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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 .     

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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     

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GOOD GROWING: Why Organic Farming Works. By Leslie A. Duram AGRARIAN DREAMS: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. By Julie Guthman KEEPING IT LIVING: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. Edited by Douglas Deur and Nancy L. Turner TOGETHER AT THE TABLE: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System. By Patricia Allen FRENCH BEANS AND FOOD SCARES: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age. By Susanne Freidberg DANGEROUS HARVEST: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes. Edited by Michael K. Steinberg , Joseph J. Hobbs , and Kent Mathewson SLASH‐AND‐BURN AGRICULTURE: The Search for Alternatives. Edited by Cheryl A. Palm , Stephen A. Vosti , Pedro Sanchez , and Polly J. Ericksen ISLE OF FIRE: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. By Christian Kull     

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T he I nterpretation of A erial P hotographs AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS: THEIR USE AND INTERPRETATION. By A. J. Eardley
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND THEIR APPLICATION. By H. T. U. Smith
THE USE OF AERIAL SURVEY IN FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURE. By J. W. B. Sisam     

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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     

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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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GEORGE PERKINS MARSH: Prophet of Conservation. By David Lowenthal FROM WEST TO EAST: California and the Making of the American Mind. By Stephen Schwartz GEOGRAPHY AND WORLDVIEW: A Christian Reconnaissance. By Henk Aay and Sander Griffioen THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BOAT: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma. By Andrew Walker SHADY PRACTICES: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The Gambia. By Richard A. Schroeder THE WORKS: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. By Betsy Hunter Bradley BETWEEN MONTMARTRE AND THE MUDD CLUB: Popular Music and the Avant‐Garde. By Bernard Gendron     

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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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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.     

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BIG SURF, DEEP DIVES, AND THE ISLANDS: My Life in the Ocean. By Ricky Grigg . MONTANA GHOST DANCE: Essays on Land and Life. By John B. Wright . BASEBALL, BARNS, AND BLUEGRASS: A Geography of American Folklife. Edited by George O. Carney . ATLAS OF THE IRISH RURAL LANDSCAPE. Edited by F. H. A. Aalen , Kevin Whelan , and Matthew Stout . THE TASTE OF AMERICAN PLACE: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods. Edited by Barbara G. Shortridge and James R. Shortridge . NO FOREIGN FOOD: The American Diet in Time and Place. By Richard Pillsbury . ANIMAL GEOGRAPHIES: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands. Edited by Jennifer Wolch and Jody Emel . THE COTTON PLANTATION SOUTH SINCE THE CIVIL WAR. By Charles S. Aiken .     

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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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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.     

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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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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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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 .     

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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 .     

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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     

IN OUR CONTEMPORARIES:

LOCATING THE VEGETATION OF EARLY CANTERBURY: A MAP AND THE SOURCES: W. B. Johnston
LOW VALUE HOUSING IN TWO NEW ZEALAND CITIES: L. L. Pownall