New Books: March 2013

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 BooksDepartment 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.

March 2013
  • Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude. Murphy, Timothy. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2012. $24.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-4320-5).

  • Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511–2011 Volume 1, The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Inticacies of Engagement. Jarnagin, Laura. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2011. $22.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-8223-5401-7).


  • Climate Change and Human Mobility: Challenges to the Social Sciences. Hastrup, Kirsten and Karen Fog Olwig. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 2012. $99 Cloth (ISBN 978-1-107-02821-0).


  • Climate Change and Society. Urry, John. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $22.95 Paper (ISBN 78-0-7456-5037-1).


  • Climate Wars: What People Wll Be Killed for in the 21st Century. Welzer, Harald. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2012. $25 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-7456-5145-3).


  • Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food. Krampner, Jon. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2012. $27.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-231-16232-6).


  • Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies. Leitner, Michael, ed. New York, NY: Springer 2013. $179.00 Cloth (ISBN 978-94-007-4996-2).


  • Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages. Smith, Andrew F. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2012. $29.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-231-15116-0).


  • Ecologies and Politics of Health. King, Brian, and Kelley A. Crews. New York, NY: Routledge 2012. $160 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-415-59066-2).


  • Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas, 2nd Edition. Wood, Denis. Los Angeles, CA: Siglio 2013. $32 Paper (ISBN 978-1-938221-02-6).


  • Figures Infrastructures: An Atlas of Roads and Railways. Cattoor, Bieke and Bruno De Meulder. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: SUN 2011. $30.00 Cloth (ISBN 978-94-6105-1189).


  • Fish. Desmore, Elizabeth and J. Samuel Barkin. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $19.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5020-3).


  • Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. Fleming, James Rodger. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2010. $24.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-231-14413-1).


  • Food. Clapp, Jennifer. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $19.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-4936-8).


  • From the Ground Up: Community Gardens in New York City and the Politics of Spatial Transformation. Eizenberg, Efrat. Farnham, England: Ashgate 2013. $99.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-1-4094-2909-8).


  • Germany in Central America: Competitive Imperialism, 1821–1929. Schoonover, Thomas. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press 2012. $34.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-8173-5413-8).


  • International Students and Scholars in the United States: Coming from Abroad. Alberts, Heike C. and Helen D. Hazen, eds. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan 2013. £54.50 Cloth (ISBN 978-1-137-02446-6).


  • Land. Hall, Derek. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2012. $19.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5277-1).


  • Landscapes of Capital: Representing Time, Space and Globalization in Corporate Advertising. Goldman, Robert and Stephen Papson. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $24.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5208-5).


  • Life on a Rocky Farm: Rural Life near New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century. Barger, Lucas C. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press 2013. $19.95 Paper (ISBN 978-1-4384-4602-8).


  • Linked Data: A Geographic Perspective. Hart, Glen and Catherine Dolbear. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press 2013. $119.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-1-4398-6995-6).


  • Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America. Harris, Dianne. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 2013. $39.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-5456-7).


  • Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Mignolo, Walter D. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2012. $26.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-691-15609-5).


  • Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina. Adams, Vincanne. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2013. $22.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-8223-5449-9).


  • Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics. Stedman Jones, Daniel . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2012. $35 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-691-15157-1).


  • Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives. Alexiades, Miguel N. New York, NY: Berghahn Books 2012. $34.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-85745-797-4).


  • New Mexico’s Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People. Dunmire, William W.. Albuqueque, NM: University of New Mexico Press 2013. $34.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-8263-5889-3).


  • On the Rim of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the British Atlantic World. Pressly, Paul M. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press 2013. $24.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-8203-4503-1).


  • Parks, Peace, and Partnership: Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation. Quinn, Michael S., Len Broberg, and Wayne Freimund. Calgary, Canada: University of Calgary Press 2012. $45.95 Paper (ISBN 978-1-55238-642-2).


  • Picturing Algeria. Bourdieu, Pierre. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2012. $27.50 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-231-14842-9).


  • Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History. Sayer, Derek. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2013. $35 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-691-04380-7).


  • Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography. Roberts, Sean. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2013. $49.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-674-06648-9).


  • Properties of Biolence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico. Correia, David. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press 2013. $24.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-8203-4502-4).


  • Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future. Gornitz, Vivien. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2013. $40 Paper (ISBN 978-0-231-14739-2).


  • River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America’s Rivers. McCool, Daniel. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2012. $34.5 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-231-16130-5).


  • Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria. Watts, Michael J. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press 2013. $28.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-823-4445-4).


  • The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism. Meyer, William B. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2013. $25.00 Paper (ISBN 978-0-262-51846-8).


  • The Geographies of Canada. Tremblay, Rémy and Hugues Chicoine, eds. Pierterlen, Switzerland: Peter Lang 2013. $45.95 Paper (ISBN 978-2-87574-017-5).


  • The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia. Kennedy, Dane. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2013. $35 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-674-04847-8).


  • The New Scramble for Africa. Carmody, Pádraig. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $24.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-4785-2).


  • The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food. Allen, John S. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2012. $25.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-674-05572-8).


  • The Politics of Climate Change, 2nd Edition. Giddens, Anthony. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $19.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5515-4).


  • The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684–1757. Zhao, Gang. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press 2013. $56 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-8248-3643-6).


  • The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment. Hansen, Peter H. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2013. $35 Cloth (ISBN 9780674047990).


  • The Tyranny of Science. Feyerabend, Pauk. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $17.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-5190-3).


  • The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs. Sonia Hirt, ed. New York, NY: Routledge 2013. $110 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-415-52599-2).


  • The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics. Parr, Adrian. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2012. $29.5 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-231-15828-2).


  • Timber. Dauvergne, Peter and Jane Lister. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $19.95 Paper (ISBN 978-0-7456-4928-3).


  • Towards Co-Creation of Sciences: Building on the Plurality of Worldviews, Values and Methods in Different Knowledge Communities. Haverkort, Bertus, Freddy Delgado Burgoa, Darshan Shankar, and David Millar. New Delhi, India: Nimby Books 2012. $ Paper (ISBN 978-81-90570-4-4).


  • Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play. Scott, James C. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2012. $24.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-691-15529-6).


  • Value in Marx: The Persistence of Value in a More-Than-Capitalist World. Henderson, George. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 2013. $22.50 Paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-8096-2).


  • Vesuvius. Darley, Gillian. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2012. $22.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-674-05285-7).


  • Wexford Castles: Landscape, Context and Settlement. Colfer, Billy. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press 2013. $€49.00 Cloth (ISBN 978-185918-493-6).


  • Wood. Radkau, Joachim. Malden, MA: Polity Books 2011. $29.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-7456-4688-6).


  • Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn. Isaac, Joel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2012. $49.95 Cloth (ISBN 978-0-674-06574-1).

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