New Books in Geography — March 2016
The AAG Review of Books office has released the list of the books received during the month of March. Following are the references:
March 2016
- A Fairytale in Question: Historical Interactions Between Humans and Wolves by Patrick Masius and Jana Sprenger (eds.) (The White Horse Press 2015)
- Africans in Global Migration Searching for Promised Lands by John A. Joseph Takougang and Thomas Owusu (eds.) (Lexington Books 2012)
- Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World by Randy J. Sparks (Harvard University Press 2016)
- Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600–2000 by George Reid Andrews (Harvard University Press 2016)
- America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions: Surviving the 21st Century Megatrends by John W. Day and Charles Hall (Springer 2016)
- America’s National Park System: The Critical Documents by Lary M. Dilsaver (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
- American Indians and National Forests by Theodore Catton (University of Arizona Press 2016)
- Archaeology’s Visual Culture: Digging and Desire by Roger Balm (Routledge 2016)
- Bread Wine Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love by Simeran Sethi (Harper Collins Publishers: HarperWave 2015)
- Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape by Francesca Russello Ammon (Yale University Press 2016)
- California: A Fire Survey by Stephen J. Pyne (University of Arizona Press 2016)
- A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic by Kevin Coleman (University of Texas Press 2016)
- Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps by Karen Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas (eds.) (University of Chicago Press 2016)
- City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston by Anothony Bak Buccitelli (University of Wisconsin Press 2016)
- Conventional Wisdom: The Alternate Article V Mechanism for Proposing Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by John R. Vile (University of Georgia Press 2016)
- DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City Without Services by Kimberley Kinder (University of Minnesota Press 2016)
- Drawn to Landscape: The Pioneering Work of J.B. Jackson by Janet Mendelsohn and Christopher Wilson (eds.) (University of Virginia Press 2015)
- Ecuador’s Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters by Tammy L. Lewis (MIT Press 2016)
- The Environment in American History: Nature and the Formation of the United States by Jeff Crane (Routledge 2015)
- Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity by Gary Paul Nabhan (University of Arizona Press 2016)
- Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945 by Daniel F. Doeppers (University of Wisconsin Press 2015)
- Florida: A Fire Survey by Stephen J. Pyne (University of Arizona Press 2016)
- Fluid Frontiers: New Currents in Marine Environmental History by John Gillis and Franziska Torma (eds.) (The White Horse Press 2015)
- Forests are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietmam by Pamela D. McElwee (University of Washington Press 2016)
- The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 by J. R. McNeill, Peter Engelke (Harvard University Press 2016)
- How Myth Became History: Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands by John Emory Dean (University of Arizona Press 2016)
- Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives by Jane Stadler, Peta Mitchell, and Stephen Carleton (Indiana University Press 2016)
- Indian river Lagoon: An Environmental History by Nathaniel Osborn (University Press of Florida 2016)
- International Migrants in Japan: Contributions in an Era of Population Decline by Yoshitaka Ishikawa (ed.) (Trans Pacific Press 2015)
- The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M. Hersh (Verso Books 2016)
- The Limitations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow (Verso Books 2016)
- Louis C.K. and Philosophy: You Don’t Get to be Bored by Mark Ralkowski (ed.) (Open Court Publishing Company 2016)
- Mean Streets: Migration, xenophobia and Informality in South Africa by Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, and Caroline Skinner (eds.) (IDRC 2015)
- Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops by Jessica Joyce Christie (Rowman and Littlefield 2015)
- Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and Security State by Robert P. Marez (University of Minnesota Press 2016)
- Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos (eds.) (University of Calgary Press 2015)
- The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon by Daniel Patterson (ed.) (University of Nebraska Press 2016)
- Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles by Mohammad Abdul Qadeer (University of Toronto Press 2016)
- Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu (Ohio State University Press 2016)
- New Earth Politics: Essays from the Anthropocene by Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah (eds.) (MIT Press 2016)
- The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings by Lindsay Jones and Richard D. Shiels (eds.) (University of Virginia Press 2015)
- Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography by Edward L. Jackiewicz and Fernando J. Bosco (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)
- Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities by Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, and Barbara Hahn (John Hopkins University Press 2016)
- Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods by Rachel A. Woldoff, Lisa M. Morrison, and Michael R. Glass (NYU Press 2016)
- Religion and Space: Competition, Conflict and Violence in the Contemporary World by Lily Kong and Orlando Woods (Bloomsbury Publishing 2016)
- Rio de Janeiro: Urban Life through the Eyes of the City by Beatriz Jaguaribe (Routledge 2014)
- Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism by Benjamin Gardner (University of Georgia Press 2016)
- Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory as the India-Bangladesh Border by Jason Cons (University of Washington Press 2016)
- Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin by Eliot M. Tretter (University of Georgia Press 2015)
- Smokefree: A Social, Moral and Political Atmosphere by Simone Dennis (Bloomsbury 2016)
- Smuggling: Seven Centuries of Contraband by Simon Harvey (Reaktion Books 2016)
- Transforming the Fisheries: Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons by Patrick Bresnihan (University of Nebraska Press 2016)
- Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Migration Between Moldova and Istanbul by Leyla J. Keough (Indiana University Press 2015)
- A World to Live In: An Ecologist’s Vision for a Plundered Planet by George M. Woodwell (MIT Press 2016)