New Books: November 2015
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.
November, 2015
- Advanced Land-use Analysis for Regional Geodesign: Using LUCISplus by Paul D. Zwick, Iris E. Patten, and Abdulnaser Arafat (ESRI Press 2015, http://store.esri.com/esri/showdetl.cfm?SID=2&Product_ID=1470&Category_ID=54)
- The Black Christ of Esquipulas: Religion and Identity in Guatemala by Douglass Sullivan-González (University of Nebraska Press 2016, http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Black-Christ-of-Esquipulas,676377.aspx)
- A Call for Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson by Helen Hunt Jackson (University of Oklahoma Press 2015, http://www.oupress.com/ECommerce/Book/Detail/2010/a%20call%20for%20reform)
- Cape Cod: An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem by John T. Cumbler (University of Massachusetts Press 2015, http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/cape-cod)
- Capitalism: The Basics by David Coates (Routledge 2015, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780415870917/)
- Citizen, Student, Soldier Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream by Gina M. Perez (NYU Press 2015, http://nyupress.org/books/9781479807802/)
- Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon by Jeremy M. Campbell (University of Washington Press 2015, https://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/CAMCON.html)
- Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Urban Space in Tanzania by Ned Berz (University of Hawai’i Press 2015, http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9491-9780824851552.aspx)
- Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe by Michael Löwy (Haymarket Books 2015, http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Ecosocialism)
- Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future by Susan Parham (Bloomsbury 2015, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/food-and-urbanism-9780857854520/)
- The Grid and The River: Philadelphia’s Green Places 1682-1876 by Elizabeth Milroy (Penn State University Press 2016)
- A History of Science in World Cultures: Voices of Knowledge by Scott L. Montgomery and Alok Kumar (Routledge 2015, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780415639842/)
- Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South by O’Brien, William E. (University of Massachusetts Press 2015, https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/landscapes-exclusion)
- Latin American History Goes to the Movies: Understanding Latin America’s Past through Film by Stewart Brewer (Routledge 2015, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9780415873505/)
- Making Disasters: Climate Change, Neoliberal Governance, and Livelihood Insecurity on the Mongolian Steppe by Craig R. Janes, Oyuntsetseg Chuluundorj (University of New Mexico Press 2016, http://www.unmpress.com/books.php?ID=20000000007804&Page=book)
- Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home by Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Making-Freedom)
- Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS: A Workbook by Kathryn Keranen and Robert Kolvoord (ESRI Press 2015, http://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&websiteid=203&moduleid=0)
- Mexico’s Uneven Development: The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality by Oscar J. Martinez (Routledge 2016, http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138840232/)
- Narrating the City: Histories, Space and the Everyday by Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Matthew P. Berg, and Anastasia Christou (Berghahn Books 2015, http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=Fischer-NebmaierNarrating)
- Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai by Lisa Björkman (Duke University Press 2015, https://www.dukeupress.edu/Pipe-Politics-Contested-Waters)
- The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft by Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri eds. (Brookings Institution Press 2015, http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2015/the-power-of-the-past)
- Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday by Heather Merrill and Lisa M. Hoffman (eds.) (University of Georgia Press 2015, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/spaces_of_danger)
- Spell of the Urubamba: Anthropogeographical Essays on an Andean Valley in Space and Time by Gade, Daniel W. (Springer 2016, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319208480#aboutBook)
- Violence in Capitalism: Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility by James A. Tyner (University of Nebraska Press 2015, https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Violence-in-Capitalism,676375.aspx)
- Yosemite by Kate N. Ogden (Reaktion Books 2015, http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781780235271#!/)