New Books: February 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.
February, 2016
- Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area by Jerry K. Jacka (Duke University Press 2015
- Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations by John Pickles, Adrian Smith with Robert Begg, Milan Bucek, Poli Roukova, Rudolf Pástor (Wiley-Blackwell 2016
- Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest by Jason Weems (University of Minnesota Press 2015)
- Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World 1600-1800by Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo Ruiz, Geoffrey Symcox (eds.) (University of Toronto Press 2016)
- The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala’s Cloud Forest by Paul Kockelman (Duke University Press 2016)
- Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change by Sunjay Chaturvedi, Timothy Doyle (Palgrave Macmillian 2015)
- Following Burke and Wills Across Australia: A Touring Guide by Dave Phoenix (CSIRO 2015)
- The Food and Folklore Reader by Lucy Long (ed.) (Bloomsbury 2015)
- The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic by Christopher C. Apap (University of New Hampshire Press 2016)
- Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945, 7th Edition by Ron Johnston, James Sidaway (Routledge 2016)
- Great City Parks 2nd Edition by Alan Tate (Routledge 2015)
- The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Lawby Brett Christophers (Harvard Press 2016)
- Indian River Lagoon: An Environmental History by Nathaniel Osborn (University Press of Florida 2016)
- International Migrants in Japan: Contributions in an Era of Population Decline byYoshitaka Ishikawa (ed.) (Kyoto University Press 2015)
- Isles of Amnesia: The History, Geography, and Restoration of America’s Forgotten Pacific Islands by Mark. J. Rauzon (University of Hawai’i Press 2016)
- Landscapes Lost and Found: Appreciating Hong Kong’s Heritage Cultural Landscapes by Ken Nicholson (Hong Kong University Press 2016)
- Louisiana and the Gulf South Frontier, 1500-1821 by F. Todd Smith (LSU Press 2014)
- Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa by Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda and Caroline Skinner (eds.) (African Books Collective 2015)
- Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos (eds.) (University of Calgary Press 2015)
- Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City by Daniel M. Goldstein (Duke University Press 2016)
- Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865–1898 by Edward J. Blum (LSU Press 2015)
- Reinventing Dixie: Tin Pan Alley’s Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South by John Bush Jones (LSU Press 2015)
- Rematerialising Children’s Agency: Everyday practices in a post-socialist estate by Matej Blazek (Policy Press 2015)
- Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover (Verso Books 2016)
- Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula by Benjamin Reilly (Ohio University Press 2015)
- The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited by David Lowenthal (Cambridge University Press 2015)
- Tourism and Sustainability: Development, Globalisation and New Tourism in the Third World by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt (Routledge 2016)
- Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown (Zone Books 2015)
- Violent Neoliberalism: Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodiaby Simon Springer (Palgrave Macmillan 2015)
