GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

GARDENS OF NEW SPAIN: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America. By William W. Dunmire . CULTIVATED LANDSCAPES OF MIDDLE AMERICA ON THE EVE OF CONQUEST. By Thomas M. Whitmore and B. L. Turner II. EVERY FARM A FACTORY: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. By Deborah Fitzgerald . THE CHANGING SCALE OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. By John Fraser Hart .     

Geographical Reviews

HISTORICAL ATLASES: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870. By WALTER GOFFART. TOWARD A GEOGRAPHY OF ART. By THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN. THE COGNITION OF GEOGRAPHIC SPACE. By ROB KITCHIN and MARK BLADES. REPRESENTATIONS OF SPACE AND TIME. By DONNA J. PEUQUET. GIS AND PUBLIC HEALTH. By ELLEN K. CROMLEY and SARA L. MCLAFFERTY HUNTING THE 1918 FLU: One Scientist' Search for a Killer Virus. By KIRSTY DUNCAN. PRINCIPLES OF EMERGENCY PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. By DAVID ALEXANDER.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF BILL BROCKIE AND RAY HARGREAVES. Edited by Geoff Kearsley and Blair Fitzharris, Dunedin: Department of Geography, University of Otago, 1990, pp.360.
POPIULESIN BLONG HONIARA: OLKETA POPIULESIN BLONG 1986 SENSIS. By A. C. Walsh, Honiara: Department of Statistics, and Palmerston North: Board of Development Studies, Massey University
PRIESTS AND PROGRAMMERS: TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER IN THE ENGINEERED LANDSCAPE OF BALI. By Stephen Lansing
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN GEOGRAPHY. By Paul Mather
INTRODUCTION TO TOURISM IN AUSTRALIA: IMPACTS, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT. By C. M. Hall
TAMING THE GREAT SOUTH LAND: A HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF NATURE IN AUSTRALIA. By W. J. Lines
PEOPLE, PLACES, PATTERNS, PROCESSES: GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CANADIAN PAST. Edited by Graeme Wynn
STUDYING NEW ZEALAND HISTORY. By G. A. Wood, Dunedin
LOCAL HISTORY: A SHORT GUIDE TO RESEARCHING, WRITING AND PUBLISHING A LOCAL HISTORY. By Gavin McLean
THE NATIVE FORESTS OF NEW ZEALAND. By John Halkett     

REVIEWS: A Hundred Years After

Book reviewed in this article:
GEOLOGY OF NEW ZEALAND. By Ferdinand von Hochstetter, translated by C. A. Fleming.
GUTHRIE-SMITH OF TUTIRA. By A. E. Woodhouse.
WEST COAST REGION. National Resources Survey, Part 1. Compiled by the Town and Country
TUWHARETOA: THE HISTORY OF THE MAORI PEOPLE OF THE TAUPO DISTRICT. By John Te H. Grace.
THE GREAT HARBOUR OF TARA: TRADITIONAL MAORI PLACE-NAMES AND SITES OF WELLINGTON HARBOUR AND ENVIRONS. By G. Leslie Adkin.
NORTHERN APPROACHES. By C. W. S. Moore.
EARLY DAYS IN CENTRAL OTAGO. By Robert Gilkison.
HANDBOOK TO THE ARTHUR'S PASS NATIONAL PARK. Christchurch: Arthur's Pass National Park Board, 1958
MOUNT COOK NATIONAL PARK HANDBOOK. Edited by W. P. Packard.
WORLD GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Otis W. Freeman and John W. Morris.
THE CONURBATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN. By T. W. Freeman.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
HE KORERO PURAKAU MO NGA TAUNAHANA-HATANGA A NGA TUPUNA. PLACE NAMES OF THE ANCESTORS. A MAORI ORAL HISTORY ATLAS.
NGA TOHU PUMAHARA. THE SURVEY PEGS OF THE PAST. UNDERSTANDING MAORI PLACE NAMES.
BANKS PENINSULA: CRADLE OF CANTERBURY. By Gordon Ogilvie
THE ECONOMICS OF PART-TIME FARMING. By Ruth Gasson
FROM BUSH-BURN TO BUTTER. By Eric Warr
THE WAKE OF ERASMUS: SAINTS, SCHOLARS, AND STUDIA IN MEDIAEVAL NORDEN. By Anne Buttimer
THE SORROW AND THE PRIDE. NEW ZEALAND WAR MEMORIALS. By C. Maclean and J. Phillips
CITIES IN SPACE: CITIES AS PLACE. By D. T. Herbert and C. J. Thomas
TE IWI MAORI. A NEW ZEALAND POPULATION, PAST, PRESENT, AND PROJECTED. By I. Pool
Department of History Massey University
ANTARCTICA AND GLOBAL CLIMATIC CHANGE. Edited by Colin Harris and Bernard Stonehouse
FARM WOMEN IN PIAKO COUNTY. By M. Begg.
GEOGRAPHERS ON FIJI: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. By R. Chandra, Suva     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

PUTTING “AMERICA” ON THE MAP: The Story of the Most Important Graphic Document in the History of the United States. By Seymour I. Schwartz THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE: How the USA Shapes the World. By Stephen Burman BRITISH ATLANTIC, AMERICAN FRONTIER: Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America. By Stephen J. Hornsby A DESCRIPTION OF NEW NETHERLAND. By Adriaen van der Donck MIGRANTS TO THE METROPOLIS: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities. Edited by Marie Price and Lisa Benton ‐Short FRONTIERS OF FEMININITY: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth‐Century American West. By Karen M. Morin     

Geographical Reviews

THE RETREAT OF THE ELEPHANTS: An Environmental History of China. By Mark Elvin. HISTORIES OF THE BORNEO ENVIRONMENT: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity. Edited by Reed L. Wadley. MODERNIZING NATURE: Forestry and Imperial Eco‐Development 1800–1950. By S. Ravi Rajan. ROUTE 66: Iconography of the American Highway. By Arthur Krim. Edited by Denis Wood. CITY BOUNTIFUL: A Century of Community Gardening in America. By Laura J. Lawson. OVERTHROWING GEOGRAPHY: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880–1948. By Mark Le Vine. IN THE SPACE OF THEORY: Postfoundational Geographies of the Nation‐State. By Matthew Sparke. SPATIAL INEQUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT. Edited by Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables. DEMONIC GROUNDS: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. By Katherine Mc Kittrick. CITIES OF THE WORLD: A History in Maps. By Peter Whitfield.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: ATLAS DE MAPAS HISTÓRICOS DE HONDURAS/HONDURAS, AN ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS. By William Van Davidson. CITIES OF EUROPE: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements, and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion. Edited by Yuri Kazepov. THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA. By Walter D. Mignolo. MAGNOLIAS WITHOUT MOONLIGHT: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration. By Sheldon Hackney. BORDER LANDSCAPES: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand. By Janet C. Sturgeon. SECOND GROWTH: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia. By Sean Markey, John T. Pierce, Kelly Vodden, and Mark Roseland. LIVING WITH THE CHANGING CALIFORNIA COAST. By Gary Griggs, Kiki Patsch, and Lauret Savoy. CHICAGO: A Geography of the City and Its Region. By John C. Hudson.     

Geographical Reviews

THE MIDDLE EAST IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Power, Politics and Ideology. By FRED HALLIDAY. GEOPOLITICS OF THE WORLD SYSTEM. By SAUL BERNARD COHEN. HEGEMONY: The New Shape of Global Power. By JOHN AGNEW. GEOGRAPHIES OF MUSLIM WOMEN: Gender, Religion, and Space. Edited by GHAZI‐WALID FALAH and CAROLINE NAGEL.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

THE LIE OF THE LAND: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. By Don Mitchell . LOST LANDSCAPES AND FAILED ECONOMIES: The Search for a Value of Place. By Thomas Michael Power . THE ORGANIC MACHINE: The Remaking of the Columbia River. By Richard White . ENTITLEMENTS TO NATURAL RESOURCES: Contours of Political Environmental Geography. By Ton Dietz . ECOLOGY AND EQUITY: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India. BY Madhav Gadgil and Ramchandra Guha . NEPAL: A Himalayan Kingdom in Transition. By Pradyumna P. Karan and Hiroshi Ishii . ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS: Ideas, Politics and Planning. By J. Douglas Porteous . PICTURING KNOWLEDGE: Historical and Philosophical Problems Concerning the Use of Art in Science. Edited by Brian S. Baigrie . TAKING MEASURES ACROSS THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. By James Corner and Alex S. Mac Lean . SPACES OF IDENTITY: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries. By David Morley and Kevin Robins TREE MANAGEMENT IN FARMER STRATEGIES: Responses to Agricultural Intensification. Edited by J. E. Michael Arnold and Peter A. Dewees . THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1993: Causes, Impacts, and Responses. Edited by Stanley A. Chagnon . DECIDING TO BE LEGAL: A Maya Community in Houston. By Jacqueline Maria Hagan . THE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA. Edited by W. M. Adams , A. S. Goudie , and A. R. Orme . THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM, GOMORRAH, AND JERICHO: Geological, Climatological, and Archaeological Background. By David Neev and K. O. Emery . THE FROZEN ECHO: Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca. a.d. 1000–1500. By Kirsten A. Seaver . OLIVES: The Life and Lore of the Noble Fruit. By Mort Rosenblum .     

Geographical Reviews

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT PLAINS. Edited by DAVID J. WISHART. BELIEVING IN PLACE: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin. By RICHARD V. FRANCAVIGLIA. TRANSFORMATION OF THE MORMON CULTURE REGION. By ETHAN R. YORGASON. HOMELANDS: A Geography of Culture and Place across America. Edited by RICHARD L. NOSTRAND and LAWRENCE E. ESTAVILLE. TEJANO SOUTH TEXAS: A Mexican American Cultural Province. By DANIEL D. ARREOLA. COLONIALISM AND LANDSCAPE: Postcolonial Theory and Applications. By ANDREW SLUYTER THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION. By DAVID R. MEYER     

Geographical Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: THOREAU's COUNTRY: Journey through a Transformed Landscape. By David R. Foster . VISIONS OF PARADISE: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy. By John Warfield Simpson . CREATING COLORADO: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860–1940. By William Wyckoff . THE DAWN OF CONSERVATION DIPLOMACY: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey . ORGANIZING THE LANDSCAPE: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism. Edited by Andrew Herod GREEN LAND, BROWN LAND, BLACK LAND: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800–1990. By James C. Mc Cann . RED CAPITALISM IN SOUTH CHINA: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta. By George C. S. Lin . PILLAR OF SAND: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? By Sandra Postel. xv THE CHACO MERIDIAN: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest. By Stephen H. Lekson .     

Geographical Reviews

BRAZIL THROUGH THE EYES OF WILLIAM JAMES: Letters, Diaries, and Drawings THE COLONIAL SPANISH‐AMERICAN CITY: Urban Life in the Age of Atlantic Capitalism. By Jay Kinsbruner GREAT POWERS AND GEOPOLITICAL CHANGE. By Jakub J. Grygiel CITY TREES: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century. By Henry W. Lawrence AN ALLIANCE OF WOMEN: Immigration and the Politics of Race. By Heather Merrill FIELD METHODS IN REMOTE SENSING. By Roger M. McCoy     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. By Lawrence Buell . HUMAN IMPACT ON THE EARTH. By William B. Meyer . ECOSYSTEM GEOGRAPHY. By Robert G. Bailey ; illustrated by Lev Ropes LAND USE AND SOCIETY: Geography, Law, and Public Policy. By Rutherford H. Platt . CAUGHT IN THE NET: The Conflict between Shrimpers and Conservationists. By Anthony V. Margavio and Craig J. Forsyth . BRING BACK THE BUFFALO! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains. By Ernest Callenbach . GUIDE TO KANSAS ARCHITECTURE. By David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich . RELIGION AND WINE: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States. By Robert C. Fuller . THE PROMISE OF PARADISE: Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950. By Hubert B. Stroud . ERRANT JOURNEYS: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age. By David Zurick . THE DUST ROSE LIKE SMOKE: The Subjugation of the Zulu and Sioux. By James O. Gump . THE PEOPLING OF AFRICA: A Geographic Interpretation. By James L. Newman . THE MAGIC MOUNTAINS: Hill Stations and the British Raj. By Dane Kennedy . THE GENIUS OF C. WARREN THORNTHWAITE, CLIMATOLOGIST-GEOGRAPHER. By John R. Mather and Marie Sanderson .     

Geographical Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: ABYSMAL: A Critique of Cartographic Reason. By Gunnar Olsson . IN SEARCH OF MAYA SEA TRADERS. By Heather McKillop . ISLANDS IN A FAR SEA: The Fate of Nature in Hawai'i. By John L. Culliney . THE GHOST MAP: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic–And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. By Steven Johnson . THE MIDWESTERN PASTORAL: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland. By William Barillas . THE RIBBON OF GREEN: Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Southwestern United States. By Robert H. Webb , Stanley A. Leake , and Raymond M. Turner .     

MAPPING WISCONSIN

WISCONSIN'S PAST AND PRESENT: A Historical Atlas. By The Wisconsin Cartographers ' Guild , xv and 125 pp.; maps, ills. THE ATLAS OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN WISCONSIN. By Kazimierz J. Zaniewski and Carol J. Rosen CULTURAL MAP OF WISCONSIN: A Cartographic Portrait of the State. By David Woodward , Robert C. Ostergren , Onno Brouwer , Steven Hoelscher , and Joshua Hane .     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
SIR JOSEPH BANKS IN NEW ZEALAND, FROM HIS JOURNAL. Edited by W. P. Morrell.
A HISTORY OF CANTERBURY, Volume I: To 1854. Edited by James Hight and C. R. Straubel.
A S urveyor on the W estland G oldeields
MY DEAR BANNIE: Gerhard Mueller's Letters from The West Coast 1865–6. Edited by M. V. Mueller.
M id -T wentieth C entury N ew Z ealand : Historian'S V iewpoint THIS NEW ZEALAND. By F. L. W. Wood.
M id -T wentieth C entury N ew Z ealand : GEOGRAPHERS VIEWPOINT
NEW ZEALAND: A REGIONAL VIEW. By K. B. Cumberland and J. W. Fox.
O ne H undred Y ears in H awkes B ay
THE STORY OF HAWKES BAY. By A. H. Reed.
M an and L and in the W estern P acific
L and and P eople in H ong K ong
LAND USE IN HONG KONG AND THE NEW TERRITORIES. By T. R. Tregear.
THE PATTERN OF ASIA. Edited by Norton Ginsburg.
AN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF EAST PAKISTAN. By Nafis Ahmad.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: THE EVOLUTION OF POLYNESIAN CHIEFDOMS. Patrick Vinton Kirch. AN INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY OF JAPAN. Edited by K. Murata. THE NATURE OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By K. J. Gregory, Edward Arnold. SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. Edited by J. Eyles. SILCON LANDSCAPES. Edited by P. Hall and A. Markusen. Allen and Unwin. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS! A READER. Edited by D. Massey and J. Allen. REGIONS IN QUESTION: SPACE, DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND REGIONAL POLICY, by C. Gore, Methuen. A GEOGRAPHICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR AMERICAN LIBRARIES. Edited by Chauncy D. Harris. DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS, RED OR GREEN ALTERNATIVES? By Michael Redclift, Methuen THE MAKING OF NEW ZEALAND: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY. By G. R. Hawke. GEOMORPHOLOGY. By R. J. Chorley, S. A. Schumm and D. E. Sugden.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
NEW ZEALAND IN COLOUR. Photographs by Kenneth and Jean Bigwood; Text by James K. Baxter.
THE EARLY JOURNALS OF HENRY WILLIAMS 1826–40. Edited by Lawrence M. Rogers.z
SHEEP: PART II—SHEEPFARMING DEVELOPMENT AND SHEEP-BREEDS IN NEW ZEALAND. By P. G. Stevens.
HOW PEOPLE LIVE IN ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. By R. Gerard Ward.
LATE-PLEISTOCENE ENVIRONMENTS OF NORTH PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA. By C.J. Heusser.
MAN'S ENVIRONMENTS. By W. G. East and G. M. Barrett.
ASIA. By R. R. Rawson and W. G. East.
THE BRITISH ISLES. By J. A. Morris.     

Geographical Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: YOUR PRIVATE SKY: R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science. Edited by Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein . Translated by Steven Lindberg and Julia Thorson . PRINCE HENRY ‘THE NAVIGATOR’: A Life. By Peter Russell SPEAKING THROUGH THE ASPENS: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada. By J. Mallea ‐Olaetxe . PETROLIA: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom. By Brian Black CRAFTING THE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF FRENCH CHOCOLATE. By Susan J. Terrio . VIRGINIA IN MAPS: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development. Edited by Richard W. Stephenson and Marianne M. Mc Kee . THE ATLAS OF EXPERIENCE. By Louise van Swaaij and Jean Klare .