New Books: February 2015
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, 2015
- Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South by Hurt, R. Douglas (University of North Carolina Press 2015, http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3624)
- The Atlantic World by Coffman, D’Maris, Adrian Leonard, William O’Reilly (eds) (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415467049/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Sbu3_SCS_3RF_1em_5his_63241_AtlanticWorld)
- Cannabis by Duvall, Chris (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo19143826.html)
- Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps by Pegg, Richard. A (University of Hawai’I Press 2014, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9223-9780824847654.aspx)
- Computational Approaches for Urban Environments by Helbich, Marco, Jokar Arsanjani, Jamal, Leitner, Michael (Eds.) (Springer 2015, http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/book/978-3-319-11468-2)
- Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of Caribbean Food by Goucher, Candice (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780765642165/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_tre_2pr_1em_5his_ice15_icr-sol15_64943_mesharpedec14)
- Convergence of Food Security, Energy Security and Sustainable Agriculture by Songstad, David D., Hatfield, Jerry L., Tomes, Dwight T. (Eds.) (Springer 2014, http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/agriculture/book/978-3-642-55261-8)
- Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives by Bodenhamer, David J., John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris (Indiana University Press 2014, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_6125&products_id=807453)
- Disasters in Field Research: Preparing for and Coping with Unexpected Events by Ice, Gillian H., Darna L. Dufour and Nancy J. Stevens (Rowman and Littlefield 2015, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759118010)
- Environmental Justice and Activism in Indianapolis by Fuller, Trevor K. (Rowman and Littlefield 2015, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739188392)
- Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations by Cassidy, Tanya and Abdullahi El Tom (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethnographies-of-breastfeeding-9781472569257/)
- Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday by Hine, Christine (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethnography-for-the-internet-9780857855701/#sthash.JBmE0c6W.dpuf)
- The Fin-de-Siècle World by Saler, Michael (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415674133/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SBU3_SCS_3RF_1em_5his_62982_FindeSiecle)
- The Geopoetics of Modernism by Walsh, Rebecca (University of Florida 2014, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=WALSH003)
- The Geopolitics of Regional Power: Geography, Economics and Politics in Southern Africa by Scholvin, Sören (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472430731)
- Health, Science, and Place by Blatt, Amy J. (Springer 2015, http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-3-319-12002-7)
- Historical Atlas of Maine by Hornsby, Stephen J. and Richard W. Judd (eds); Michael J. Hermann (Cartographic Designer) (University of Maine Press 2015, http://umaine.edu/umpress/recently-published/historical-atlas-of-maine/)
- La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence by Díaz Balsera, Viviana, and Rachel A. May (eds) (University of Florida Press 2014, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=MORMI003)
- Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization by Sassen, Saskia (Columbia University Press 2014, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-10608-5/losing-control)
- Mapping and Modeling Weather and Climate with GIS by Armstrong, Lori (ESRI Press 2014, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=271&moduleID=0)
- Mapping the Nation: Building a More Resilient Future by An Esri Publication (ESRI Press 2015, http://www.esri.com/esri-news/releases/15-1qtr/esri-map-book-illustrates-how-the-us-government-uses-gis)
- Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana by Milne, George E. (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/natchez_country/)
- Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America by Goodale, Mark and Nancy Postero (Stanford University Press 2015, http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=17903)
- On the State by Bourdieu, Pierre (Polity Books 2014, http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745663296)
- A Short Guide to Climate Change Risk by Arnell, Nigel (Gower Publishing 2015, http://www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409453529)
- ¡Tequila!: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico by Gaytán, Marie Sarita (Stanford University Press 2015, http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=23483)
- World Heritage Sites and Indigenous People’s Rights: IWGIA Document No. 129 by Disko, Stefan, and Helen Tugendhat (eds) (Transaction 2015, http://www.transactionpub.com/title/World-Heritage%20Sites%20and%20Indigenous%20Peoples%E2%80%99%20Rights-978-87-92786-54-8.html?srchprod=1)