New Books: May 2016
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 2016
Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America by Felipe Correa (University of Texas Press 2016)
British Urban Trees: A Social and Cultural History, c. 1800–1914 by Paul A. Elliott (White Horse Press 2016)
City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives by Jonathan Barnett (Routledge 2016)
Climate Change and the Future of Cities: Mitigation, Adaptation, and Social Change on an Urban Planet by Eric Klinenberg (ed.) (Duke University Press 2016)
Defying Dystopia by Ed Ayres (Transaction 2016)
Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania by Stefan Doronel (Berghahn Books 2016)
Dwelling in Conflict: Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging by Emily McKee (Stanford University Press 2016)
Ecuadorians in Madrid: Migrants’ Place in Urban History by Araceli Masterson-Algar (Palgrave Macmillan 2016)
El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America by Arlene Davila (University of California Press 2016)
Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms Over the Life Course: Adventures in the Interval by Elaine Stratford (Routledge 2015)
The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space by Ulrich Oslender (Duke University Press 2016)
Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatiality’s of the Third Reich by Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (eds.) (University of Chicago Press 2016)
The Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans by Lyell D. Henry Jr. (University of Iowa Press 2016)
Latin America and the Caribbean in the Global Context: Why Care About the Americas? by Betty Horwitz and Bruce M. Bagley (Routledge 2016)
Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town by Jillian R. Cavanaugh (Wiley-Blackwell 2012)
Manifestly Haraway by Donna J. Haraway (University of Minnesota Press 2016)
A Nice Place to Visit: Tourism and Urban Revitalization in the Postwar Rustbelt by Aaron Cowan (Temple University Press 2016)
The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger by Carlo Caduff (University of California Press 2015)
People and Places: A 21st Century Atlas of the UK by Danny Dorling and Bethan Thomas (Policy Press 2016)
The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India by Edward Simpson (Hurst Publishers 2014)
The Routledge History of American Foodways by Michael D. Wise and Jennifer Jensen Wallach (Routledge 2016)
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor by Lisa Goff (Harvard University Press 2016)
Shaping a World Already Made: Landscape and Poetry of the Canadian Prairies by Carl J. Tracie (University of Regina Press 2016)
South Pole: Nature and Culture by Elizabeth Leane (Reaktion Books 2016)
Touring the West with Leaping Lena 1925 by W.C. Clark, David Dary (ed.) (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)
What the Rest Think of the West: Since 600 AD by Laura Nader (University of California Press 2015)
