New Books: November 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.

November 2016

Africa’s First Democrats: Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirqazak H. Hussen by Abdi Ismail Samatar (Indiana University Press 2016)

Ancient Plants and People: Contemporary Trends in Arcaeobotany by Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti, and Manon Savard (University of Arizona Press 2014)

Anthropologies of Guayana: Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia by Neil L. Whitehead and Stephanie Alleman (eds.) (University of Arizona Press 2016)

Cannabis: Evolution & Ethnobotany by Robert C. Clark and Mark D. Merlin (University of California Press 2016)

Canoes: A Natural History in North America by Mark Neuzil & Norman Sims (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

Duress: Imperial Durabilities in our Times by Ann Laura Stoler (Duke University Press 2016)

Easy On, Easy Off: The Urban Pathology of America’s Small Towns by Jack Williams (University of Virginia Press 2016)

Eating The Ocean by Elspeth Probyn (Duke University Press 2016)

Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology by Allan S. Gilbert, Paul Goldberg, Vance T. Holliday, Rolfe D. Mandel, and Robert S. Sternberg (eds.) (Springer 2017)

Food and Power in Hawai’i: Visions of Food Democracy by Aya Hirata Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata (eds.) (University of Hawai’i Press 2016)

Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy by Chris Haynes, Jennifer Merolla, and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan (Russell Sage Foundation 2016)

Indigenous Homelessness: Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Evelyn J. Peters and Julia Christensen (eds.) (University of Manitoba Press 2016)

Interpreting Our World: 100 Discoveries that Revolutionized Geography by Joseph J. Kerski (ABC-CLIO 2016)

Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation by Carl Schmitt, Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (translator), and Russell A. Berman (ed.) (Telos Press 2017)

Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West by Sara Dant (Wiley-Blackwell 2016)

Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, Eighth Edition by A. Jon Kimberling, Aileen R. Buckley, Phillip C. Muehrcke, and Juliana O. Muehrcke (ESRI Press 2016)

The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America by Andrew Russell and Elizabeth Rahman (eds.) (Bloomsbury 2016)

Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration by Karen C. Pinto (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Moral Ecology of a Forest: The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation by José E. Martínez-Reyes (University of Arizona Press 2016)

Mountain: Nature and Culture by Veronica della Dora (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Nature & History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson by James D. Rice (Johns Hopkins University Press 2009)

New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops by Paul E. Minnis (University of Arizona Press 2014)

Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia’s Petroleum Sector by Stephen C. Cote (West Virginia University Press 2016)

Peanuts and Philosophy: You’re a Wise Man, Charlie Brown! by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene (eds.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2017)

People Cities: The Life and Legacy of Jan Gehl by Annie Matat and Peter Newman (Island Press 2016)

Sea Level Rise in Florida: Science, Impacts, and Options by Albert C. Hine, Don P. Chambers, Tonya D. Clayton, Mark R. Hafen, and Gary T. Mitchum (University Press of Florida 2016)

Supplanting America Railroads: The Early Auto Age by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle (University of Tennessee Press 2016)

Towards a Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Devices, Desires, and Dissent by Harriet Bulkeley, Matthew Paterson, and Johannes Stripple (eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Treasures from the Map Room by Debbie Hall (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Unprecedented Climate Mobilization: A Handbook for Citizens and their Governments by Elizabeth Woodward and David Ray Griffin (Clarity Press 2016)

Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origin of Conservation by Miles A. Powell (Harvard University Press 2016)

Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll (Duke University Press 2016)