New Books: June 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.
June, 2014
- Among Unknown Tribes: Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumhotz by Broyles, Bill. University of Texas Press [http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/broamo]
- Ancestral Places: Understanding Kanaka Geographies by Katrina-Ann R. Kapāʻanaokalāokeola Nākoa Oliveira. Oregon State University 2014. [http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/ancestral-places]
- Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany by Weszkalnys, Gisa. Berghahn Books 2010. [https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=WeszkalnysBerlin]
- The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson’s Secret Plan for Peace by Reisser, Wesley J. Rowman and Littlefield [https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739171127]
- Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationships of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Finney, Carolyn (University of North Carolina Press 2014, [http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3498]
- Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil by Perry, Keisha-Khan Y. Minnesota University Press 2013. [http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grab]
- Cartography from Pole to Pole: Selected Contributions to the XXVIth International Conference of the ICA by Buchroithner, Manfred, Prechtel, Nikolas, Burghardt, Dirk. Springer 2014. [http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-3-642-32617-2]
- Cities of North America: Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities by Short, Lisa Benton Rowman and Littlefield 2014 [https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442213135]
- Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics by Kurgan, Laura. Zone Books 2013. [http://www.zonebooks.org/titles/KURG_CLO.html]
- The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Oreskes, Naomi and Erik M. Conway. Columbia University Press 2014. [http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16954-7/the-collapse-of-western-civilization]]
- A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, and American Culture by Cockburn, Alexander. Verso Books 2013. [http://www.versobooks.com/books/1711-a-colossal-wreck]
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Schlosser, Eric. Penguin Books 2013. [http://www.penguin.com/book/command-and-control-by-eric-schlosser/9781594202278]
- Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba by Teaiwa, Katerina Martina Indiana University Press 2014. [http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?cPath=1037_6355&products_id=807362]
- Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary by Schubert, Dirk. Ashgate 2014 [http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=19615&edition_id=1209349334]
- Contested Mediterranean Spaces by Kousis, Maria, Tom Selwyn and David Clark. Berghahn Books 2011 [http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=KousisContested]
- Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America by Muhr, Thomas. Routledge 2014. [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415669078/]
- Creolization as Cultural Creativity by Baron, Robert and Ana C. Cara. University Press of Mississippi [http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1448]
- Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market by Doussard, Marc. Minnesota University Press 2013. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/degraded-work?searchterm=degraded]
- Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East by Amar, Paul and Vijay Prashad. Minnesota University Press 2013. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/dispatches-from-the-arab-spring]
- The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai by Weinstein, Liza Minnesota University Press 2014. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-durable-slum]
- EcoJoyce: The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce by Brazeau, Robert Joseph and Derek Gladwin. Cork University Press 2014. [http://www.corkuniversitypress.com/jamesjoyce-p/9781782050728.htm]
- The Emergence of a Modern City by Steiner, Henriette. Ashgate 2014. [http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472413260]
- 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]
- Ethnobotany in the New Europe: People, Health and Wild Plant Resources by Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel, Andrea Pieroni and Rajindra K. Puri. Berghahn Books 2010. [https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SantayanaEthnobotany]
- Evolution from the Galapagos: Two Centuries after Darwin by Trueba, Gabriel, Montúfar, Carlos [http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/book/978-1-4614-6731-1]
- Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City by Garrett, Bradley L. Verso Books 2013. [http://www.versobooks.com/books/1473-explore-everything]
- Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy by Venkatesh, Sudhir. Penguin Books 2013. [http://www.penguin.com/search/floating-city?_qry=FLOATING%20CITY]
- Food Consumption in China: The Revolution Continues by Zhou, Zhangyue, Hongbo Liu, and Lijuan Cao. Edward Elgar Publishing 2014. [http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781782549192.xml]
- Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job by Shugart, H. H. Columbia University Press 2014. [http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16908-0/foundations-of-the-earth]
- Global Geographies of the Internet by Warf, Barney. Springer 2013. [http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-94-007-1244-7]
- History and GIS by von Lünen, Alexander, Travis, Charles. Springer 2013. [http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-94-007-5008-1]
- History of Cartography: International Symposium of the ICA, 2012 by Liebenberg, Elri, Collier, Peter, Torok, Zsolt Gyozo. Springer 2014. [http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-3-642-33316-3]
- Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions by Brondízio, Eduardo S., Moran, Emilio F. Springer 2013. [http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+%26+archaeology/book/978-94-007-4779-1]
- Hydrocarbon Hucksters Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice by Zebrowski, Ernest and Mariah Zebrowski Leach. University Press of Mississippi 2014. [http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1598]
- HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities by Presner, Todd, David Shepard and Yoh Kawano. Harvard University Press 2014. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674725348]
- Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World by Morton, Timothy. Minnesota University Press 2013. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hyperobjects]
- The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent by Chatterjee, Piya and Sunaina Maira. Minnesota University Press 2014. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-imperial-university]
- The Inconvenient Indian: An insightful account into Indian policy by King, Thomas. Minnesota University Press 2013. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/press/press-clips/the-inconvenient-indian-an-insightful-account-into-indian-policy]
- Key Concepts in Historical Geography by Morrissey, John, David Nally, Ulf Strohmayer and Yvonne Whelan. SAGE Publishing 2014. [http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book230471]
- The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire by Kosmin, Paul J. Harvard University Press 2014. [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674728820]
- Landscape Ethnoecology: Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space by Johnson, Leslie Main and Eugene S. Hunn, eds. Berghahn Books 2010. [http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=johnsonlandscape]
- The Landscape Painting of China by Vanderstappen, Harrie A. University Press of Florida 2013. [http://upf.com/book.asp?id=VANDE001]
- The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Blanding Michael. Penguin Books 2014. [http://www.penguin.com/book/the-map-thief-by-michael-blanding/9781592408177]
- The Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania: Environmental and Social Change 1890-1916 by Robert B. Munson. Rowman and Littlefield 2013. [https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739177808]
- Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster by Miller, Andrea, Shearon Roberts and Victoria LaPoe. University Press of Mississippi 2014. [http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1672]
- On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Garfield, Simon. Penguin Group 2013. [http://www.penguin.com/book/on-the-map-by-simon-garfield/9781592407804]
- On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta by Lin-Liu, Jen. Penguin Books 2013. [http://www.penguin.com/book/on-the-noodle-road-by-jen-lin-liu/9781594632723]
- Paradigms in Cartography: An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries by Azocar Fernandez, P.I. and M. Buchroithner. Springer 2014. [http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-3-642-38892-7]
- Past Mobilities: Archaeological Approaches to Movement and Mobility by Leary, Jim. Ashgate Publishing 2014. [http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409464457]
- Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications by Manzo, Lynne C. and Patrick Devine-Wright. Routledge 2014. [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415538213/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=em ail&utm_campaign=SBU3_TMC_1TX_1em_3PLA_5158]
- Requiem for the Santa Cruz: An Environmental History of an Arizona River by Webb, Robert H., Julio L. Betancourt, R. Roy Johnson, and Raymond M. Turner. University of Arizona Press 2014. [http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2477.htm]
- The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon by Lomnitz, Claudio. Zone Books 2014. [http://www.zonebooks.org/titles/LOMN_RET.html]
- Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands: Frameworks & Perspectives by Walsh, Stephen J., Mena, Carlos F. Springer 2013, [http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/book/978-1-4614-5793-0]
- Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850 by Van Atta, John R. John Hopkins University Press 2014. [https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/securing-west]
- Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America by Nystrom, Eric C. University of Nevada Press 2014. [http://www.unpress.nevada.edu/Search/Title/seeing/Titles/Seeing%20Underground;2273?1]
- The Semiotics of Heritage Tourism by Watson, Steve and Waterton, Emma. Channel View Publications 2014. [http://channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/the-semiotics-of-heritage-tourism/]
- Soil as World Heritage by Dent, David. Springer 2014. [http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+%28default%29/book/978-94-007-6186-5]
- The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century by Rosen, William. Penguin Books 2014. [http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780670025893/third-horseman-climate-change-and-great-famine-14th-century]
- Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica by Stocker, Karen. Rowman and Littlefield 2013. [http://www.abebooks.com/Tourism-%C2%AD%E2%80%90Cultural-%C2%AD%E2%80%90Change-%C2%AD%E2%80%90Costa-%C2%AD%E2%80%90Rica-%C2%AD%E2%80%90Stocker/10845874315/bd]
- Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment by Lefebvre, Henri (au); Stanek, Łukasz (ed). Minnesota University Press 2014. [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/toward-an-architecture-of-enjoyment]
- Travel and Imagination by Lean, Garth, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton. Ashgate 2014. [http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=19516&edition_id=1209348839]
- A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Wade, Nicholas (Penguin Books 2014, [http://www.penguin.com/book/a-troublesome-inheritance-by-nicholas-wade/9781594204463]
- Walled States, Waning Sovereignty by Brown, Wendy. Zone Books 2014. [http://www.zonebooks.org/titles/BROW_WAL.html]
- Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe by Silberman, Marc, Karen E. Till, and Janet Ward. Berghahn Books 2012. [http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SilbermanWalls]
- War of the Whales by Horwitz, Joshua. Simon & Schuster 2014. [http://books.simonandschuster.com/War-of-the-Whales/Joshua-Horwitz/9781451645019]
- Why We Eat, How We Eat by Abbots, Emma-‐Jayne and Anna Lavis. Ashgate 2013. [http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=11873&edition_id=12244]