New Books: January 2014

New geography books

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.

January, 2014

• The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills. Forgotten Narratives by Clark, Ian D. and Fred Cahir (CSIRO 2013, http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6993.htm)
• The Accidental Playground: Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned by Campo, Daniel (Fordham University Press 2013, http://fordhampress.com/index.php/the-accidenta-payground-paperback.html)
• Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State by  Carlson, Amanda B., and Orbin Poynor (University Press of Florida 2013, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=CARLS001)
• The Age of Migration, 5th Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Atkins, Will (Guilford Press 2014, http://www.guilford.com/cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/castles.htm&dir=geo/pop)
• The American South and the Atlantic World by Ward, Brian, Martyn Bone, and William A. Link, eds (University Press of Florida 2013, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=WARDX002)
• American Urban Form: A Representative History by Warner, Sam Bass, and Andrew H. Whittemore (MIT Press 2013, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/american-urban-form)
• Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire by Ruiz, Jason (University of Texas Press 2014, http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/ruiame)
• An Anthropology of Architecture by Victor Buchli (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/an-anthropology-of-architecture-9780857853011/)
• Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, 2nd Edition by Moore, Henrietta L. and Todd Sanders (Wiley-Blackwell , http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470673354.html)
• Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics by Allewaert, Monique (University of Minnesota Press 2013, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/arielas-ecology)
• Asian Cities in an Era of Decentralisation by Miller, Michelle Ann andTim Bunnell (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415705486/)
• Beyond Alternative Food Networks: Italy’s Solidarity Purchase Groups by Grasseni, Cristina (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/beyond-alternative-food-networks-9780857852281/)
• Bolivia: Processes of Change by Crabtree, John and Ann Chaplin (Zed Books 2013, http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/node/11877)
• Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France by Rushforth, Brett (University of North Carolina Press 2014, http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=2843)
• Brazilian Food: Race, Class and Identity in Regional Cuisines by Fajans, Jane (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/brazilian-food-9780857850430/)
• Burke and Wills: The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition by Joyce E. B. and D. A. McCann (CSIRO 2011, http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6733.htm)
• China and the Environment: The Green Revolution by Geall, Sam, ed (Zed Books 2013, http://zedbooks.co.uk/node/11898)
• Climate Change and Sustainable Cities by  Priemus, Hugo and Simin Davoudi (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415826969/)
• The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire by White, Sam (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/climate-rebellion-early-modern-ottoman-empire)
• Colombia’s Forgotten Frontier: A Literary Geography of the Putumayo by Wylie, Lesley (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo16885500.html)
• Covert Capital: Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburgbs of Northern Virginia by Friedman, Andrew (University of California Press 2013, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520274655)
• The Creative Class Goes Global by Mellander, Charlotta and Richard Florida, Bjørn T. Asheim, Meric Gertler, eds (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415633611/)
• Dangerous Neighbors: Volcanoes and Cities by Heiken, Grant (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/mineralogy-petrology-and-volcanology/dangerous-neighbors-volcanoes-and-cities)
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigeneous Peoples by Smith, Linda Tuhiwai (Zed Books 2012, http://zedbooks.co.uk/node/12113)
• Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History by Cox, Karen L. (University Press of Florida 2012, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=COXXX004)
• Empire and Science in the Making: Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760–1830 by Peter Boomgaard, ed (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, http://us.macmillan.com/empireandscienceinthemaking/PeterBoomgaard)
• Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China by Hathaway, Michael J (University of California Press 2013, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520276208)
• The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change by Conkling, Philip, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker, and George Denton (MIT Press 2013, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fate-greenland)
• Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera by Hennessy, Rosemary (University of Minnesota Press 2013, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/fires-on-the-border)
• Food and Identity in the Caribbean by Garth, Hannah, ed (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-and-identity-in-the-caribbean-9780857853585/)
• Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture by de Solier, Isabelle (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-and-the-self-9780857854353/)
• Geographies of Health, Disease and Well-being: Recent Advances in Theory and Method by Kwan, Mei-Po (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415870016/)
• Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Parker, Geoffrey (Yale University Press 2013, http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300153231)
•  Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control by Giles-Vernick, Tamara and James L. A. Webb Jr., eds (Ohio University Press 2013, http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Global+Health+in+Africa)
• Global Interdependence: The World After 1945 by Iriye, Akira, ed (Belknap Press 2014, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674045729)
• The Globalization of Advertising: Agencies, Cities and Spaces of Creativity by Faulconbridge, James R. and Peter Taylor, Corinne Nativel, Jonathan Beaverstock (Routledge 2011, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415567169/)
• Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism by Hall, Peter (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415840224/)
• The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910–1911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease by Summers, William C (Yale University Press 2012, http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300183191)
• Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism by Agnani, Sunil M (Fordham University Press 2013, http://fordhampress.com/index.php/hating-empire-propery-cloth.html)
• Here and There: Reading Pennsylvania’s Working Landscapes by Conlogue, Bill (Pennsylvania State University Press 2013, http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06080-4.html)
• A History of Anthropological Theory, 4th Edition by Erikson, Paul A., and Liam D. Murphy (University of Toronto Press 2013, http://www.utppublishing.com/Readings-for-a-History-of-Anthropological-Theory-Fourth-Edition.html)
• A History of Modern Israel, 2nd edition by Shindler, Colin (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/history-modern-israel)
• A History of the Vietnamese by Taylor, K. W. (Cambridge University Press 2013, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/south-east-asian-history/history-vietnamese)
• The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development by Polyné, Millery (University of Minnesota Press 2013, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-idea-of-haiti)
• Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination by Stoler, Ann Laura (Duke University Press 2013, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Imperial-Debris/)
• In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region by Garfield, Seth (Duke University Press 2013, https://www.dukeupress.edu/In-Search-of-the-Amazon/)
• Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York’s Rivers, 1900–1940 by Jensen, Kirsten and Bartholomew F. Bland (Fordham University Press 2013, http://fordhampress.com/index.php/industria-subime-paperback.html)
• Infrastructure Planning and Finance: A Smart and Sustainable Guide by Elmer, Vicki and Adam Leigland (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415693189/)
• The Interview An Ethnographic Approach by Jonathan Skinner (Bloomsbury 2012, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-interview-9781847889409/)
• Introducing Human Geographies, Third Edition by Cloke, Paul, Philip Crang, and Mark Goodwin (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781444135350/)
• It’s All a Kind of Magic: the Young Ken Kesey by Dodgson, Rick (University of Wisconsin Press 2013, http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5162.htm)
• Jefferson’s Shadow: The Story of His Science by Thomson, Keith (Yale University Press 2012, http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300184037)
• Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War by Keehn, David C (Louisiana State University Press 2013, http://lsupress.org/books/detail/knights-of-the-golden-circle/)
• The Land Between the Lakes: A Geogaphy of the Forgotten Future by Foresta, Ronald A (University of Tennessee Press 2013, http://utpress.org/bookdetail-2/?jobno=T01597)
• Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and garifuna Resistance in Honduras by Brondo, Keri Vacanti (University of Arizona Press 2013, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2417.htm)
• A Landscape History of New England by Harrison, Blake, and Richard W. Judd, eds (MIT Press 2013, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/landscape-history-new-england)
• Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The Later Highland Land Wars by Robertson, Iain J.M (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472411372)
• The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South by Edge, John T., Elizabeth Engelhardt, and Ted Ownby, eds (University of Georgia Press 2013, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/larder/)
• Latin America’s Turbulent Transition: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism by Burbach, Roger  Michael Fox and Federico Fuentes (Zed Books 2013, http://zedbooks.co.uk/node/12002)
• A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817–1858 by Bell, Stephen (Stanford University Press 2010, http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=7968)
• Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences by Protevi, John (University of Minnesota Press 2013, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/life-war-earth)
• Making Human Geography by Cox, Kevin R (Guilford Press 2013, http://tmm.guilfordpub.com/cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/cox3.htm&dir=geo/methods)
• Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World by McLeish, Todd (University of Washington Press 2013, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/MCLNAR.html)
• Networked: The New Social Operating System by Rainie, Lee, & Barry Wellman  (MIT Press 2012, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/networked)
• New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America by Calloway, Colin G (Johns Hopkins University Press 2013, http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9781421411217&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y)
• The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Ginzburg, Carlo (Johns Hopkins University Press 2013, http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9781421409931&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y)
• North Pacific Temperate Rainforests: Ecology and Conservation by Orians, Gordon, and John Schoen, eds (University of Washington Press 2013, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ORINOR.html)
• Opening a Window to the West: The Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899 by Ennals, Peter (University of Toronto Press  2013, http://www.utppublishing.com/Opening-a-Window-to-the-West-The-Foreign-Concession-at-Kobe-Japan-1868-1899.html)
• Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs by Pearce, Joshua M (Elsevier 2013, http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780124104624&utm_source=publicity&utm_medium=cluster+email&utm_campaign=open-source+hardware)
• Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City by Browne, Kath (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472412942)
• Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture by Cohen, Mark Nathan, and George J. Armelagos, eds (University Press of Florida 2013, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=COHEN006)
• People and Planning: Report of the Committee on Public Participation in Planning (The Skeffington Committee Report) by Skeffington Committee and Intro by Peter Shapely (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415827874/)
• Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space by Glass, Michael R. and Reuben Rose-Redwood (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415634250/)
• Planning Sustainable Transport by Hutton, Barry (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849713917/)
• Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon by Ott, Cindy (University of Washington Press 2012, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/OTTPUM.html)
• Readings for A History of Anthropological Theory, 4th Edition by Erikson, Paul A., and Liam D. Murphy (University of Toronto Press 2013, http://www.utppublishing.com/A-History-of-Anthropological-Theory-Fourth-Edition.html)
• Reforming Federal Land Management: Cutting the Gordian Knot by Fitzsimmons, Allan (Rowman and Littlefield 2012, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442215955)
• The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities by Adey, Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman, Mimi Sheller (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415667715/)
• Saving More than Seeds: Practices and Politics of Seed Saving by Phillips, Catherine (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409446514)
• The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549–1689 by Batchelor, Robert K (University of Chicago Press 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo16723349.html)
• Signifying Europe by Fornäs, Johan (Intellect Books 2013, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo12322108.html)
• Smart Cities: Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition by Deakin, Mark (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415658195/)
• Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916 by May, Matthew S. (The University of Alabama Press 2013, http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Soapbox-Rebellion,5719.aspx)
• Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures by Urry, John (Zed Books 2013, http://zedbooks.co.uk/node/12019)
• Spatial Questions: Cultural Topologies and Social Spatialisation by Shields, Rob (SAGE 2013, http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book233758?productType=Books&subject=A00&sortBy=defaultPubDate desc&fs=1)
• Speaking for the Enslaved: Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites by Jackson, Antoinette T. (Left Coast Press 2012, http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=386)
• State-led Privatisation and the Demise of the Democratic State: Welfare Reform and Localism in an Era of Regulatory Capitalism by Raco, Mike (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472400895)
• Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History by Goldfield, David (Louisiana State University Press 2013, http://lsupress.org/books/detail/still-fighting-the-civil-war-updated/)
• The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico by Garcia-Robles, Jorge (University of Minnesota Press 2013, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-stray-bullet?searchterm=The+Stray+Bullet%3A+William+S.+Burroughs+in+Mexico)
• Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse by Schneider, Nathan (University of California Press 2013, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520276802)
• Toronto: Transformations in a City and Its Regions by Relph, Edward (University of Pennsylvania Press 2013, http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15143.html)
• Touching Space, Placing Touch by Paterson, Mark and Martine Dodge, eds (Ashgate 2012, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409402145)
• Transforming the United Nations System: Designs for a Workable World by Schwartzberg, Joseph E (United Nations University Press 2013, http://unu.edu/publications/books/transforming-the-united-nations-system-designs-for-a-workable-world.html – overview)
• Transforming Urban Economies: Policy Lessons from European and Asian Cities by Colantonio, Andrea and Richard Burdett, Philipp Rode (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415830577/)
• Transport Models in Urban Planning Practices: Tensions and Opportunities in a Changing Planning Context by te Brömmelstroet, Marco and Luca Bertolini, eds (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9780415826150/)
• Trees in Paradise: A California History by Farmer, Jared (W. W. Norton Company, Inc 2013, http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Trees-in-Paradise/)
• Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas by Solnit, Rebecca, and Rebecca Snedeker (University of California Press 2013, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520274044)
• Urban Interstices: The Aesthetics and the Politics of the In-between by Brighenti, Andrea Mubi, eds (Ashgate 2013, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472410016)
• Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012 by Matilsky, Barbara (University of Washington Press 2013, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/MATVAN.html)
• Water and Food Security in the Arabian Gulf by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research 2013, http://www.ecssr.com/ECSSR/appmanager/portal/ecssr?_nfpb=true&_nfls=false&_pageLabel=PublicationsPage&lang=en&_event=viewDetails&publicationId=%2FPublications%2FBooks%2FEnglish%2FPublications_1228.xml)
• Web Cartography: Map Design for Interactive and Mobile Devices by Muehlenhaus, Ian (CRC Press 2013, http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439876220)
• When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America by Nye, David E (MIT Press 2013, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/when-lights-went-out)
• When We Build Again by Bournville Village Trust (Routledge 2013, www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415815673/)
• The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores by Carr, Archie (University Press of Florida 2013, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=PAPES002)