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     

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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     

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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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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 .     

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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     

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WEATHER AND WEATHER MAPS. Edited by Gosta H. Liljequist
THE TIME OF DARKNESS. By R. J. Blong
BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN GEOGRAPHY REVISITED. Edited by Kevin R. Cox and Reginald G. Golledge
GOVERNMENT AND CAPITALISM: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHOICE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA. By N. G. Butlin, A. Barnard and J. J. Pincus.
CINDERELLAS OF THE EMPIRE. By Barrie Macdonald     

Geographical Reviews

A CENTURY OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHY. Edited by RON JOHNSTON and MICHAEL WILLIAMS. THE EUROPEANS: A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment. By ROBERT C. OSTERGREN and JOHN G. RICE. A COMPANION TO FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY. Edited by LISE NELSON and JONI SEAGER. MILITARY GEOGRAPHIES. By RACHEL WOODWARD. MEMORY AND THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN PUBLIC SPACE. Edited by DANIEL J. WALKOWITZ and LISA MAYA KNAUER. THAILAND AT THE MARGINS: Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour. By JIM GLASSMAN.     

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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.     

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POLITICAL ECOLOGY: A Critical Introduction. By Paul Robbins . CITIES, WAR, AND TERRORISM: Towards an Urban Geopolitics. Edited by Stephen Graham . THE CITY AS SUBURB: A History of Northeast Baltimore since 1660. By Eric L. Holcomb . HISPANIC SPACES, LATINO PLACES: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America. Edited by Daniel D. Arreola . RHUMB LINES AND MAP WARS: A Social History of the Mercator Projection. By Mark Monmonier . THE POLITICAL MAPPING OF CYBERSPACE. By Jeremy W. Crampton . THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE INTERNET INDUSTRY Venture Capital, Dot‐Coms, and Local Knowledge. By Matthew A. Zook .     

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.     

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: 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

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 .     

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: 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: TRANSNATIONALISM AND NEW AFRICAN IMMIGRATION TO SOUTH AFRICA. Edited by Jonathan Crush and David A. McDonald . WALKING THE TIGHT ROPE: Informal Livelihoods and Social Networks in a West African City. By Ilda Lourenço ‐Lindell . EGYPT: An Economic Geography. By Fouad N. Ibrahim and Barbara Ibrahim . SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS IN KALAHARI ENVIRONMENTS: Contributions to Global Debates. Edited by Deborah Sporton and David S. G. Thomas . CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Prospects for Developing Countries. Edited by Anil Markandya and Kirsten Halsnaes . THE STRAITS OF MALACCA: Gateway or Gauntlet? By Donald B. Freeman .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
GEOMORPHOLOGY: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AUSTRALIA. By C. R. Twidale, Melbourne.
COASTS. By E. C. F. Bird.
INDIA AND PAKISTAN. By O. H. K. Spate and A. T. A. Learmonth, with the collaboration of A. M. Learmonth, and a chapter on Ceylon by B. H. Farmer. Third Edition, London.
ESSAYS IN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Charles A. Fisher.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF STATE POLICIES. By J. R. V. Prcscott.
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by P. N. Troy, Canberra.
THE FATEFUL VOYAGE OF THE ST JEAN BAPTISTE. By J. Dunmore.
EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS. An Inaugural Lecture given by Professor Craig Duncan, first Professor of Geography, on Tuesday, 19 July, 1966. Reprinted from Seven Inaugural Lectures by the Foundation Professors of the University 1965–1966.
POLLUTION: WHAT IT IS; WHAT IT DOES; WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT. Edited by W. J. Maunder.     

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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.     

CHRISTALLER CENTRAL PLACE STRUCTURES: AN INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT. By Nurudeen Alao, Michael F. Dacey, Omar Davies, Kenneth G. Denike, James Huff, John B. Barr, M. J. Webber.

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THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TOURISM ON PACIFIC COMMUNITIES. Edited by Bryan H. Far-rell.
A NEW KIND OF SUGAR: TOURISM IN THE PACIFIC. Edited by Ben R. Finney and Karen Ann Watson.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

SOCIETY IN TIME AND SPACE: A Geographical Perspective on Change. By Robert A. Dodgshon . CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS: The Politics of Writing Global Space. By Gearóid Ó Tuathail . THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF BANANAS: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean. By Lawrence S. Grossman . A FAVORED PLACE: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present. By Alfred H. Siemens . WISCONSIN LAND AND LIFE. Edited by Robert C. Ostergren and Thomas R. Vale . MAPS AND POLITICS. By Jeremy Black . THE HEROIC EARTH: Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918–1933. By David Thomas Murphy . ETHNIC FRONTIERS AND PERIPHERIES: Landscapes of Development and Inequality in Israel. Edited by Oren Yiftachel and Avinoam Meir . CONTEMPORARY ARGENTINA: A Geographical Perspective. By David J. Keeling . A CITY FOR ALL: Valuing Difference and Working with Diversity. Edited by Jo Beall . OUR URBAN FUTURE. New Paradigms for Equity and Sustainability. By Akhtar A. Badshah .