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 .     

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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 .     

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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 .     

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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     

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FINDING THE WALLS OF TROY: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik. By Susan Heuck Allen . THE WORLD OF ANDRÉ LE NÔTRE. By Thierry Mariage . Translated by Graham Larkin . “WHAT NATURE SUFFERS TO GROE”: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680–1920. By Mart A. Stewart . SURVEYING THE RECORD: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. Edited by Edward C. Carter II. BEYOND THE NEON LIGHTS: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. By Hanchao Lu . LIVING HERITAGE: Vernacular Environment in China. Edited by Kai ‐Yin FROM AZTEC TO HIGH TECH: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico‐United States Border. By Lawrence A. Herzog . SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: An Environmental History of the Twentieth‐Century World. By J. R. McNeill .     

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JUSTICE, NATURE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF DIFFERENCE. By David Harvey POSSESSED BY THE PAST: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. By David Lowenthal . WILDERNESS AND THE CHANGING AMERICAN WEST. By Gundars Rudzitis . THE SPIRIT OF YELLOWSTONE: The Cultural Evolution of a National Park. By Judith L. Meyer STATE TRUST LANDS: History, Management, and Sustainable Use. By Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax HUMANATURE. By Peter Goin . HOMELAND TO HINTERLAND: The Changing World of the Red River Métis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gerhard J. Ens . CHANGING FORTUNES: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes. By Karl S. Zimmerer . KICKING OFF THE BOOTSTRAPS: Environment, Development, and Community Power in Puerto Rico. By Déborah Berman Santana . CENTRAL EUROPE: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. By Lonnie R. Johnson . URBAN REGIMES AND STRATEGIES: Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels. By Alex G. Papadopoulos . LIBERATION ECOLOGIES: Environment, Development, Social Movements. Edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts . COLONIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies, 1850–1960. By Michael Havinden and David Meredith . SETTLEMENT ECOLOGY: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. By Glenn Davis Stone . THE WORK IN THE WORLD: Geographical Practice and the Written Word. By Michael R. Curry .     

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CALVINISTS INCORPORATED: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. By Anne Kelly Knowles . THE RAIN FORESTS OF HOME: Profile of a North American Bioregion. Edited by Peter K. Schoonmaker , Bettina von Hagen , and Edward C. Wolf . CONSERVATION THROUGH CULTURAL SURVIVAL: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas. Edited by Stan Stevens . THE END OF THE PEASANTRY: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961–1988. By Anthony W. Pereira . THIRDSPACE: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places. By Edward W. Soja . ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: People, Politics and Sustainable Development. Edited by Michael J. G. Parnwell and Raymond L. Bryant . TRADITION AND REFORM: Land Tenure and Rural Development in South-East Asia. By Mark Cleary and Peter Eaton . WILD CHINA. Text by John Mac Kinnon ; photographs by Nigel Hicks . JAPANESE AMERICANS: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group. By Paul R. Spickard . THE JAPANESE CITY. Edited by Pradyumna P. Karan and Kristin Stapleton . THE EMPTINESS OF JAPANESE AFFLUENCE. By Gavan Mc Cormack . GÉOGRAPHIE DE LA NUIT. By Luc Bureau . RUSSIA AND THE POST-SOVIET SCENE: A Geographical Perspective. By James H. Bater . HOMO GEOGRAPHICUS: A Framework for Action, Awareness, and Moral Concern. By Robert David Sack . STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY AND THE CHANGING MIDDLE EAST. By Geoffrey Kemp and Robert E. Harkavy .     

Changing Maori Agriculture

THE MAORI AGRICULTURE OF THE AUCKLAND PROVINCE IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY: R. P. Hargreaves, Journal of the Polynesian Society
MAORI AGRICULTURE AFTER THE WARS: ibid.     

Geographical Classics

Abstract

THE GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME AND VIOLENCE: A SPATIAL AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. By Daniel E. Georges. Resource Papers for College Geography, Resource Paper No. 78-1. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, 1978. Pp. vii + 28, $2.50.

SOURCEBOOK ON THE ENVIRONMENT: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. Edited by Kenneth A. Hammond, George Macinko, and Wilma 6. Fairchild. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. x + 613, $20.00.     

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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     

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 .     

Dairying Regions Compared

WISCONSIN AND THE WAIKATO: A COMPARISON OF DAIRY FARMING IN THE UNITED STATES AND NEW ZEALAND: Gordon R. Lewthwaite, Annals of the Association of American Geographers , Vol. 54, No. 1, March 1964, pp. 59–87.     

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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WITH A CAMERA IN MY HANDS: William O. Field NATURAL HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. By BILL MCGUIRE, IAN MASON, and CHRISTOPHER KILBURN. POLITICAL ECOLOGY An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment‐Development Studies. Edited by KARL s. ZIMMERER and THOMAS J. BASSETT. INVENTING THE CHARLES RIVER. By KARL HAGLUND. COMMUNITY ON LAND: Community, Ecology, and the Public Interest. By JANEL M. CURRY and STEVEN MCGUIRE. THE TIGER AND THE PANGOLIN: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China. By CHRIS COGGINS. LE PAYSAGE ANIMAL: L'homme et la grande faune: Une zoogéographié histo‐By XAVIER DE PLANHOL.     

REVIEWS

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MAP PROJECTIONS by J.A.Steers.

MAPS AND MAP-MAKERS by R. V. Tooley.

MODERN CARTOGRAPHY, BASE MAPS FOR WORD NEEDS

ATLAS OF DENMARK I. THE LANDSCLPES by Axel Schou, H. Hagerup Kobenhavn

LUNENBURGER HEIMATLAS by Bruno Schuttau and Paul Hahn     

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

Book reviewed in this article: ENLIGHTENMENT GEOGRAPHY: The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650–1850. By Robert J. Mayhew A LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMED: The Ironmaking District of Salisbury, Connecticut. By Robert B. Gordon EMPIRE EXPRESS: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. By David Haward Bain NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869. By Stephen E. Ambrose ADVENTURES IN THE BONE TRADE: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. By Jon Kalb MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS AND COMMUNITIES. By Don Funnell and Romola Parish VIRTUAL RIVERS: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range. By Ellen E. Wohl CONCRETE AND CLAY: Reworking Nature in New York City. By Matthew Gandy THE GRIT BENEATH THE GLITTER: Tales from the Real Las Vegas. By Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis     

Geographical Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: CREOLIZATION: History, Ethnography, Theory. Edited by Charles Stewart . THE IMPOSSIBLE LAND: Story and Place in California's Imperial Valley. By Phillip H. Round THE HORSE, THE WHEEL AND LANGUAGE: How Bronze‐Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. By David W. Anthony DELEUZE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE: Violence of the Text. By Mark Halsey . AMERICAN GREEN: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn. By Ted Steinberg . LAWN PEOPLE: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are. By Paul Robbins .     

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 .     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
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.