB procedures in the U.S.) are adequate to the task of ensuring that scholarship is consistent with respect for the integrity of human and more-than-human dignity. Indeed, it is time to revisit the AAG Statement of Professional Ethics (revised in 2009, in light of controversies surrounding a previous research project in Oaxaca—see John Agnew’s June 2009 AAG presidential column), engaging also with our Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group’s declaration on research ethics.

More localized forms of violence are much less joined at the hip with Geography, but nonetheless are intensely geographical in nature and consequence. Gun violence is shaped by geographically variegated attitudes toward gun ownership; inter-scalar and inter-jurisdictional variation in regulating the possession and sale of, and access to guns, and where they can be carried (with U.S. mayors leading the current opposition to gun violence); and by the uneven geographies of shootings themselves. Interpersonal violence plays out through the localized geographies of homes and neighborhoods, shaped also by broader spatio-temporalities of gender, sexuality and racial formations. Geographies of more-than-human violence add complex issues of environmental and climate justice and geo-ethics. Geographical research in these various areas has been uneven, with much still to be done.

The goal of geographical research into violence can and should be far more ambitious than unpacking its geographies and ethical dilemmas. Just as research into environmental justice seeks to go beyond monitoring inequities to seek and advocate for alternatives that obviate the problem (e.g., production without toxics instead of Toxic Release Inventories), so research into violence can bring attention to radical alternatives: pro-peace geographies. “Do no harm” seems a little jaded these days, given its association with Google—one of the more surveillant institutions on the planet. Yet Geography is highly unlikely to attain Google’s influence, and it is not a bad starting point for us.

As I sign off, I want to thank you for the opportunity to serve on your behalf this past year. I have enormously enjoyed the opportunity to meet so many of you for the first time through the regional meetings, and I much appreciated your interest in the plenary session on “Emerging Asias” at the Los Angeles meeting. I have particularly enjoyed the opportunity afforded by the monthly newsletter columns to speak directly to the Association, to cajole and occasionally vent, and to read your responses and interchange with a number of you around my musings. See you in Tampa next April!

Let me know what you think.

–Eric Sheppard

DOI: 10.14433/2013.0011

New Books for Geographers

New Books: June 2013

June 15, 2013

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.

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

July 2013

A Cultural History of Jewish Dress. Silverman, Eric. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $30.99 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-286-8).
Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives. de Waal Malefyt, Timothy and Robert J. Morais. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-85785-202-1).
An Historical Environmental and Cultural Atlas of County Donegal. Mac Laughlin, Jim and Sean Beattie, eds. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press 2013. $£49 cloth (ISBN 978-185918-494-3).
An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America. Witgen, Michael. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013. $26.5 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8122-4365-9).
Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method. Okely, Judith. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84520-603-1).
Archaeology and Anthropology: Past, Present and Future. Shankland, David, ed. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $99.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-84788-966-9).
Arid and Semi-Arid Geomorphology. Goudie, Andrew S. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2013. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-107-00554-9).
Atlas of Global Development: A Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Challenges, 4^th edition. World Bank. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publishing 2013. $29.95 electronic (ISBN 978-0-8213-9757-2).
Body Style. Winge, Therèsa M. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-023-9).
The Chinese Fashion Industry: An Ethnographic Approach. Zhao, Jianhua. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-935-5).
Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas. Kennedy, Roger G. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-4346-0).
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History. King, Richard J. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-61168-225-0).
The English Breakfast: The Biography of a National Meal with Recipes. O’Connor, Kaori. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-85785-454-4).
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures. Kawamura, Yuniya. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2012. $34.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-947-8).
Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Schmidt, Elizabeth. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2013. $27.99 paper (ISBN 978-0-521-70903-3).
Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema. Eltringham, Nigel. New York, NY: Berghahn Books 2013. $70 cloth (ISBN 978-1-78238-073-3).
The Governance of Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics and Ethics. Held. David, Angus Fane-Herbey and Marika Theros. New York, NY: Polity Books 2011. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5202-3).
The Human Mosaic: A Cultural Approach to Human Geography, 12th Edition. Domosh, Mona, Roderick P. Neumann, Patricia L. Price, and Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman 2013. $146.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4292-4018-5).
Hunting, Fishing, and Environmental Virtue: Reconnecting Sportsmanship and Conservation. List, Charles J. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press 2013. $21.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-714-7).
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932. van Allen, Gary. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press 2013. $55 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8165-2118-0).
Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited: Landscape Views Across Time. Lindholm, Robert. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $45 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-3831-2).
Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows. Monmonier, Mark. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press 2012. $ cloth (ISBN 978-0-8156-1004-5).
Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest. Burke, Thomas E. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press 2013. $35.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-685-0).
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk: Beyond Fragmented Responses. O’Brien, Geoff and Phil O’Keefe. New York, NY: Routledge 2014. $44.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-415-60094-1).
Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962. Griffin, Dori. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press 2013. $55 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8165-0932-4).
Museums: A Visual Anthropology. Bouquet, Mary. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84520-812-7).
Photgraphy and Exploration. Ryan, James R. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-78023-100-6).
The Political Ecology of Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behavior in Eleven Countries. Sellers, Jeffrey M., Daniel Kübler, Melanie Walter-Rogg and R. Alan Walks, eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2013. $45.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-907301-44-5).
Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism. Lynch, Annette. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $39.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-628-6).
Public Culture: Infrastructures of the Urban. Calhoun, Craig, Richard Sennett, and Harel Shapira, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2013. $ paper (ISBN 978-082236788-8).
The Quest for the Golden Trout: Environmental Loss and America’s Iconic Fish. Thompson, Douglas M. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-61168-319-6).
Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500–1888. Nellis, Eric. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press 2013. $22.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4426-0555-8).
Sugar Heritae and Tourism in Transition. Jolliffe, Lee. Bristol, England: Channel View Publications 2012. $49.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84541-386-6).
Time and Time Again: History, Rephotography, and Preservation in the Chaco World. Lippard, Lucy R. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-89013-577-8).
Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country. Philpott, William. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-295-99273-0).
Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide. Dear Michael. New York, NY: Oxford University Press 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-19-979798-8).

David J. Campbell

David J. Campbell, professor of geography at Michigan State University, died on May 16, 2013, at the age of 65. After growing up in Wales, he received his B.A. in geography from the University of Bristol U.K. and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Clark University. A faculty member at MSU since 1979, he served as associate dean for research in the College of Social Science. From 1976-1979, he held a post-doctoral position funded by the Rockefeller Foundation at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He also conducted research and lived in many African countries including Kenya, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and Rwanda.

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New Books for Geographers

New Books: May 2013

May 15, 2013

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.

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

July 2013

A Cultural History of Jewish Dress. Silverman, Eric. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $30.99 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-286-8).
Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives. de Waal Malefyt, Timothy and Robert J. Morais. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-85785-202-1).
An Historical Environmental and Cultural Atlas of County Donegal. Mac Laughlin, Jim and Sean Beattie, eds. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press 2013. $£49 cloth (ISBN 978-185918-494-3).
An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America. Witgen, Michael. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013. $26.5 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8122-4365-9).
Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method. Okely, Judith. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84520-603-1).
Archaeology and Anthropology: Past, Present and Future. Shankland, David, ed. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $99.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-84788-966-9).
Arid and Semi-Arid Geomorphology. Goudie, Andrew S. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2013. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-107-00554-9).
Atlas of Global Development: A Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Challenges, 4^th edition. World Bank. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publishing 2013. $29.95 electronic (ISBN 978-0-8213-9757-2).
Body Style. Winge, Therèsa M. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-023-9).
The Chinese Fashion Industry: An Ethnographic Approach. Zhao, Jianhua. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-935-5).
Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas. Kennedy, Roger G. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-4346-0).
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History. King, Richard J. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-61168-225-0).
The English Breakfast: The Biography of a National Meal with Recipes. O’Connor, Kaori. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-85785-454-4).
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures. Kawamura, Yuniya. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2012. $34.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-947-8).
Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Schmidt, Elizabeth. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2013. $27.99 paper (ISBN 978-0-521-70903-3).
Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema. Eltringham, Nigel. New York, NY: Berghahn Books 2013. $70 cloth (ISBN 978-1-78238-073-3).
The Governance of Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics and Ethics. Held. David, Angus Fane-Herbey and Marika Theros. New York, NY: Polity Books 2011. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5202-3).
The Human Mosaic: A Cultural Approach to Human Geography, 12th Edition. Domosh, Mona, Roderick P. Neumann, Patricia L. Price, and Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman 2013. $146.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4292-4018-5).
Hunting, Fishing, and Environmental Virtue: Reconnecting Sportsmanship and Conservation. List, Charles J. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press 2013. $21.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-714-7).
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932. van Allen, Gary. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press 2013. $55 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8165-2118-0).
Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited: Landscape Views Across Time. Lindholm, Robert. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $45 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-3831-2).
Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows. Monmonier, Mark. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press 2012. $ cloth (ISBN 978-0-8156-1004-5).
Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest. Burke, Thomas E. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press 2013. $35.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-685-0).
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk: Beyond Fragmented Responses. O’Brien, Geoff and Phil O’Keefe. New York, NY: Routledge 2014. $44.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-415-60094-1).
Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962. Griffin, Dori. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press 2013. $55 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8165-0932-4).
Museums: A Visual Anthropology. Bouquet, Mary. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84520-812-7).
Photgraphy and Exploration. Ryan, James R. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-78023-100-6).
The Political Ecology of Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behavior in Eleven Countries. Sellers, Jeffrey M., Daniel Kübler, Melanie Walter-Rogg and R. Alan Walks, eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2013. $45.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-907301-44-5).
Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism. Lynch, Annette. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $39.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-628-6).
Public Culture: Infrastructures of the Urban. Calhoun, Craig, Richard Sennett, and Harel Shapira, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2013. $ paper (ISBN 978-082236788-8).
The Quest for the Golden Trout: Environmental Loss and America’s Iconic Fish. Thompson, Douglas M. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-61168-319-6).
Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500–1888. Nellis, Eric. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press 2013. $22.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4426-0555-8).
Sugar Heritae and Tourism in Transition. Jolliffe, Lee. Bristol, England: Channel View Publications 2012. $49.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84541-386-6).
Time and Time Again: History, Rephotography, and Preservation in the Chaco World. Lippard, Lucy R. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-89013-577-8).
Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country. Philpott, William. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-295-99273-0).
Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide. Dear Michael. New York, NY: Oxford University Press 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-19-979798-8).

Wilbur Zelinsky

Wilbur Zelinsky, professor emeritus at Penn State University, died on May 4, 2013, at age 91. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1921. Described as a cultural geography icon and explorer of American life and significance, he used his eyes to observe the differences in human landscape, while studying and using data to find deeper information. He inspired countless students to examine culture, literature and music.

From 1959-1973, he held many levels of leadership roles for the Association of American Geographers, including president from 1972-1973.

During his career, AAG recognized his contributions and achievements. In 2006, Zelinsky was given the AAG Presidential Achievement Award for his long and distinguished career in geography; for the influence of his publications across a wide range of topics in human geography; and for his early and fervent support for the incorporation of more women into the discipline. He received the AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize in 1992 for his book, The Cultural Geography of the United States. And in 1966, the association awarded him Honors for Meritorious Contributions.

During AAG’s 2005 annual meeting, the Cultural Geography Specialty Group honored him at special sessions (I and II). The contents of those seminars resulted in a special tribute issue of The Geographical Review.

Joseph Wood, professor and provost at the University of Baltimore once noted, “For six decades Wilbur Zelinsky has been an original and authentic voice in American cultural geography. His curiosity is endless, his intellectual appetite voracious. He seeks human meaning in every facet of material life and every corner of the American scene.”

Among Zelinsky’s many awards, he also received a Guggenheim Fellowship for geography and environmental studies in the social sciences in 1980 and the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society in 2001.

His large body of work includes more than 200 books, atlases, chapters, articles, reviews, reports and other writings.

He received his bachelor’s degree in 1944 and his doctorate in 1953 from the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 with a master’s degree.

During World War II, he served as a map draftsman with several companies. He then worked as a terrain analyst for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in occupied Germany. After the war, Zelinsky accepted an appointment from 1948 to 1952 at the University of Georgia. From 1952-1954, he returned to the University of Wisconsin as a researcher.

From the mid- to late-50s, he was an industrial location analyst for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway during which time he also was an adjunct professor at Wayne State University. He then taught at Southern Illinois University for a few years before joining the department of geography at Penn State University in 1963. He remained there for the duration of his career.

Zelinsky’s research and scholarship linked many people and disciplines. His work in the 1960s with Penn State professors of sociology, economics and anthropology created a population research center, which would later become the Graduate Program in Demography. From 1972-1973, he served as the first director of what is now the Population Research Institute. He also served as chair of the geography department and was a fixture at the weekly Coffee Hour promoting interdisciplinary scholarship and collegiality.

Peirce F. Lewis, professor emeritus at Penn State once wrote, “… Wilbur Zelinsky had been an icon to me long before I ever met him—and that was back in the early 1960s. In fact, Wilbur Zelinsky was one of the few icons that I knew about in geography, although I did not think to call him that. To me … Zelinsky’s insight seemed a vision from on high.”

He also played the violin. In 1967, he performed during the State College Music Guild’s first concert featuring Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto No. 5 at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. Although the group has changed it’s name to the Nittany Valley Symphony since that first concert, Zelinsky had continued to play in the violin section right up through the February 16, 2013, concert featuring “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Symphony Executive Director Roberta Strebel remarked, “It’s funny, you know. I never really thought of Wilbur as being a long-time professor of geography. I always thought of him as a violinist.”

Zelinsky’s lifelong explorations connected people both personally and professionally. The field of cultural geography and the greater communities in which he participated will continue to be stimulated by his example.

A memorial service, reception and gathering was held to remember his life.

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New Books for Geographers

New Books: April 2013

April 15, 2013

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.

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

July 2013

A Cultural History of Jewish Dress. Silverman, Eric. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $30.99 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-286-8).
Advertising and Anthropology: Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives. de Waal Malefyt, Timothy and Robert J. Morais. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-85785-202-1).
An Historical Environmental and Cultural Atlas of County Donegal. Mac Laughlin, Jim and Sean Beattie, eds. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press 2013. $£49 cloth (ISBN 978-185918-494-3).
An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America. Witgen, Michael. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press 2013. $26.5 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8122-4365-9).
Anthropological Practice: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method. Okely, Judith. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84520-603-1).
Archaeology and Anthropology: Past, Present and Future. Shankland, David, ed. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $99.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-84788-966-9).
Arid and Semi-Arid Geomorphology. Goudie, Andrew S. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2013. $85.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-107-00554-9).
Atlas of Global Development: A Visual Guide to the World’s Greatest Challenges, 4^th edition. World Bank. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Publishing 2013. $29.95 electronic (ISBN 978-0-8213-9757-2).
Body Style. Winge, Therèsa M. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-023-9).
The Chinese Fashion Industry: An Ethnographic Approach. Zhao, Jianhua. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-935-5).
Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas. Kennedy, Roger G. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-4346-0).
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History. King, Richard J. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-61168-225-0).
The English Breakfast: The Biography of a National Meal with Recipes. O’Connor, Kaori. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-85785-454-4).
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures. Kawamura, Yuniya. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2012. $34.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-947-8).
Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror. Schmidt, Elizabeth. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2013. $27.99 paper (ISBN 978-0-521-70903-3).
Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema. Eltringham, Nigel. New York, NY: Berghahn Books 2013. $70 cloth (ISBN 978-1-78238-073-3).
The Governance of Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics and Ethics. Held. David, Angus Fane-Herbey and Marika Theros. New York, NY: Polity Books 2011. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5202-3).
The Human Mosaic: A Cultural Approach to Human Geography, 12th Edition. Domosh, Mona, Roderick P. Neumann, Patricia L. Price, and Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman 2013. $146.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4292-4018-5).
Hunting, Fishing, and Environmental Virtue: Reconnecting Sportsmanship and Conservation. List, Charles J. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press 2013. $21.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-714-7).
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932. van Allen, Gary. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press 2013. $55 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8165-2118-0).
Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited: Landscape Views Across Time. Lindholm, Robert. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $45 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-3831-2).
Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows. Monmonier, Mark. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press 2012. $ cloth (ISBN 978-0-8156-1004-5).
Land Snails and Slugs of the Pacific Northwest. Burke, Thomas E. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press 2013. $35.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-87071-685-0).
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk: Beyond Fragmented Responses. O’Brien, Geoff and Phil O’Keefe. New York, NY: Routledge 2014. $44.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-415-60094-1).
Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962. Griffin, Dori. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press 2013. $55 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8165-0932-4).
Museums: A Visual Anthropology. Bouquet, Mary. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84520-812-7).
Photgraphy and Exploration. Ryan, James R. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-78023-100-6).
The Political Ecology of Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behavior in Eleven Countries. Sellers, Jeffrey M., Daniel Kübler, Melanie Walter-Rogg and R. Alan Walks, eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2013. $45.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-907301-44-5).
Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism. Lynch, Annette. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $39.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-628-6).
Public Culture: Infrastructures of the Urban. Calhoun, Craig, Richard Sennett, and Harel Shapira, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2013. $ paper (ISBN 978-082236788-8).
The Quest for the Golden Trout: Environmental Loss and America’s Iconic Fish. Thompson, Douglas M. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-61168-319-6).
Shaping the New World: African Slavery in the Americas, 1500–1888. Nellis, Eric. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press 2013. $22.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4426-0555-8).
Sugar Heritae and Tourism in Transition. Jolliffe, Lee. Bristol, England: Channel View Publications 2012. $49.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84541-386-6).
Time and Time Again: History, Rephotography, and Preservation in the Chaco World. Lippard, Lucy R. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-89013-577-8).
Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country. Philpott, William. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-295-99273-0).
Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide. Dear Michael. New York, NY: Oxford University Press 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-19-979798-8).