New Books: December 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.
December, 2013
- A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Collaboration in Indigenous Research by Johnson, Jay T., and Soren C. Larsen, eds (Oregon State University Press 2013,http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/deeper-sense-of-place)
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An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia: The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia by Chouvy, Pierre-Arnaud (I.B. Tauris 2013,http://www.ibtauris.com/Home/Books/Society%20%20social%20sciences/Social%20services%20%20welfare%20criminology/Crime%20%20criminology/Drugs%20trade%20%20drug%20trafficking/An%20Atlas%20of%20Trafficking%20in%20Southeast%20Asia%20The%20Illegal%20Trade%20in%20Arms%20Drugs%20People%20Counterfeit%20Goods%20and%20Resources.aspx)
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Ancient Alterity in the Andes: A Recognition of Others by Lau, George F (Routledge 2012,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415519229/)
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The Ashgate Companion to Planning and Culture by Young, Greg and Deborah Stevenson (Ashgate 2013,http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409422242)
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Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition by Kun, Josh and Laura Pulido, eds (University of California Press 2014, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275607)
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Books and Travel Inspiration, Quests and Transformation by Laing, Jennifer and Warwick Frost (Channel View Publications 2012, http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?sort=sort_date/d&sf1=title_exact&st1=booksandtravel)
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The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California by Cheng, Wendy (University of Minnesota Press 2013, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-changs-next-door-to-the-diazes)
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Climate Change in Bangladesh: Confronting Impending Disasters by Rashid, Harun and Bimal Paul (Lexington Books 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739183533)
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Corn Meets Maize: Food Movements and Markets in Mexico by Baker, Lauren E. (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442206519)
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Desert: Nature and Culture by Haynes, Roslynn D (University of Chicago Press 2013,http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo16821909.html)
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Easter Island’s Silent Sentinels: The Sculpture and Architecture of Rapa Nui by Treister, Kenneth, Patricia Vargas Casanova, and Claudio Cristino (University of New Mexico Press 2013,http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=13216394452412&Page=book)
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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America by Hannickel, Erica (University of Pennsylvania Press 2013,http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15162.html)
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Experimental Politics and the Making of Worlds by Kanngieser, Anja (Ashgate 2013,http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409440642)
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Flood: Nature and Culture by Withington, John (University of Chicago Press 2013,http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo16826611.html)
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Florida Sinkholes: Science and Policy by Brinkman, Robert (University Press of Florida 2013,http://upf.com/book.asp?id=BRINKF06)
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Globalization and It’s Critics: Perspectives from Political Economy by Germain Randall, ed (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, http://us.macmillan.com/globalizationanditscritics-1/RandallGermain)
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Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology by Green, Lesley and David R. Green (The University of Arizona Press 2013,http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2442.htm)
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Landscape and Society in Contemporary Ireland by McGrath, Brendan (Cork University Press 2013,http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/product-p/9781909005716.htm)
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Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl by Cadieux, Kirsten Valentine and Laura Taylor, ed (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415747615/)
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Listening to Sea Lions: Currents of Change from Galapagos to Patagonia by Meltzof, Sarah Keene (Rowman and Littlefield 2012, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759122376)
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Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World by Vidal, Cécile (University of Pennsylvania Press 2013,http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15171.html)
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Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen’s African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery by Lambert, David (University of Chicago Press 2013,http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16636711.html)
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Mennonite Disaster Service: Building a Therapeutic Community after the Gulf Coast Storms by Phillips, Brenda (Lexington Books 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739185469)
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Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy by DeVereaux, Constance and Martin Griffin (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409425465)
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New Mobilities Regimes in Art and Social Sciences by Witzgall, Susanne, Gerlinde Vogl, and Sven Kesselring (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409450924)
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New Orleans: A Food Biography by Williams, Elizabeth M. (Altamira Press 2013,https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759121386)
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Pathways from Preferential Trade: The Politics of Trade Adjustment in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific by Heron, Tony (Palgrave Macmillan 2013,http://us.macmillan.com/pathwaysfrompreferentialtrade/TonyHeron)
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Reading Kant’s Geography by Elden, Stuart and Eduardo Mendieta, eds (SUNY Press 2011,http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5153-reading-kants-geography.aspx)
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Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life by Feeser, Andrea (University of Georgia Press 2013,http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/red_white_and_black_make_blue/)
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The Routledge History of Slavery by Heuman, Gad and Trevor Burnard (Routledge 2012,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415520836/)
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The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da cunha by Hecht, Susanna B (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo8352731.html)
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Secrets of the Irish Landscape by Jebb, Matthew (Cork University Press 2013,http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/product-p/9781782050100.htm)
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Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope: Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity by Nazarea, Virginia D., Robert E. Rhoades, and Jenna E. Andrews-Swann (University of Arizona Press 2013,http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2449.htm)
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The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition by Hofer, Matthew, ed (University of New Mexico Press 2013, http://unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000005562&Page=book)
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Something’s in the Air: Race, Crime, and the Legalization of Marijuana by Tate, Katherine, James Lance Taylor, and Mark Q. Sawyer, eds (Routledge 2013,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415842402/)
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Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect by Johnstone, Barbara (Oxford University Press 2013,http://global.oup.com/academic/product/speaking-pittsburghese-9780199945702;jsessionid=5A4628A3BB45E179B56D8695967199B0?cc=us&lang=en&)
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Sugar Heritage and Tourism in Transition by Jolliffe, Lee (Channel View Publications 2012,http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?sort=sort_date/d&sf1=title_exact&st1=sugarheritageandtourismintransition)
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Understanding European Movements: New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protestby Fominaya, Cristina Flesher and Laurence Cox (Routledge 2013,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415638791/)
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Water Resource Management in a Vulnerable World: The Hydro-Hazardscapes of Climate Change by Mustafa, Daanish (I.B. Tauris 2013,http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Earth%20sciences%20geography%20environment%20planning/The%20environment/Management%20of%20land%20%20natural%20resources/Drought%20%20water%20supply/Water%20Resource%20Management%20in%20a%20Vulnerable%20World%20Hydrohazardscapes%20and%20the%20Geographics%20of%20Water.aspx)
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Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas by Dorsey, Kurkpatrick (University of Washington Press 2013, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/DORWHA.html)