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

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.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

ARIDLAND SPRINGS IN NORTH AMERICA: Ecology and Conservation. Edited by Lawrence E. Stevens and Vicky J. Meretsky TRINCHERAS SITES IN TIME, SPACE, AND SOCIETY. Edited by Suzanne K. Fish , Paul R. Fish , and M. Elisa Villalpando THE TASTE OF PLACE: A Cultural Journey into Terroir. By Amy B. Trubek THE GROWTH AND COLLAPSE OF PACIFIC ISLAND SOCIETIES: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Jean –Louis Rallu LEPROSY AND EMPIRE: A Medical and Cultural History. By Rod Edmond EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES. Edited by Joyce Davidson , Liz Bondi , and Mick Smith     

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.     

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

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 .     

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.     

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

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 .     

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

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     

Cartography and the Face of the Earth

MAP AND LANDSCAPE. By Dorothy Sylvester.
MAPS AND DIAGRAMS. By F. J. Monkhouse and H. R. Wilkinson.
THE LOOK OF MAPS. By Arthur H. Robinson.
ELEMENTS OF CARTOGRAPHY. By Arthur H. Robinson.
GEOGRAPHY FROM THE AIR. By F. Walker.
OUR WORLD FROM THE AIR. By E. A. Gutkind. London: Chatto and Windus, 1952, pp. 250.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

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 .     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

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 .     

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

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     

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

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     

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.