New Books: September 2013

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.

September, 2013

  • The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux and the Buffalo Park System. Kowsky, Francis R. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press 2013. $39.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-62534-006-1).

  • Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Amrith, Sunil S. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-674-72483-9).


  • Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Walvin, James. London, England: Reaktion Books 2013. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-78023-194-5).


  • A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era. Karson, Robin. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-62534-048-1).


  • An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism. Nelson, Velvet. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2013. $49.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-442-1072-1).


  • Conversations with Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination. Tydeman, William E. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $19.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8061-4407-8).


  • Creative Economies in Post-Industrial Cities-Manufacturing a (Different) Scene. Breitbart, Myrna Margulies. Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2013. $119.95 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4094-1084-3).


  • Envisioning Sociology: Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction. Scott, John and Ray Bromley. Albany, NY: State University New York 2013. $90.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4384-4731-5).


  • ESRI ArcGIS Desktop Associate Certification Study Guide. Schmidt, Miriam. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press 2013. $79.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-58948-351-4).


  • The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris. Zhang, Yue. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 2013. $25.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-8166-8369-7).


  • The GIS 20: Essential Skills. Clemmer, Gina. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press 2013. $49.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-58948-322-4).


  • Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050. Gardner, Brian. New York, NY: Bloomsbury 2013. $34.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-85785-155-0).


  • Global Information Society: Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility. Wilson, Mark I., Aharon Kellerman, and Kenneth E. Corey. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-7425-5694-2).


  • The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran 1917–1919, Second Edition. Majd, Mohammad Gholi. Lanham, MD: University Press of America 2013. $29.99 paper (ISBN 978-0-7618-6167-6).


  • Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power. Miller, Ian Jared, Julia Adeney Thomas, and Brett L. Wakler, eds. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’I Press 2013. $30.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-8248-3876-8).


  • Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean. Pyla, Panayiota, ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2013. $24.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-977122-44-8).


  • The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes. Valencius, Conevery Bolton. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press 2013. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-226-05389-9).


  • Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico. Kessell, John L. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press 2013. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8061-4377-4).


  • The Native Landscape Reader. Ryan, Robert L, ed. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press 2013. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-1-55849-884-6).



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    The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society, Revised Edition. Rapaport, Moshe. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’I Press 2013. $48.00 paper (ISBN 978-0-8248-3586-6).


  • Refrigerations, Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America. Rees, Jonathan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press 2013. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4217-1106-4).


  • The Sea: A Cultural History. Mack, John. London, England: Reaktion Books 2011. $29.00 paper (ISBN 978-1-78023-184-6).


  • Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements. Nicholls, Walter, Byron Miller, and Justin Beaumont, eds. Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2013. $124.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-7546-7778-9).


  • Sustainable Development in Amazonia: Paradise in the Making. Otsuki, Kei. New York, NY: Routledge 2013. $135.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-415-64076-3).

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