New Books: October 2017
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.
October 2017
American’s West: A History, 1890-1950by David M. Wrobel (Cambridge University Press 2017)
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planningby Melody L. Hoffmann (University of Nebraska Press 2016)
Black Dragon River: A Journey Down The Amur River Between Russia and Chinaby Dominic Ziegler (Penguin Books 2016)
The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering by Nicholas De Genova (Duke University Press 2017)
Cities For Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics by Gavin Shatkin (Cornell University Press 2017)
Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton (Polity Books 2017)
Delicious Geography: From Place to Plateby Gary Fuller and T.M. Reddekopp (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)
Dialogues on Power and Space by Carl Schmitt (Polity Books 2015)
Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policyby Jason Dittmer (Duke University Press 2017)
Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)
Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Downing (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges by Federico Ferretti, Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre, Anthony Ince, Francisco Toro (eds.) (Routledge 2018)
In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Affect, Materiality and Meaning Making by Luke Bennett (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)
J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History by Josef Benson (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2018)
Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Placeby Dara Downey, Ian Kinane, and Elizabeth Parker (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literatureby Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira (eds.) (University of Minnesota Press 2017)
Life in the Age of Drone Warfare by Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.) (Duke University Press Books 2017)
Limits of The Known by David Roberts (W. W. Norton & Company 2016)
Oil, 2nd Edition by Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon (Polity Books 2017)
The Red Atlas: How The Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent (University Of Chicago Press 2017)
Scaling Identities: Nationalism and Territoriality by Guntram H. Herb and David H. Kaplan (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)
Sugar by Ben Richardson (Polity Books 2015)
Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globeby Sumathi Ramaswamy (University Of Chicago Press 2017)
Theorising Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narrativesby Ian Kinane (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
Transnationalism and the Jews: Culture, History and Prophecy by Jacob Egholm Feldt (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
What’s in a Name?: Talking about Urban Peripheries by Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms (eds.) (University of Toronto Press 2017)
