New Books in Geography
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Phil Christman, "Midwest Futures" (Belt Publish...
What does the future hold for the Midwest?
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Julian Bolleter, "Desert Paradises: Surveying t...
Bolleter explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy...
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Germaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media ...
Halegoua rethinks everyday interactions that humans have with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world...
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Michael F. Robinson, "The Coldest Crucible: Arc...
The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination...
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Christian J. Koot, "A Biography of a Map in Mot...
This is a map that proclaims empire: from the prominent royal arms, to the ships riding at anchor out in what is labelled the ‘North Sea’...
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Penny Sinanoglou, "Partitioning Palestine: Brit...
Sinanoglou asks what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact...
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Jeremy Black, "Geographies of an Imperial Power...
A great deal of recent discussion among humanities scholars has focused on the possibility or even necessity of “de-colonising the curriculum.” But what does this project mean?
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Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korea...
Park focuses on the movement of Koreans around the point where China, Russia and Korea converged from the mid-19th century onwards...
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Susan Schulten, "A History of American in 100 M...
Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age...
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Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta ...
Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
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Emanuela Grama, "Socialist Heritage: The Politi...
Grama explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the legacy of that project...
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Penelope Plaza Azuaje, “Culture as Renewable Oi...
How do states use cultural policy?
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R. Cervero, E. Guerra, S. Al, "Beyond Mobility:...
"Beyond Mobility" is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the creation of great places...
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Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigatin...
Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land...
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Serin D. Houston, "Imagining Seattle: Social Va...
Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
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David Biggs, "Footprints of War: Militarized La...
By now we all know that Vietnam is a country, not a war. But how have decades, and even centuries, of war impacted the land of this southeast Asian nation?
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, "No Path Home: Humanitar...
"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.
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Humphrey Davies and Lesley Lababid, "A Field Gu...
Guides have been written to the city of Cairo for generations...
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Bathsheba Demuth, "Floating Coast: An Environme...
Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...
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Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation:...
Watt precisely narrates a rich case study of the sweeping lands and waters surrounding Point Reyes, an hour north of San Francisco in Marin County,..
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Lina del Castillo, "Crafting a Republic for the...
Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia...
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