New Books in Geography
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Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads...
Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire....
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Gregory H. Wolf, "Wrigley Field: The Friendly C...
Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark...
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Matthew Edney, "Cartography: The Ideal and Its ...
Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray...
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Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuan...
Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...
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Safet HadžiMuhamedović, "Waiting for Elijah: Ti...
HadžiMuhamedović takes readers through intimate encounters and syncretic moments as he and his interlocutors wait for Elijah’s Day...
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Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr, "The Carpetbagg...
For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...
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David Bissell, "Transit Life: How Commuting Is ...
What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become?
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Max Edelson, "The New Map of Empire: How Britai...
Edelson shows how the Crown and the Board of Trade initiated the mapping of every new corner of Britain’s American dominions – places that were also the ancestral homes of Native Americans and the site of emerging settler republics...
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Christof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Op...
"Trains, Buses, People' is a fascinating book about “How To” develop better transportation modes for US cities and urban...
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E. MacDonald et al., "Time and a Place: An Envi...
With its long and well-documented history, Prince Edward Island makes a compelling case study for thousands of years of human interaction with a specific ecosystem...
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Kristin L. Hoganson, "The Heartland: An America...
The Heartland makes a strong case for the Midwest not as a provincial, isolated, region but rather as a place defined by global connections, diasporas, and a wide array of cultures...
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Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Historie...
What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon?
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Robert A. Voeks, "The Ethnobotany of Eden: Reth...
Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil..
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Kevin T. Smiley, "Market Cities, People Cities:...
Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city?
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
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Natalie Koch, "Critical Geographies of Sport: S...
In Critical geographies, Koch joins other scholars to address a wide range of sports issues, including the demolition of South Korea’s Dongdaemun baseball stadium, professional wrestling in the territorial era in the United States, and the identity politics of the Gaelic Athletic Association...
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Thomas F. Gieryn, "Truth-Spots: How Places Make...
During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots...
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Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map...
The 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus has long been deemed “an essentially unstudiable object"...
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Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovere...
The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...
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Sun-Young Park, "Ideals of the Body: Architectu...
We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century, but little scholarship has seized on its precursors...
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Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vita...
The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, is deeply embedded in social, moral, and political contexts...
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Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotec...
While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century...
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Christian B. Long, "The Imaginary Geography of ...
While most every live-action film takes place in a specific location, the role of these places has not often been studied...
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
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D.A. Silver and T.N. Clark, "Scenescapes: How Q...
I don’t mean to make a scene, but please open your eyes and look around. There are complex scenes everywhere and we have all served witness to them...
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