GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

THE COUNTRY IN THE CITY: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. By Richard Walker RETURN TO THE CENTER: Culture, Public Space, and City Building in a Global Era. By Lawrence A. Herzog GAINING GROUND: A HISTORY OF LANDMAKING IN BOSTON. By Nancy S. Seasholes THE FUTURE CITY ON THE INLAND SEA: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior. By Eric D. Olmanson ATLANTIC REVERBERATIONS: French Representations of an American Presidential Election. By Paul C. Adams     

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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     

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 .     

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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

BOUNDARIES OF FAITH: Geographical Perspectives on Religious Fundamentalism. By Roger W. Stump . THE POWER OF GOLD: The History of an Obsession. By Peter L. Bernstein BETRAYAL OF TRUST: The Collapse of Global Public Health. By Laurie Garrett . WOMEN'S WORK? American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920. By Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo . GREAT FEUDS IN SCIENCE: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. By Hal Hellman .     

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 .     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

LIVING WITH NATURE'S EXTREMES: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White. By Robert E. Hinshaw . MANAGING WATER RESOURCES: Past and Present. Edited by Julie Trottier and Paul Slack . ENVIRONMENTALITY: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. By Arun Agrawal . ILLUSTRATED ATLAS OF THE HIMALAYA. By David Zurick and Julsun Pacheco , with Basanta Shrestha and Birendra Bajracharya . WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Edited by Pnina Motzafi ‐Haller . NATURE AND THE CITY: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles. By Gene Desfor and Roger Keil . THE STEAMER PARISH: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By Charles M. Good Jr. WAR EPIDEMICS: An Historical Geography of Infectious Diseases in Military Conflict and Civil Strife, 1850–2000. By M. A. Smallman ‐Raynor and A. D. Cliff     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

FEEDING THE WORLD: A Challenge for the Twenty‐First Century. By Vaclav Smil . IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT: A Reflection on Nepal. By Nanda R. Shrestha . THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. By Blake Gumprecht . THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth. By Blake Gumprecht . CAMPANHA GAÚCHA: A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850–1920. THE SANITARY CITY: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. By Martin V. Melosi . VULCAN'S FURY: Man Against the Volcano. By Alwyn Scarth . THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST: Living with the Shores of Oregon and Washington. By Paul D. Komar .     

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: SEEING THROUGH MAPS: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View. By Ward L. Kaiser and Denis Wood . LANDSCAPE, NATURE, AND THE BODY POLITIC: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. By Kenneth Olwig . OPENING THE OZARKS: A Historical Geography of Missouri's Ste. Genevieve District, 1760–1830. By Walter A. Schroeder . WETLANDS DRAINAGE, RIVER MODIFICATION, AND SECTORAL CONFLICT IN THE LOWER ILLINOIS VALLEY, 1890–1930. By John Thompson . ON THE BORDER: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Edited by Char Miller . WESTERN PLACES, AMERICAN MYTHS: How We Think about the West. Edited by Gary J. Hausladen . RANCHING WEST OF THE 100^TM MERIDIAN: Culture, Ecology, and Economics. Edited by Richard L. Knight , Wendell C. Gilgert , and Ed Marston .     

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

Book reviewed in this article: THE SHAPING OF AMERICA: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. 4: Global America , 1915–2000. By D. W. Meinig THE PLANTING OF NEW VIRGINIA: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By Warren R. Hofstra CUMBERLAND ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE: A History of Conservation Conflict. By Lary M. Dilsaver AN UNNATURAL METROPOLIS: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. By Craig E. Colten BLACK ROCK. By Peter Goin and Paul F. Starrs RAMONA MEMORIES: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. By Dydia De Lyser LANDSCAPES IN MUSIC: Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music. By David B. Knight     

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Book reviewed in this article:
GREAT DAYS IN NEW ZEALAND EXPLORATION: THE BUSH AND THE RAIN. By John Pascoe.
A SURVEY OF NEW ZEALAND POPULATION: An Analysis of Past Trends and an Estimate of Future Growth. Compiled by the Town and Country Planning Branch, Ministry of Works.
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Essays presented to H. D. Skinner. Edited by J. D. Freeman and W. R. Geddes.
OXFORD ATLAS FOR NEW ZEALAND—STUDENTS' EDITION. Advisory Editor, R. G. Lister. London and Wellington
GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF ALAN G. OGILVIE. Edited by R. Miller and J. Wreford Watson.
THE ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY. By T. L. Hills.
AFRICA: ITS PEOPLE AND THEIR CULTURE HISTORY. By G. P. Murdock.
BRITISH WEATHER IN MAPS. By J. A. Taylor and R. A. Yates.     

Geographical Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: NEW YORK, CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES: America's Global Cities. By Janet L. Abu -Lughod . AN ETHNIC GEOGRAPHY OF EARLY UTICA, NEW YORK: Time, Space, and Community. By Allen G. Noble . A GOLDEN STATE: Mining and Economic Development in Gold-Rush California. Edited by James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi . INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: Territory, Sovereignty, and Socioeconomic Change. By Klaus Frantz . THE INDIAN SOUTHWEST, 1580–1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention. By Gary Clayton Anderson THE GREEN REPUBLIC: A Conservation History of Costa Rica. By Sterling Evans . NAFANUA: Saving the Samoan Rain Forest. By Paul Alan Cox . SACRIFICING THE FOREST: Environmental and Social Struggles in Chiapas. By Karen L. O'Brien . TUTIRA: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station. By Herbert Guthrie -Smith .     

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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.     

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HERITAGE DESTROYED. THE CRISIS IN SCENERY PRESERVATION IN NEW ZEALAND. By J. T. Salmon.
SAMUEL BUTLER AT MESOPOTAMIA. By P. B. Maling.
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC. By K. W. Robinson.
SOCIAL STUDIES IN GEOGRAPHY, 1: THE PACIFIC WORLD. By G. Jobberns and J. A. Ross.
NORTH ENGLAND. By A. E. Smailes.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE JUNE 1960: BACKGROUND PAPERS.
ATLAS OF THE ARAB WORLD AND THE MIDDLE EAST. Introduction by C. F. Buckingham.
THE EARTH'S PROBLEM CLIMATES. By Glenn T. Trewartha.     

Geographical Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: THE SHAPING OF AMERICA: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. 3: TRANSCONTINENTAL AMERICA, 1850–1915. By D. W. Meinig . SIERRA CROSSING: First Roads to California. By Thomas Frederick Howard . BATTLING THE ELEMENTS: Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War. By Harold A. Winters , with Gerald E. Galloway Jr ., William J. Reynolds , and David W. Rhyne . ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN: Barbados and the Windwards in the Late 1800s. By Bonham C. Richardson THIRD WORLD POLITICAL ECOLOGY. By Raymond L. Bryant and Sinéad Bailey HERITAGE ON STAGE: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland. By Steven D. Hoelscher .     

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

WHERE THERE ARE MOUNTAINS: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians. By Donald Edward Davis. THE MONTEREY BAY SHORELINE GUIDE. By Jerry Emory PHILOSOPHY AND GEOGRAPHY III: Philosophies of Place. Edited by Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith. DELTA SUGAR: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape. By John B. Rehder. SHADOWS IN THE FOREST: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia. THE RADIANCE OF FRANCE: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II. By Gabrielle Hecht. SECURE FROM RASH ASSAULT: Sustaining the Victorian Environment. By James Winter . THE WILD AND THE DOMESTIC: Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature. By Barney Nelson     

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.