New Books: June 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.
June 2015
- A New Scramble for Africa? The Rush for Energy Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sören Scholvin (ed.) (Ashgate 2015, https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&title_id=20124&edition_id=1209350658&calcTitle=1)
- Abbey in America: A Philosopher’s Legacy in a New Century by John A. Murray (ed.) (University of New Mexico Press 2015, http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000006126)
- Andean Waterways: Resource Politics in Highland Peru by Mattias Borg Rasmussen (University of Washington Press 2015, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/RASAND.html)
- The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas by Federico Luisetti, John Pickles and Wilson Kaiser (eds.) (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Anomie-of-the-Earth)
- Anthropocene Fictions: A Novel in a Time of Climate Change by Adam Trexler (University of Virginia Press 2015, http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4777.xml)
- Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, Theories, People and Practices Second Edition by Stuart C. Aitken and Gill Valentine (eds.) (SAGE Publishing 2015, http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book241824?siteId=sage-uk&prodTypes=any&q=approaches+to+human+geography&fs=1)
- The Camaro in the Pasture: Speculations on the Cultural Landscape of America by Robert B. Riley (University of Virginia Press 2015, http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4702.xml)
- Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age by Elizabeth A. Sutton (The University of Chicago Press 2015, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo20145532.html)
- Colorado: A Historical Atlas by Thomas J. Noel (University of Oklahoma Press 2015, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1963/colorado)
- The Colorado Plateau VI: Science and Management at the Landscape Scale by Laura F. Huenneke, Charles van Riper III, Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin (eds.) (University of Arizona Press 2015, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2511.htm)
- Discovering the Deep: A Photographic Atlas of the Seafloor and Ocean Crust by Jeffrey A. Karson, Deborah S. Kelley, Daniel J. Fornari, Michael R. Perfit and Timothy M. Shank (Cambridge University Press 2015, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/oceanography-and-marine-science/discovering-deep-photographic-atlas-seafloor-and-ocean-crust?format=HB)
- Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power by Jeffrey D. Needell (University Press of Florida 2015, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=NEEDE001)
- Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism by Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore (University of Minnesota Press 2015, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/fast-policy)
- From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store by Vicki Howard (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015, http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15362.html)
- 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)
- The Indigenous World 2015: IWGIA Yearbook by Cæcilie Mikkelsen (comp. & ed.) (IWGIA 2015, http://www.iwgia.org/publications/search-pubs?publication_id=716)
- Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain by Erik Swyngedouw (The MIT Press 2015, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/liquid-power)
- Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America by John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson (eds.) (University of Minnesota Press 2015, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/making-suburbia)
- Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion by Mark B. Salter (ed.) (University of Minnesota Press 2015, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/making-things-international-1)
- Ocean Sustainability in the 21st Century by Salvatore Aricò (ed.) (Cambridge University Press 2015, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/oceanography-and-marine-science/ocean-sustainability-21st-century?format=HB)
- Planning for Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures by Wayne J. Caldwell (ed.) (University of Manitoba Press 2015, http://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/planning-for-rural-resilience)
- Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico by Christopher R. Boyer (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Political-Landscapes)
- Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses by Vaclav Smil (The MIT Press 2015, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-density)
- Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy by John F. Collins (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Revolt-of-the-Saints)
- Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman (Simon & Schuster 2015, http://books.simonandschuster.com/Rust/Jonathan-Waldman/9781451691597)
- Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski (eds.) (University of Illinois Press 2015, http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/26bxm4qd9780252039362.html)
- Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859 by Innes M. Keighren, Charles W. J. Withers, and Bill Bell (University of Chicago Press 2015, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo19722688.html)
- The Undersea Network by Nicole Starosielski (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Undersea-Network)
- Why We Can’t Afford the Rich by Andrew Sayer (Policy Press 2015, http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?k=9781447320791)
- Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature by Jamie Lorimer (University of Minnesota Press 2015, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/wildlife-in-the-anthropocene?searchterm=wildlife+in+)
- Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy by Genevieve Carlton (The University of Chicago Press 2015, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo20145411.html)