New Books: December 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 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 2016

America Observed: On an International Anthropology of the United States by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib (eds.) (Berghahn Books 2016)

Before Brasilia: Frontier Life in Central Brazil by Mary C. Karasch (University of New Mexico Press 2016 [2009])

Calculating Property Relations: Chicago’s Wartime Industrial Mobilization by Robert Lewis (University of Georgia Press 2016)

From Economic Zone to Eco-City? Urban Governance and Urban Development Trends in Tianjin’s Coastal Area by Iris Belle (Borntraeger Science Publishers 2015)

Maintenance Architecture by Hilary Sample (MIT Press 2016)

Marxist Thought and the City by Henri Lefebvre (author) and Robert Bononno (translator) (University of Minnesota Press 2016 [1972])

Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media by Susan P. Mains, Julie Cupples, and Chris Lukinbeal (eds.) (Springer 2015)

Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers by Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall (eds.) (Indiana University Press 2016)

Spy Sites of Washington, DC: A Guide to the Capital Region’s Secret History by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton (Georgetown University Press 2017)

Sustaining Russia’s Arctic Cities: Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change by Robert W. Orttung (Berghahn Books 2017)

Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities by Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall, and Stephanie LeMenager (eds.) (Routledge 2017)

Urban Centres in Asia and Latin America by Simone Sandholz (Springer 2017)