New Books: May 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 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.

May 2013

• After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California. Alagona, Peter S. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 2013. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-520-27506-5).

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  A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition. Erickson, Paul A., and Liam D. Murphy. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press 2013. $34.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4426-0659-3).

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  Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict. Nibert, David A. New York, NY: Columbia University Press 2013. $29.5 paper (ISBN 978-0-231-15189-4).

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  Antarctica: Global Science from a Frozen Continent. Walton, David W.H., ed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press 2013. $55.00  (ISBN 978-1-107-00392-7).

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  Borderline Slavery: Mexico, United States, and the Human Trade. Tiano, Susan, Moira Murphy-Aguilar, eds. Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2012. $99.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4094-3968-4).

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  Chinese History in Geographical Perspective. Du, Yongtao, and Jeff Kyong-McCain, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2013. $65 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7391-7230-8).

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  City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago. Smith, Carl. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2013. $35 cloth (ISBN 978-0-226-02251-2).

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  Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards. McGuire, Bill, and Mark Maslin, eds. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell 2013. $159.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-470-65865-9).

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  Commemorating and Forgetting: Challenges for the New South Africa. Murray, Martin J. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 2013. $25.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-8300-0).

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  Culinary Capital. Naccarato, Peter, and Kathleen Lebesco. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $ cloth (ISBN 978-0-85785-382-0).

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  Cusco: Urbanism and Archaeology in the Inka World. Farrington, Ian. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida 2013. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8130-4433-0).

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  Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia. Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala and Gopa Samanta. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 2013. $65 cloth (ISBN 978-0-300-18830-1).

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  DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures. Luvaas, Brent. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $ cloth (ISBN 978-0-85785-039-3).

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  Ecotourism Development in Costa Rica: The Search for Oro Verde. Miller, Andrew P. Lanham, MD: Lexington Boks 2012. $60 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7391-7460-9).

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  Empire on Display: San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Moore, Sarah J. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-4348-4).

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  Fieldwork for Human Geography. Phillips, Richard and Jennifer Johns. London, England: SAGE 2012. $£24.99 paper (ISBN 978-0-85702-587-6).

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  Food Words: Essays in Culinary Culture. Jackson, Peter, ed. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $99.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-85785-195-6).

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  Forests and Climate Change: The Social Dimensions of REDD in Latin America. Hall, Anthony. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar 2012. $110 cloth (ISBN 978-1-84980-282-6).

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  Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash. Humes, Edward. New York, NY: Penguin Books 2012. $16 paper (ISBN 9781583335239).

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  Geographical Diversions: Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions. Harris, Tina. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press 2013. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8203-4512-3).

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  International Seafarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century. Sampson, Helen. New York, NY: Manchester University Press 2013. £70.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7190-8868-1).

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  Land of Strangers. Amin, Ash. New York, NY: Polity Books 2012. $22.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7456-5217-7).

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  Landscapes of Fear. Tuan, Yi-Fu. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 2013. $17.5 paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-8459-5).

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  Liminal Zones: Where Lakes End and Rivers Begin. Kim Trevathan. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press 2013. $26.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-57233-953-8).

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  Nuvuk, The Northernmost: Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska. Lum, Daniel J.I. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press 2013. $25 cloth (ISBN 978-1-60223-195-5).

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  Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience. Mitchell, W. J. T., Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2013. $15 paper (ISBN 978-0-226-04274-9).

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  Ordinary Ethics in China. Stafford, Charles, ed. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-85785-460-5).

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  Placing Animals: An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations. Urbanik, Julie. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2012. $29 paper (ISBN 978-1-4422-1185-8).

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  Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Erotocism. Lynch, Annette. New York, NY: Berg 2012. $ cloth (ISBN 978-1-84788-629-3).

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  Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics. Metcalfe, Sarah E. and David J. Nash, eds. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell 2012. $129.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-118-34325-8).

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  Readings for A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition. Erickson, Paul A., and Liam D. Murphy. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press 2013. $69.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4426-0656-2).

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  Religious Objects in Museums: Private Lives and Public Duties. Paine, Crispin. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-773-3).

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  Rethinking the Cuban Revolution Nationally and Regionally. Kumaraswami, Par. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell 2012. $34.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4443-6154-4).

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  Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. Van Duzer, Chet. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2013. $35 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7123-5890-3).

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  Secrets of the Irish Landscape. Jebb, Matthew, ed. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press 2013. $£25 cloth (ISBN 978-1-78205-01-0).

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  Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey. Featherstone, David and Joe Painter. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell 2013. $39.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-4443-3830-0).

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  The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics. Dodds, Klaus, Merje Kuus, and Joanne Sharp, eds. Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2013. $149.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4094-2380-5).

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  The Geography of Central America and Mexico: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography. Rumney, Thomas A. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press 2013. $ cloth (ISBN 978-0-8108-8636-0).

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  The Geography of International Terrorism: An Introduction to Spaces and Places of Violent Non-State Groups. Medina, Richard M., and  George F. Hepner. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press 2013. $79.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4398-8686-1).

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  The Geography of South America: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography. Rumney, Thomas A. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2013. $120 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8108-8634-6).

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  The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology. Carrier, James G., and Deborah B. Gewertz, eds. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $150.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-84788-384-1).

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  The Kingdom of Golf in America. Moss, Richard J. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press 2013. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8032-4482-5).

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  The Lure of the North Woods: Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest. Shapiro, Aaron. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 2013. $17.5 paper (ISBN 98-0-8166-7793-1).

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  The Microstates of Europe: Designer Nations in a Post-Modern World. Klieger, P. Christiaan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Boks 2013. $65 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7391-7426-5).

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  The Political Economy of Divided Islands: Unified Geographies , Multiple Polities. Baldacchino, Godfrey, ed. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan 2013. $90.0 cloth (ISBN 978-1-137-02312-4).

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  The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization. Merrifield, Andy. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press 2013. $22.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8203-4530-7).

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  The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change, Volumes 1 & 2. Matthews, John A., Patrick J. Bartlein, Keith R. Briffa, Alastair G. Dawson, Anne de Vernal, Tim Denham, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Frank Oldenfield, eds. London, England: SAGE 2012. $£275.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-85702-360-5).

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  The Tourist Gaze 3.0. Urry, John and Larsen, Jonas, eds. London, England: SAGE 2012. $£25.99 paper (ISBN 978-1-84920-377-7).

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  The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography. Barnes, Trevor J., Jamie Peck, Eric Shephard, eds. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell 2012. $199.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4443-3680-1).

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  Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa. Buscher, Bram. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2013. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8223-5420-8).

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  Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Nagy, Kelsi, and Phillip David Johnson II, eds. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 2013. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-8055-9).

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  Unrecognized States: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the modern Inernational System. Caspersen, Nina. New York, NY: Polity Books 2011. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7456-5342-6).

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  Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually. Marion, Jonathan S., and Jerome W. Crowder. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-85785-206-9).

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  World Art: An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts. Burt, Ben. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-84788-943-0).