New Books: September 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).
Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.
- Africa: Geographies of Change by Grant, Richard (Oxford University Press 2014, http://global.oup.com/ushe/product/africa-9780199920563;jsessionid=2643C40ABA6CC0F13D0329D40879552C?cc=us&lang=en&)
- The Atchafalaya River Basin: History and Ecology of an American Wetland by Piazza, Bryan P. (Texas A&M University Press 2014,http://tamupress.com/product/Atchafalaya-River-Basin,7733.aspx)
- Atlas of Cities by Knox, Paul (Princeton University Press 2014, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10307.html)
- Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England by Pastore, Christopher L. (Harvard University Press 2014, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674281417)
- China’s New Retail Economy: A Geographic Perspective by Wang, Shuguang (Routledge 2014,http://www.guilfordpress.co.uk/books/details/9780415636230/)
- Citizenship by Bellamy, Richard and Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy (Routledge 2014,http://www.guilfordpress.co.uk/books/details/9780415664868/)
- Climate Change and Development by Tanner, Thomas and Horn-Phathanothai, Leo (Routledge 2014,http://www.guilfordpress.co.uk/books/details/9780415664271/)
- Coastal Wetlands of the World: Geology, Ecology, Distribution and Applications by Scott, David B., Jennifer Frail-Gauthier and Petra J. Mudie (Cambridge University Press 2014, http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-science/coastal-wetlands-world-geology-ecology-distribution-and-applications)
- Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life by Kitchin, Rob and Martin Dodge (MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/codespace)
- The Companion to Development Studies, Third Edition by Desai, Vandana and Rob Potter (Routledge 2014,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781444167245/)
- Controlling Contested Places by Shepardson, Christine (University of California Press 2014, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520280359)
- Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt by Barnes, Jessica (Duke University Press 2014,https://www.dukeupress.edu/Cultivating-the-Nile/)
- The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade by Cowen, Deborah (University of Minnesota 2014,http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-deadly-life-of-logistics)
- Desert Water: The Future of Utah’s Water Resources by Crimmel, Hal (The University of Utah Press 2014,http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/upcat/id/1927/rec/1)
- The Devil behind the Mirror by Gregory, Steven (University of California Press 2014, http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520282254)
- Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions by Anderson, Ben (Ashgate 2014,http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754670247)
- Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City-On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put by Huse,Tone (Ashgate 2014,http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409452768)
- Experimental Film and Anthropology by Schneider, Arnd and Caterina Pasqualino (Bloomsbury 2014,http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/experimental-film-and-anthropology-9780857854438/)
- Fieldwork in the Global South: Ethical Challenges and Dilemmas by Lunn, Jenny (Routledge 2014,http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415628419/)
- The Food History Reader by Albala, Ken (Bloomsbury 2014, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-food-history-reader-9780857854131/)
- Framing the Global: Entry Points for Research by Kahn, Hilary E. (Indiana University Press 2014,http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807220)
- Fundamentals of Soils by Gerrard, John (Guilford Press 2014, http://www.guilfordpress.co.uk/books/details/9780415170055/)
- The Geographies of Air Transport by Goetz, Andrew R. and Lucy Budd (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409453314)
- Geographies of the Holocaust by Knowles, Anne Kelly and Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano (Indiana University Press 2014,http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807169)
- The Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Societies by Patterson, Mark W., Pullen, Nancy Hoalst (Spinger 2014,http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geography/book/978-94-007-7786-6)
- The Geography of the World Economy: 6th Edition by Knox, Paul, Agnew, John and Linda McCarthy (Routledge 2014,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781444184709/)
- Global Migration: The Basics by Hanlon, Bernadette and Vicino, Thomas J. (Routledge 2014,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415533867/)
- Global Perspectives on Gender and Space: Engaging Feminism and Development by Oberhauser, Ann M., Johnston-Anumonwo, Ibipo (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415657983/?utm_source=CMS&utm_medium=article%20&utm_campaign=SBU3_VJ_3RF_8cm_%201GEO_00000_RSHGseries%20)
- Humanitarian Crises and Migration: Causes Consequences and Responses by Martin, Susan F, Weerasinghe, Sanjula and Abbie Taylor (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415857321/)
- Inequality and the 1% by Dorling, Danny (Verso Books 2014, http://www.versobooks.com/books/1714-inequality-and-the-1)
- The Internet as Second Action Space by Kellerman, Aharon (Routledge 2014, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415858717/)
- Landscapes and Landforms of France by Fort, Monique, André, Marie-Françoise (Spinger 2014,http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+(default)/book/978-94-007-7021-8)
- The Occupy Movement Explained: From Corporate Control to Democracy by Smaligo, Nicholas (Open Court Publishing Company 2014,http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/occupy_movement.htm)
- On South Bank: The Production of Public Space by Jones, Alasdair J.H. (Ashgate 2014, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409440031)
- Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism by Quayson, Ato (Duke University Press 2014,https://www.dukeupress.edu/Oxford-Street-Accra/?viewby=title)
- The Paradoxes of Planning: A Psycho-Analytical Perspective by Westin, Sara (Ashgate 2014,http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409448037)
- The Political Ecology of the State: The Basis and the Evolution of Environmental Statehood by Augusto Rossotto Ioris, Antonio (Routledge 2014, http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415722193/)
- The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos by Piper, Karen (University of Minnesota 2014,http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-price-of-thirst)
- Remembering the Cultural Geographies of a Childhood Home by Jachimiak, Peter Hughes (Ashgate 2014,http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409471691)
- Rio de Janeiro: Urban Life through the Eyes of the City by Jaguaribe, Beatriz (Routledge 2013, http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415569316/)
- The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South by Parnell, Susan and Sophie Oldfield (Routledge 2014,http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415818650/)
- Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction by Gordillo, Gastón R. (Duke University Press 2014, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Rubble/)
- Soil Carbon by Hartemink, Alfred E., McSweeney, Kevin (Spinger 2014, http://www.springer.com/environment/soil+science/book/978-3-319-04083-7)
- The Soils of the Philippines by Carating, Rodelio B., Galanta, Raymundo G., Bacatio, Clarita D. (Spinger 2014,http://www.springer.com/environment/soil+science/book/978-94-017-8681-2)
- Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes by Eds. Charnley, Susan, Sheridan, Thomas E. and Gary P. Nabhan (University of Chicago Press 2014, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo18508638.html)
- Sustainable Development: An Appraisal from the Gulf Region by Sillitoe, Paul (Berghahn Books 2014,http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SillitoeSustainable)
- Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People by Brown, Michael (Harvard University Press 2014,http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674368071)
- The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility by Walks, Alan (Routledge 2014,http://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9780415706155/)
- Walking in the European City: Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography by Shortell, Timothy and Brown, Evrick (Ashgate 2014,http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472416162)
- When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont by Bennett, Evan P. (University Press of Florida 2014,http://upf.com/book.asp?id=BENNE001)
- Why America is Not a New Rome by Smil, Vaclav (MIT Press 2014, http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-america-not-new-rome)
- Writing Travel in Central Asian History by Green, Nile, ed (Indiana University Press 2014,http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807113)