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 BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

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

December, 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.
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