New Books: July 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.

 July 2015

• Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada’s Second World War by Matthew Evenden (University of Toronto Press 2015, http://www.utppublishing.com/Allied-Power-Mobilizing-Hydro-electricity-during-Canada-s-Second-World-War.html)
• The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking modernity in a new epoch by Clive Hamilton, François Gemenne and Christophe Bonneuil (eds.) (Routledge 2015, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781138821248/)
• Articulating Rapa Nui: Polynesian Cultural Politics in a Latin American Nation-State by Riet Delsing (University of Hawai’i Press 2015, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9345-9780824851682.aspx)
• The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina by Christopher Morris (Oxford University Press 2012, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-big-muddy-9780195316919?cc=us&lang=en&)
• Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa by Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones (eds.) (Routledge 2015, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138824836)
• Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials of Field Urbanism by Renne Y. Chow (University of Hawai’I Press 2015, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9364-9780824853839.aspx)
• Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America by Peter A. Shulman (Johns Hopkins University Press 2015, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/coal-and-empire)
• Colonizing Paradise: Landscape & Empire in the British West Indies by Jefferson Dillman (University of Alabama Press 2015, http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Colonizing-Paradise,6120.aspx)
• Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821 (4^th Edition) by W. George Lovell (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2015, http://www.mqup.ca/conquest-and-survival-in-colonial-guatemala–fourth-edition-products-9780773545274.php)
• Critical Geographies of Cycling: History, Political Economy and Culture by Glen Norcliffe (Ashgate 2015, https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=20813&edition_id=1209352372&calcTitle=1 )
• Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger (Reaktion Books 2015, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/E/bo20173479.html)
• Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy by Giacomo Parrinello (Berghahn 2015, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=ParrinelloFault)
• Food Between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape by Nuno Domingos, José Manuel Sobral and Harry G. West (eds.) (Bloomsbury 2014, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-between-the-country-and-the-city-9780857855381/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=More%20info%20%C2%BB&utm_campaign=CONF_See%20you%20at%20ASFS_June15/)
• Foods That Changed History: How Foods Shaped Civilization from the Ancient World to the Present by Christopher Cumo (ABC-CLIO 2015, http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOGreenwood/product.aspx?pc=A4667C)
• Geofuels: Energy and the Earth by Alan R. Carroll (Cambridge University Press 2015, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-science/geofuels-energy-and-earth?format=PB?format=PB)
• Getting to Know ArcGIS, Fourth Edition by Michael Law and Amy Collins (ESRI 2015, http://esripress.esri.com/bookresources/index.cfm?event=catalog.book&id=16)
• Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050 by Brian Gardner (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/global-food-futures-9780857851550/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=More%20info%20%C2%BB&utm_campaign=CONF_See%20you%20at%20ASFS_June15/)
• Governments Around the World: From Democracies to Theocracies by Fred M. Shelley (ed.) (ABC-CLIO 2015, http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4774C)
• Mapping Native America: Cartographic Interactions between Indigenous Peoples, Government and Academia; Volume I: Cartography and the Government by Daniel G. Cole and Imre Sutton (eds.) (Daniel G. Cole 2014, https://www.createspace.com/4911389)
• Mapping Native America: Cartographic Interactions between Indigenous Peoples, Government and Academia; Volume II: Cartography and the Academy by Daniel G. Cole and Imre Sutton (eds.) (Daniel G. Cole 2014, https://www.createspace.com/4911626)
• Mapping Native America: Cartographic Interactions between Indigenous Peoples, Government and Academia; Volume III: Cartography and Indigenous Autonomy by Daniel G. Cole and Imre Sutton (eds.) (Daniel G. Cole 2014, https://www.createspace.com/4911691)
• Market Orientalism: Cultural Economy and the Arab Gulf States by Benjamin Smith (Syracuse University Press 2015, http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2015/market-orientalism.html)
• Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity: Two Generations on Two Continents by John S. Benson (Rowman & Littlefield 2015, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498504867/Missionary-Families-Find-a-Sense-of-Place-and-Identity-Two-Generations-on-Two-Continents)
• Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions by Dawn Wright (ed.) (ESRI 2015, http://www.esri.com/esri-news/releases/15-3qtr/ocean-solutions-earth-solutions)
• Places of Invention by Arthur P. Molella and Anna Karvellas (eds.) (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press 2015, http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/251398/places-of-invention-by-edited-by-arthur-p-molella-and-anna-karvellas/)
• Political Ecologies of Meat by Jody Emel and Harvey Neo (eds.) (Routledge 2015, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415736947/)
• Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox (Cornell University Press 2015, http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?gcoi=80140100865490)
• The Routledge History of Genocide by Cathie Carmichael and Richard C. Maguire (eds.) (Routledge 2015, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415529969/)
• Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (University of Minnesota Press 2015, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/stone)
• Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas by Hannah Appel, Arthur Mason and Michael Watts (eds.) (Cornell University Press 2015, http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100370980)
• Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate by Anton Earle, Ana Elisa Cascao, Stina Hansson, Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal (Routledge 2015, http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415629751/)
• The Undersea Network by Nicole Starosielski (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Undersea-Network)
• Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country by Traci Brynne Voyles (University of Minnesota Press 2015, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/wastelanding)