New Books: August 2016

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 2016

Access, Property and American Urban Space by M. Gordon Brown (Routledge 2016)

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by Dan Flores (University Press of Kansas 2016)

Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, activism, and the quest for common ground by Lisa Kemmerer (ed.) (Routledge 2016)

Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History, Sixth Edition by R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms (eds.) (Rowman & Littlefield 2017)

The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by David Kazanjian (Duke University Press 2016)

Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar by Catherine A. Corson (Yale University Press 2016)

A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools by Nicole Nguyen (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

David Bowie and Philosophy: Rebel, Rebel by Theodore G. Ammon (ed.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2016)

Disasters and Social Resilience: A Bioecological Approach by Helen J. Boon, Alison Cottrell and David King (Routledge 2016)

Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the Field by Greg Halseth, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser and Don Manson (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2016)

Enclave to Urbanity: Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late Eighteenth to the Early

Twentieth Centuries by Johnathan Andrew Farris (Hong Kong University Press 2016)

Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá by Austin Zeiderman (Duke University Press 2016)

The Handbook of Neoliberalism by Simon Springer, Kean Birch and Julie MacLeavy (eds.) (Routledge 2016)

Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (Transaction Publishers 2012 [2016])

An Introduction to Clouds: From the Microscale to Climate by Fabian Mahrt, Felix Lüönd, and Ulrike Lohmann (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Living for Change: An Autobiography by Grace Lee Boggs (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS, Third Edition by John Krygier and Denis Wood (The Guilford Press 2016)

Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 by Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)

The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá by James Delgado, Tomás Mendizábal, Frederick Hanselmann and Dominque Rissolo (University Press of Florida 2016)

The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa by Bernhard Gissibl (Berghahn Press 2016)

Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds by Lisa Messeri (Duke University Press 2016)

Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains by Kevin Z. Sweeney (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Reset Modernity! By Bruno Latour (ed.) (MIT Press 2016)

Shaping Terrain: City Building in Latin America by René Davids (ed.) (University Press of Florida 2016)

Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn? by Simon Marvin, Andres Luque-Ayala and Colin McFarlane (eds.) (Routledge 2016)

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society by Carolyn Merchant (Yale University Press 2016)

State and Politics: Deleuze and Guatarri on Marx by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (MIT Press 2016)

Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn (eds.) (Berghahn 2016 [2014])

Transnational Geographers in the United States: Navigating Autobiogeographies in a Global Age by Alan P. Marcus (ed.) (Lexington Books 2016)

Trotsky in New York 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution by Kenneth D. Ackerman (Counterpoint Press 2016)

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