New Books: October 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). Authors interested in reviewing books should also contact the Editor-in-Chief (kentm@lsu.edu).
- Abolitionist Geographies by Schoolman, Martha (University of Minnesota 2014, https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/abolitionist-geographies)
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer by Varnum, Robin (University of Oklahoma Press 2104, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/1888/lvar%20n%20%20ez%20cabeza%20de%20vaca)
- Ancient Plants and People: Contemporary Trends in Arcaeobotany by Madella, Marco, Lancelotti, Carla and Manon Savard (University of Arizona Press 2014, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2480.htm)
- The Ashgate Research Companion to Media Geography by Adams, Paul C., Jim Craine, and Jason Dittmer (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409444015)
- Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Prioritizing Policies by Blackman, Allen, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, Juha Siikamäki, Daniel Velez-Lopez (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415730969/)
- The Bloomsbury Companion to Anarchism by Kinna, Ruth ed. (Bloomsbury 2014, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-bloomsbury-companion-to-anarchism-9781628924305/)
- Caring for Place Ecology, Ideology, and Emotion in Traditional Landscape Management by Anderson, E.N. (Left Coast Press 2014, http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=487)
- Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida by Corrigan, Matthew T. (University of Florida Press 2014, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=CORRI002)
- Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, by William H. Frey (Brookings Institution Press 2014, http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2014/diversityexplosion)
- Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West by Fox, Sarah Alisabeth (University of Nebraska Press 2014, http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Downwind,675935.aspx)
- Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage by Brulotte, Ronda L. and Michael A. Di Giovine, (Ashgate 2014, https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=11627&edition_id=11991)
- Everyday Moral Economies: Food, Politics and Scale in Cuba, by Marisa Wilson (Wiley-Blackwell 2013, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118302001.html)
- Geopolitics: An Introductory Reader by Dittmer, Jason and Jo Sharp (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415666633/)
- Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City by Marinaro, Isabelle Clough and Bjørn Thomassen (Indiana University Press 2014, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807217)
- Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies, Editor: Stepputat, Finn (Manchester University Press 2014, http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719096082)
- Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean by Mulcahy, Matthew (John Hopkins University Press 2014, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/hubs-empire)
- Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia by Rostain, Stephen (Left Coast Press 2013, http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=410)
- Land Change Science, Political Ecology, and Sustainability by Brannstrom, Christian and Jacqueline M. Vadjunec (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415540230/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_vj_3rf_1em_%2B9env_56662_latinamercluster)
- Landesque Capital: The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications by Håkansson, N Thomas and Mats Widgren (Left Coast Press 2014, http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=497)
- Maryland Geography: An Introduction by DiLisio, James (John Hopkins University Press 2014, https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/maryland-geography)
- Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens by Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (University of California Press 2014, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520277762)
- Pornotopia: An essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics by Preciado, Beatriz (Zone Books 2014, http://www.zonebooks.org/titles/PREC_POR.html)
- Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalitles, and Interwar India by Legg, Stephen (Duke University Press 2014, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Prostitution-and-the-Ends-of-Empire/index-viewby=subject&categoryid=74&sort=newest.html)
- Rainforest Tourism, Conservation and Management: Challenges for Sustainable Development by Prideaux, Bruce (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415635820/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_vej_3rf_1em_9env_59396_searthscanforest)
- Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War by Lees , William B. and Frederick P. Gaske (University of Florida Press 2014, http://upf.com/book.asp?id=GASKE001)
- Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World by Bynum, William F. and Bynum, Helen (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo19341626.html)
- The Routledge History of Food by Helstosky, Carol (Routledge 2014, http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415628471/)
- Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia: HIstorical Ecology of Social Complexity by Schaan, Denise P. (Left Coast Press 2012, http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=366)
- Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing Productive Cities by Viljoen, André and Katrin Bohn (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415540582/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SBU3_MBS_2PR_1em_2LAN_57941_Solus)
- Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon by Pokorny, Benno (Routledge 2013, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415660679/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_vj_3rf_1em_%2B9env_56662_latinamercluster)
- Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance by Colten, Craig E. (Louisiana State University Press 2014, http://lsupress.org/books/detail/southern-waters/)
- Spices and Tourism: Destinations, Attractions and Cuisines by Jolliffe, Lee (Channel View Publications 2014, http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?sort=sort_date/d&sf1=title_exact&st1=spicesandtourism)
- Tortillas: A Cultural History by Morton, Paula E. (University of New Mexico Press 2014, http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=13149100702419)
- Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement by Naguib Pellow, David (University of Minnesota Press 2014, http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/total-liberation)
- Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age by Bartmanski, Dominik and Ian Woodward (Bloomsbury 2014, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/vinyl-9780857857316/#sthash.VOqPPo1L.dpuf)
- Water for Food Security and Well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean by Willaarts, Bárbara A., Alberto Garrido, and M. Ramón Llamas (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415713689/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu3_vj_3rf_1em_%2B9env_56662_latinamercluster)
- The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism, by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams, eds. (Wiley-Blackwell 2014, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118474481.html)