New Books: December 2012
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, 2012
- Albala, Ken, ed. A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance. New York: Berg, 2012. 242 and 9 pp., $550.00, ISBN 978-0-85785-025-6 (volume 3).
- Anderson, Dort Jagetic et al., ed. The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders Between Public Policy and Everyday Life In a Re-scaling Europe. Burlington: Ashgate, 2012. 261 and 12 pp., $99.95, ISBN 978-1-4094-3708-6.
- Armitage, Geoff and Baynton-Williams, Ashley. The World at Their Fingertips: Eighteenth-Century British Two-Sheet Double-Hemisphere World Maps. London: The British Library, 2012. 262 pp., $65.00, ISBN 978-0-7123-5877-4.
- Bentley, Amy, ed. A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age. New York: Berg, 2012. 272 and 9 pp., $550.00, ISBN 978-0-85785-028-7 (volume 6).
- Black, Brian C. and Chiarappa, Michael J. Nature’s Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. 367 and 6 pp., $38.00, ISBN 978-0-8229-4417-1.
- Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic In the Age of Sail. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. 378 and 14 pp., $29.95 , ISBN 978-0-674-04765-5.
- Bruegel, Martin, ed. A Cultural History of Food in the Age of Empire. New York: Berg, 2012. 282 and 9 pp., $550.00, ISBN 978-0-85785-027-0 (volume 5).
- DiPippo, Ronald. Geothermal Power Plants: Principles, Applications, Case Studies and Environmental Impact. New York: Elsevier, 2012. 600 and 24 pp., $129.95, ISBN 978-0-08-098206-9.
- Dorling, Daniel. The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure. Chichester: Wiley, 2012. 331 and 49 pp., $45.00, ISBN 978-1-96293-9.
- Eckstein, Zvi et al. Immigration and Labor Market Mobilty in Israel, 1990-2009. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012. 306 and 14 pp., $40.00, ISBN 978-0-262-01767-1.
- Erdkamp, Paul, ed. A Cultural History of Food In Antiquity. New York: Berg, 2012. 251 and 9 pp., $550.00 , ISBN 978-0857-85023-2 (volume 1).
- Featherstone, David. Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism. New York: Zed Books, 2012. 304 and 13 pp., $26.95, ISBN 978-1-84813-595-6.
- Feldman, David Lewis. Water. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. 196 and 7 pp., $49.95, ISBN 978-0-7456-5033-3.
- Fischer, Victor with Wohlforth, Charles. To Russia With Love: An Alaskan’s Journey. Fairbanks: The University of Alaska Press, 2012. 405 and 15 pp., $27.95, ISBN 978-1-60223-139-9.
- Glassman, Jim. Bounding the Mekong: The Asain Development Bank, China, and Thailand. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2010. 207 and 15 pp., $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3444-9.
- Howey, Meghan C.L. Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200-1600. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. 220 and 12 pp., $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8061-4288-3.
- Kerrigan, William. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 231 and 12 pp., $50.00, ISBN 978-1-4214-0729-6.
- Kumin, Beat, ed. A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age. New York: Berg, 2012. 273 and 9 pp., $550.00, ISBN 978-0-85785-026-3 (volume 4).
- Laundre, John W. Phantoms of the Prairie: The Return of Cougars to the Midwest. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 196 pp., $24.95, ISBN 978-029928754-2.
- Liang, Shunlin et al. Advanced Remote Sensing: Terrestrial Information Extraction and Applications. New York: Elsevier, 2012. 799 and 20 pp., $149.95, ISBN 978-0-12-385954-9.
- McCoy, Alfred W. et al., ed. Endless Empire: Spain’s Retreat, Europe’s Eclipse, American’s Decline. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 477 and 13 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-029929024-5.
- Mintz, Sidney W. Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. 257 and 12 pp., $16.95, ISBN 978-0-674-06621-2.
- Montanari, Massimo, ed. A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age. New York: Berg, 2012. 242 and 9 pp., $550.00, ISBN 978-0-85785-024-9 (volume 2).
- Morales, Emilio and Scarpaci, Joseph L. Marketing without Advertising: Brand Preference and Consumer Choice in Cuba. New York: Routledge, 2012. 229 and 20 pp., $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-89698-6.
- Rosenberg, Emily S. ed., A World Connecting. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. 1161 pp., $39.95, ISBN 978-0-674-04721-1.
- Skop, Emily. The Immigration and Settlement of Asain Indians in Phoenix, Arizona 1965-2011: Ethnic Pride vs. Racial Discrimination in the Suburbs. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012. 315 and 14 pp., $49.95, ISBN 978-0-773-42632-0.
- Stroud, Ellen. Nature Next Door: Cities and Trees in the American Northeast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. 207 and 20 pp., $26.95, ISBN 978-0-295-99208-2.
- Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 312 and 16 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-06705-9.
- Tovell, Freeman M. et al., ed. Voyage to the Northwest Coast on America, 1792: Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2012. 196 pp., $ 34.95, ISBN 978-0-87062-408-7.
- Treu, Martin. Signs, Streets, and Storefronts: A History of Architecture and Graphics Along America’s Commercial Corridors. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 384 and 12 pp., $49.95, ISBN 978-1-4214-0494-3.
- Woodard, Colin. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. New York: Penguin Books, 2011. 371 and 8 pp., $16.00, ISBN 978-0-14-312202-9.
- Wu, Weiping and Gaubatz, Piper. The Chinese City. New York: Routledge, 2013. 298 and 13 pp., $45.00, ISBN 978-0-415-57575-1.
- Yergin, Daniel. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. New York: Penguin Books, 2012. 820 and 12 pp., $20.00, ISBN 978-0-14-312194-7.