New Books: September 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 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.
September 2016
- Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture by Michael B. Collins (University of California Press 2013)
- American Farms, American Food: A Geography of Agriculture and Food Production in the United States by John C. Hudson and Christopher R. Laingen (Lexington Books 2016)
- Atlas of the 2012 Elections by J. Clark Archer, Fiona Davidson Erin H. Fouberg, Kenneth C. Martis, Richard L. Morril, Fred M. Shelley, Robert H. Watrel and Gerald R. Webster (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2015)
- Carbon Capitalism: Energy, Social Reproduction and World Order by Tim Di Muzio (Rowman and Littlefield 2015)
- Chinese History in Geographical Perspective by Yongtao Du and Jeff Kyong-McClain (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2015)
- ‘City of the Future’: Built Space, Modernity and Urban Chance in Astana by Matesz Laszczkowski (Berghahn Books 2016)
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Classical Geopolitics: A New Analytical Model by Phil Kelly (Stanford University Press 2016)
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Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration: Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon By Stephen G Perz (Rowman & Littlefield 2016)
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The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile by Raymond B. Craib (Oxford University Press 2016)
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The Demon of Geopolitics: How Karl Haushofer “educated” Hitler and Hess by Holger H. Herwig (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
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Designing Gotham: West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York 1817-1898 by John Scott Logel (LSU Press 2016)
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Engines of Empire Steamships and the Victorian Imagination by Douglas R. Burgess JR. (Stanford University Press 2016)
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Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project by Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Rowman and Littlefield 2014)
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Eurasia 2.0: Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media by Mikhail Suslov and Mark Bassin (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
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The First World Oil War by Timothy C. Winegard (University of Toronto Press 2016)
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Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790-1860 by Gergely Baics (Princeton University Press 2016)
- Geopolitical Constructs: The Mulberry Harbours, World War Two, and the Making of a Militarized Trans-Atlantic by Colin Flint (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
- Global Cinematic Cities: New Landscapes of Film and Media Edited by Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb (Columbia University Press 2016)
- Global Foodscapes: Oppression and resistance in the life of food by Alistair Fraser (Routledge 2017)
- Global Issues in the Context of Space by Jean Kachiga (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
- Global Migration: Patterns, Processes, and Politics by Elizabeth Maroudi and Caroline Nagel (Routledge 2016)
- The Handbook of Food and Anthropology by Jakob A. Klein, James L. Watson (eds.) (Bloomsbury 2016)
- The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe: Detention, Deportation, Drowning by Yolande Jansen, Robin Celikates, and Joost de Bloois (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2015)
- Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation by Brent McCusker, William G. Moseley, and Maano Ramutsindela (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
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Landscape and Politics in the Ancient Andes: Biographies of Place at Khonkho Wankane by Scott C. Smith (University of New Mexico Press 2016)
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Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India by Llerena Guiu Searle (The University of Chicago Press 2016)
- Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space by Nicolas Howe (University of Chicago Press 2016)
- Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops by Jessica Joyce Christie (Rowman and Littlefield 2015)
- Migration Borders Freedom by Harald Bauder (Routledge 2017)
- The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space by Lisa Benton-Short (University of Toronto Press 2016)
- National Park Roads: A Legacy in the American Landscape by Timothy Davis (University of Virginia Press 2016)
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New Regionalism: The Art of Bryan Haynes by Bryan Dawes Haynes and Karen Glines (University of Missouri Press 2016)
- Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds by Lisa Messeri (Duke University Press 2016)
- The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception by Kevin R. Cox (Syracuse University Press 2016)
- Portrait of Route 66 Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives by T. Lindsay Baker (University of Oklahoma Press 2016)
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall (Simon & Schuster 2015)
- The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment by Jesse Lecavalier (University of Minnesota Press 2016)
- Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge by Martin Hawkins (Louisiana State University Press 2016)
- Spatial Health Inequalities: Adapting GIS Tools and Data Analysis by Esra Ozdenerol (CRC Press 2016)
- Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place by Setha Low (Routledge 2017)
- Surveying the Early Republic: The Journal of Andrew Elliott, U.S. Boundary Commissioner in the Old Southwest 1796-1800 by Andrew Ellicott (ed.) (Louisiana State University Press 2016)
- Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago by Colin Fisher (University of North Carolina Press 2015)
- What Makes a Great City by Alexander Garvin (Island Press 2016)