New Books: March 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.
March, 2014
- Alcohol in World History by Hames, Gina (Routledge 2012, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415311526/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SBU4_SJC_1TX_1em_1HIS_46193)
- Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity by Sheller, Mimi (MIT Press 2014, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/aluminum-dreams)
- An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650 – 1950 by Williamson, Tom (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/an-environmental-history-of-wildlife-in-england-1650-1950-9781441124869/)
- Architecturalized Asia: Mapping Continent through History by Rujivacharakul, Vimalin, H. Hazel Hahn, Ken Tadashi Oshima, and Peter Christensen (Hong Kong University Press/ University of Hawai’I Press 2013)
- Athens by McGregor, James H. S. (Harvard University Press 2014, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674047723)
- Bad Boy Geographer, A Memoir by Richard Symanski (Estrilda Publications 2013)
- Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming by Howe, Joshua P. (University of Washington Press 2014, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/HOWBEH.html)
- Beyond Nature and Culture by Descola, Philippe (University of Chicago Press 2013)
- Breakfast A History by Andreson, Heather Arndt (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759121652)
- Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers by Dann, Jim (Baraka Books 2013, http://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/challenging-the-mississippi-firebombers/)
- Cities, Regions and Flows by Hall, Peter V. and Markus Hesse (Routledge 2012, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415682190/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OTH6_SBU3_DA_3RF_1em_1GEO_ 46563_geogmonos)
- The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology by Wall, Derek (MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/commons-history)
- Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey by Nabhan, Gary Paul (University of California Press 2014, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267206)
- Ecologies and Politics of Health by King, Brian and Kelley A. Crews (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415590662/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OTH6_SBU3_DA_3RF_1em_1GEO_ 46563_geogmonos)
- Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean by Hughes, J. Donald (University of John Hopkins Press 2014, http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9781421412108&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y)
- Famous Geographers in Need of Schooling by Richard Symanski (Estrilda Publications 2013)
- Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy by Counihan, Carole and Valeria Siniscalchi (Bloomsbury 2013, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/food-activism-9780857858337/)
- Food Systems in an Unequal World: Pesticides, Vegetables, and Agrarian Capitalism in Costa Rica by Galt, Ryane (University of Arizona Press 2014, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2466.htm)
- The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology: Lessons from China by Gallagher, Kelly Sims (MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/globalization-clean-energy-technology)
- Globalization: The Key Concepts by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Bloomsbury 2014, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/globalization-9780857857422/)
- Historical Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, 1600-1850 by Veit, Richard and David Orr (University of Tennessee Press 2014, http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Archaeology-Delaware-Valley-1600-1850/dp/1572339977)
- Historical GIS Research in Canada by Bonnel, Jennifer and Marcel Fortin, eds (University of Calgary Press 2013)
- A History of the Garden in Fifty Tools by Laws, Bill (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo17978410.html)
- Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840–1860 by Hilliard, Sam Bowers (University of Georgia Press 2014, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/hog_meat_and_hoecake/)
- How to Read the American West: A Field Guide by Wyckoff, William (University of Washington Press 2014, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/WYCHOW.html)
- A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China by Chio, Jenny (University of Washington Press 2014, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/CHILAN.html)
- Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq: Encountering the Abyss by Hirst, Aggie (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415621625/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu1_lan_4mx_1em_1pol_46298_interventions)
- Locating Right to the City in the Global South by Tony Roshan Samara, Shenjing He, Guo Chen (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415635646/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OTH6_SBU3_DA_3RF_1em_1GEO_ 46563_geogmonos)
- Lunch: A History by Elias, Megan (Rowman and Littlefield 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442227460)
- Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World by Husain, Aiyaz (Harvard University Press 2014, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674728882)
- Maritime History and Identity: The Sea and Culture in the Modern World by Duncan, Redford (I.B. Tauris 2013)
- Maritime History and Identity: The Sea and Culture in the Modern World by Duncan, Redford (I.B. Tauris 2013, http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Humanities/History/History specific events topics/Maritime history/Maritime History and Identity The Sea and Culture in the Modern World.aspx?menuitem=%7B5E667009-66A3-482D-B3BE-6BBF6F416DBC%7D)
- New York City: A Food Biography by Smith, Andrew F. (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442227132)
- The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast by Henderson, Bonnie (Oregon State University 2014, http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/next-tsunami)
- Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala by Weld, Kirsten (Duke University Press 2014, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Paper-Cadavers/)
- A People’s War on Poverty: Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in Houston by Phelps, Wesley G. (University of Georgia Press 2014, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/peoples_war_on_poverty)
- The Picnic A History by Levy, Walter (Rowman and Littlefield 2013, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759121829)
- Polar Geopolitics? Knowledges, Resources and Legal Regimes by Powell, Richard C. and Klaus Dodds (Edward Elgar 2014, http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=15044&breadcrumlink=&breadcrum=&sub_values=)
- Producer Services in China Economic and Urban Development by Yeh, Anthony, and Fiona Yang, eds (Routledge 2012)
- The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927 by Weaver, Jace (University of North Carolina Press 2014, http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3499)
- Resource Governance and Developmental States in the Global South: Critical International Political Economy Perspectives by Singh, Jewellord Nem and France Bourgouin (Palgrave Macmillan 2013, http://us.macmillan.com/resourcegovernanceanddevelopmentalstatesintheglobalsouth/JewellordNemSingh)
- Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa by Philpott, Robin (Baraka Books 2013, http://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/rwanda-and-the-new-scramble-for-africa/)
- Seeking Talent for Creative Cities: The Social Dynamics of Innovation by Grant, Jill L. (University of Toronto Press 2014, http://www.utppublishing.com/Seeking-Talent-for-Creative-Cities-The-Social-Dynamics-of-Innovation.html)
- Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco: What the experience of San Francisco reveals about the debate over urban transportation by Henderson, Jason (University of Massachusetts Press 2013, http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/street-fight – sthash.4ebOqTK9.dpuf)
- The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange by Karatani, Kojin (Duke University Press 2014, https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Structure-of-World-History/)
- Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: Craft, Creativity, and Cultural Heritage in Hawaii, California, and Australia by Warren, Andrew and Chris Gibson (University of Hawai’i Press 2014, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9116-9780824839437.aspx)
- Taiwan’s Struggle: Voices of the Taiwanese by Shyu-tu Lee and Jack F. Williams (Rowman and Littlefield 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442221420)
- The Tupac Amaru Rebellion by Walker, Charles F. (Harvard University Press 2014, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674058255)
- The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze by Solt, George (University of California Press 2014, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520282353)
- Up North: St. Louis’s Summer Colonies on Lake Huron in the Golden Age of Travel by Brookes, Douglas Scott (University of Chicago Press 2013)
- Weed Land: Inside America’s Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit by Hecht, Peter (University of California Press 2014, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275430)
- The West As the Other: A Genealogy of Chinese Occidentalism by Wang, Mingming (Chinese University Press 2014, http://www.chineseupress.com/en/products/3268/The West As the Other: A Genealogy of Chinese Occidentalism)
- Wild Again: The Struggle to Save the Black-Footed Ferret by Jachowski, David S. (University of California Press 2014, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520281653)
- Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians:Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana by White, Sophie (University of Pennsylvania Press 2012, http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15041.html)
