New Books: February 2014
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.
February 2014
- A Story of Six Rivers: History, Culture and Ecology by Coates, Peter (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo15584391.html)
- African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.: Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation’s Capital by Prince, Sabiyha (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409446125)
- Alcohol in World History by Hames, Gina (Routledge 2012, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415311526/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SBU4_SJC_1TX_1em_1HIS_46193)
- American Capitals: A Historical Geography by Montes, Christian (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo16720894.html)
- The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity by Hausmann, Ricardo, and Cesar A. Hidalgo, et al (MIT Press 2013, http://atlas.media.mit.edu/atlas/)
- Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World by Paglen, Trevor (Penguin Group 2010, http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780451229168,00.html)”
- Bodies Without Borders by de Casanova, Erynn Masi and Afshan Jafar (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=698662)
- Climate and Human Migration: Past Experiences, Future Challenges by xii and 318 pp (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/climate-and-human-migration-past-experiences-future-challenges)
- Climate Governance in the Developing World by Held, David, Eva-Maria Nag, and Charles Roger (Polity Books 2013, http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745662763)
- Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State by Hawkins, John P., and James H. McDonald (University of Oklahoma Press 2013, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1735/crisis of governance in maya guatemala)
- Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice by Gunn, Wendy and Ton Otto, Rachel Charlotte Smith (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/design-anthropology-9780857853691/)
- Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900–1930 by Ingram, Tammy (University of North Carolina Press 2014, http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3495)
- Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography by Warf, Barney (Springer 2012, http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/book/978-94-007-2974-2)
- Energy Technology Innovation: Learning from Historical Successes and Failures by Grübler Arnulf and Charlie Wilson (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/energy-technology-innovation-learning-historical-successes-and-failures?format=HB)
- Essentials of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology by Frost, B. Ronald and Carol D. Frost (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/mineralogy-petrology-and-volcanology/essentials-igneous-and-metamorphic-petrology?format=PB)
- Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town by Rowley, Rex J. (University of Nevada Press 2013, http://www.unpress.nevada.edu/Search/Title/everyday/Titles/Everyday Las Vegas;2258?1)
- Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture by De Slier, Isabelle (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-and-the-self-9780857854353/)
- Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses by Pfeifer, K (Springer 2013)
- The Franz Boas Enigma: Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences by Müller-Wille, Ludger (Baraka Books 2014, http://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/the-franz-boas-enigma/)
- From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation by Eco, Umberto (Harvard University Press 2013, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674049185)
- Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction by Cresswell, Tim (Wiley-Blackwell 2013, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002630.html)
- Global Beauty, Local Bodies by Jafar, Afshan and Erynn Masi de Casanova (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=698659)
- Global Energy Dilemmas by Bradshaw, Michael (Polity Books 2013, http://www.politybooks.com/book.asp?ref=9780745650647)
- The Global Pigeon by Jerolmack, Colin (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo14543687.html)
- Governing the Climate: New Approaches to Rationality, Power and Politics by Stripple, Johannes and Harriet Bulkeley (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/governing-climate-new-approaches-rationality-power-and-politics?format=HB)
- History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections by Lunen, A. v., and C. Travis (Springer 2013, http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-94-007-5008-1)
- The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations by McPherson, Alan (Oxford University Press 2014, http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-invaded-9780195343038;jsessionid=AE1E702F8C99F20B463BCC2D2F72C8D1?cc=us&lang=en&)
- Island Life: Or, the Phenomena and Casuses of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates by Wallace, Alfred Russel (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo15584113.html)
- Making Human Geography by Cox, Kevin R. (Guilford Press 2014, http://tmm.guilfordpub.com/cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/cox3.htm)
- Mammals of Ungava and Labrador: The 1882-1884 Fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu Knowledge by Heyes, Scott A. and Kristofer M. Helgen (Smithsonian Institution Press 2014, http://www.randomhouse.com/book/228353/mammals-of-ungava-and-labrador-)
- Mapping the Nation: Supporting Decisions that Govern a People by An Esri Publication (ESRI Press 2014, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=246&moduleID=0)
- Material Culture and Authenticity: Fake Branded Fashion in Europe by Craciun, Magdalena (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-culture-and-authenticity-9780857854513/)
- Mid-Ocean Ridges by Searle, Roger (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/structural-geology-tectonics-and-geodynamics/mid-ocean-ridges)
- The Nomad’s Path: Travels in the Sahel by Carr, Alistair (I.B. Tauris 2013, http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Lifestyle sport leisure/Travel holiday/Travel writing/Classic travel writing/The Nomads Path Travels in the Sahel.aspx)
- Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources by Vásquez, Patricia I. (University of Georgia Press 2013, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/oil_sparks_in_the_amazon/)
- Power to the People: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964–1974 by Kaplan, Geoff (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo6177974.html)
- Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations, 3rd Edition by Feagin, Joe R (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415704014/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3+dec13+fg+racist+america+ecampaign)
- Reclaiming American Cities:The Struggle for People, Place, and Nature since 1900 by Platt, Rutherfor H (University of Massachusetts Press 2013, http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/reclaiming-american-cities)
- The Road Through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity by Bowen, William M. (W.E. UPJohn Institute 2014, http://www.upjohn.org/Publications/Titles/RoadThroughtheRustBelt)
- Space and Society in Central Brazil: A Panará Ethnography by Ewart, Elizabeth (New York, NY 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/space-and-society-in-central-brazil-9780857855800/)
- Spice: The History of a Temptation by Turner, Jack (Vintage 2004, http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/181103/spice/)
- Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution by Fine, Doug (Penguin Books 2012, http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781592407095,00.html)
- Tourism and the Power of Otherness Seductions of Difference by Picard, David and Di Giovine, Michael A. (Channel View Publications 2014, http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?sort=sort_date/d&sf1=title_exact&st1=tourismandthepowerofotherness)
- Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World-from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief by Zoellner, Tom (Penguin Group 2014, http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670025282,00.html?Train_Tom_Zoellner)