New Books: May 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.
May, 2014
- Japan: An Environmental History by Totman, Conrad (Tauris 2014, http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Earth sciences geography environment planning/The environment/Japan An Environmental History.aspx?menuitem=%7BBCE817D7-C139-4A8E-AAFE-902771DEE8A3%7D)
- America’s Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond byWilson, Randall K. (Rowman and Littlefield 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442207974)
- Forest Prairie Edge: Place in History in Saskatchewan by Massie, Merle (University of Manitoba Press 2014,http://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/forest-prairie-edge)
- Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation and Power by Sumira, Sylvia (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo17977698.html)
- The Geographical Unconscious by Loukaki, Argyro (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409426271)
- Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics by Goodman, Michael K. and Colin Sage (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754679707)
- Views of the Cordilleras an Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Critical Edition by von Humboldt, Alexander (Chicago University Press 2012, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo12490932.html)
- Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance by Uekötter, Frankand Uwe Lübken (Berghahn Books 2014, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=UekotterManaging)
- The Routledge History of Slavery by Heuman, Gad and Trevor Burnard (Routledge 2012, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415520836/
- Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard’s Map of Napoleon’s Russian Campaign of 1812 by Kraak, Menno-Jan (ESRI Press 2014, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteID=254&moduleID=0)
- Essentials of the Earth’s Climate System by Barry, Roger G. and Eileen A. Hall-McKim (Cambridge University Press 2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/essentials-earths-climate-system)
- The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France by Nester, William R. (University of Oklahoma Press 2014, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1843/the french and indian war and the conquest of new france)
- La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory by Klubock, Thomas Miller. (Duke University Press 2014, https://www.dukeupress.edu/La-Frontera/)
- The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich by Sylla, Ndongo (Ohio University Press 2014, http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/The+Fair+Trade+Scandal)
- Second Growth: The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation by Chazdon, Robin L. (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo17407876.html)
- The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography by Braverman, Irus, Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney, and Alexandre Kedar (Stanford University Press 2014, http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=23213)
- Neighborhood as Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City by Anguelovski, (The MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/neighborhood-refuge)
- Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Area by Seto, Karen C. and Anette Reenberg (The MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rethinking-global-land-use-urban-era)
- New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops by Minnis, Paul E. (University of Arizona Press 2014, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2473.htm)
- Nature™ Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age by Büscher, Bram, Wolfram Dressler and Robert Fletcher (University of Arizona Press 2014, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2472.htm)
- Zen of the Plains: Experiencing Wild Western Places byOlstad, Tyra A. (University of North Texas Press, http://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/3590)
- The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Roorda, Eric Pal, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo González, eds. (Duke University Press 2014, https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Dominican-Republic-Reader/)
- Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi by Cutter, Susan, Christopher T. Emrich, Jerry T. Mitchell,Walter W. Piegorsch, Mark M. Smith, and Lynn Weber (Cambridge University Press 2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/hurricane-katrina-and-forgotten-coast-mississippi)