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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Book reviewed in this article: AMERICAN EMPIRE: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. By Neil Smith . THE NEW IMPERIALISM. By David Harvey . DECOLONIZING NATURE: Strategies for Conservation in a Post‐Colonial Era. Edited by William M. Adams and Martin Mulligan . CONTESTED NATURE: Promoting International Biodiversity with Social Justice in the Twenty‐First Century. Edited by Steven R. Brechin , Peter R. Wilshusen , Crystal L. Fortwangler , and Patrick C. West . IN THE TIME OF TREES AND SORROWS: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan. By Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar . THE FARM AS NATURAL HABITAT: Reconnecting Food Systems with Ecosystems. Edited by Dana L. Jackson and Laura L. Jackson .     

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 .     

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 .     

READING THE APPALACHIAN LANDSCAPE

THE UPLAND SOUTH: The Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape. By Terry G. Jordan ‐Bychkov APPALACHIAN FOLKWAYS. By John B. Rehder EXTRACTING APPALACHIA: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910–1945. By Geoffrey L. Buckley THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTURE. Vol. 2: GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Richard Pillsbury     

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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 .     

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

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     

Orcharding in Canterbury and Auckland

HISTORY OF FRUITGROWING IN CANTERBURY: S. Frew
DEVELOPMENT OF FRUITGROWING IN THE AUCKLAND DISTRICT: F. L. Bailey     

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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 .     

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 .     

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

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

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 .     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
G eography of F iji : FIJI, LITTLE INDIA OF THE PACIFIC. By John Wesley Coulter.
V olcanic L andforms : VOLCANOES AS LANDSCAPE FORMS. By C. A. Cotton.     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

THE NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE. By Joseph S. Wood , with a contribution by Michael P. Steinitz . CAPROCK CANYONLANDS: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains. By Dan Flores . LET THE COWBOY RIDE: Cattle Ranching in the American West. By Paul F. Starrs WANDERING PEOPLES: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850. By Cynthia Radding . RAINFOREST CITIES: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon. By John O. Browder and Brian J. Godfrey . THE ENCHANTED AMAZON RAIN FOREST: Stories from a Vanishing World. By Nigel J. H. Smith HISTORICAL ECOLOGY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt MAPPING MEN AND EMPIRE: A Geography of Adventure. By Richard Phillips . MAPPING AN EMPIRE: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765–1843. By Matthew H. Edney . CHARTING AN EMPIRE: Geography at the English Universities, 1580–1620. By Lesley B. Cormack . THE MYTH OF CONTINENTS: A Critique of Metageography. By Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen .     

Geographical Reviews

HISTORICAL ATLASES: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870. By WALTER GOFFART. TOWARD A GEOGRAPHY OF ART. By THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN. THE COGNITION OF GEOGRAPHIC SPACE. By ROB KITCHIN and MARK BLADES. REPRESENTATIONS OF SPACE AND TIME. By DONNA J. PEUQUET. GIS AND PUBLIC HEALTH. By ELLEN K. CROMLEY and SARA L. MCLAFFERTY HUNTING THE 1918 FLU: One Scientist' Search for a Killer Virus. By KIRSTY DUNCAN. PRINCIPLES OF EMERGENCY PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. By DAVID ALEXANDER.     

REVIEWS

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.     

CELEBRATING CENTRIFUGAL FORCES IN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY

GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA AT THE DAWN OF THE 21^ST CENTURY. Edited by GARY L. GAILE and CORT J. WILLMOTT.     

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.