New Books: October 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 BooksDepartment 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.

October 2016

Contextualizing Disaster by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller (eds.) (Berghahn Books 2016)

Crossing Boundaries For Collaboration: Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon by Stephen G. Perz (Lexington Books 2016)

A Cultural History of Underdevelopment Latin America in the U.S. Imagination by John Patrick Leary (University of Virginia Press 2016)

Cultural Studies 50 Years On: History, Practice and Politics by Kieran Connell and Mathew Hilton (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

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

The Ethics and Politics of Immigration: Core Issues and Emerging Trends by Alex Sager (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860 by Gergely Baics (Princeton University Press 2016)

Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 by Brian Freshener (University of Nebraska Press 2011)

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth: Following nature’s way by Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian D. Fath, Søren Nors Nielsen, Federico M. Pulselli, Daniel A. Fiscus and Simone Bastianoni (Routledge 2015)

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884 by Ludger Muller-Wille [ed.] William Barr [translator] (University of Toronto Press 2016)

Getting to Know Web GIS, 2nd Edition by Pinde Fu (ESRI Press 2016)

GIS Technology Applications in Environmental and Earth Sciences by Bai Tian (CRC Press 2017)

Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media by Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb (eds.) (Columbia University Press 2016)

Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment by Sandra Rebok (University of Virginia Press 2014)

In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and Its Impact in Eastern Europe by Doubravka Olšáková (ed.) (Berghahn Books 2016)

The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods by Laura Zanotti (University of Arizona Press 2016)

Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India by Llerena Guiu Searle (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space by Nicolas Howe (University of Chicago Press 2016)

Life as a Hunt: Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape by Stuart A. Marks (Bergahn Books 2016)

The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century by Theresa Enright (MIT Press 2016)

Moroccan Dreams: Oriental Myth, Colonial Legacy by Claudio Minca and Lauren Wagner (I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd 2016)

Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines: Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession by Arnisson Andre Ortega (Lexington Books 2016)

Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 by Charles S. Maier (Harvard University Press 2016)

Place Names of Wisconsin by Edward Callary (University of Wisconsin Press 2016)

Population Health Intervention Research by Daniel W. Harrington, Sara McLafferty, and Susan J. Elliott (eds.) (Routledge 2017)

The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt by Richard J. White, Simon Springer, and Marcelo Lopes de Souza (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America by John W. Frazier, Eugene L. Tettey-Fio, and Norah F. Henry (eds.) (Sony Press 2016)

Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading by Leigh Raymond (MIT Press 2016)

The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier by Rebecca J. Kinney (University of Minnesota Press 2016)

Settlements at the Edge: Remote Human Settlements in Developed Nations by Andrew Taylor, Dean B. Carson, Prescott C. Ensign, Lee Huskey, Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Gertrude Saxinger (Edward Elgar Publishing  2016)

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

Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures by Jon Lang and Nancy Marshall (Routledge 2017)

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

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