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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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BOUNDARIES OF FAITH: Geographical Perspectives on Religious Fundamentalism. By Roger W. Stump . THE POWER OF GOLD: The History of an Obsession. By Peter L. Bernstein BETRAYAL OF TRUST: The Collapse of Global Public Health. By Laurie Garrett . WOMEN'S WORK? American Schoolteachers, 1650–1920. By Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo . GREAT FEUDS IN SCIENCE: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. By Hal Hellman .     

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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     

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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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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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: EAST 40 DEGREES: An Interpretive Atlas. By Jack Williams. THE VIEW FROM VERMONT: Tourism and the Making of an American Rural Landscape. By Blake Harrison. CARIBBEAN AND SOUTHERN: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South. Edited by Helen A. Regis. A HUNDRED HORIZONS: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. By Sugata Bose.     

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     

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

THE HUMBOLDT CURRENT: Nineteenth‐Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. By Aaron Sachs WHITE ROADS OF THE YUCATÁN: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya. By Justine M. Shaw COLD WAR, DEADLY FEVERS: Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975. By Marcos Cueto GOLDEN GULAG: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. By Ruth Wilson Gilmore BECOMING BRAZUCA: Brazilian Immigration to the United States. Edited by Clémence Jouët ‐Pastré and Leticia J. Braga     

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 .     

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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     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: ATLAS DE MAPAS HISTÓRICOS DE HONDURAS/HONDURAS, AN ATLAS OF HISTORICAL MAPS. By William Van Davidson. CITIES OF EUROPE: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements, and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion. Edited by Yuri Kazepov. THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA. By Walter D. Mignolo. MAGNOLIAS WITHOUT MOONLIGHT: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration. By Sheldon Hackney. BORDER LANDSCAPES: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand. By Janet C. Sturgeon. SECOND GROWTH: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia. By Sean Markey, John T. Pierce, Kelly Vodden, and Mark Roseland. LIVING WITH THE CHANGING CALIFORNIA COAST. By Gary Griggs, Kiki Patsch, and Lauret Savoy. CHICAGO: A Geography of the City and Its Region. By John C. Hudson.     

Geographical Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: THOREAU's COUNTRY: Journey through a Transformed Landscape. By David R. Foster . VISIONS OF PARADISE: Glimpses of Our Landscape's Legacy. By John Warfield Simpson . CREATING COLORADO: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860–1940. By William Wyckoff . THE DAWN OF CONSERVATION DIPLOMACY: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey . ORGANIZING THE LANDSCAPE: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism. Edited by Andrew Herod GREEN LAND, BROWN LAND, BLACK LAND: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800–1990. By James C. Mc Cann . RED CAPITALISM IN SOUTH CHINA: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta. By George C. S. Lin . PILLAR OF SAND: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? By Sandra Postel. xv THE CHACO MERIDIAN: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest. By Stephen H. Lekson .     

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

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 .     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

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     

Chinese Items

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Arroyos and Environmental Change in the American South-West. By Ronald U. Cooke and Richard W. Reeves. Oxford Research Studies in Geography. London and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii + 213, $18.75.

Uganda: The Asian Exiles. By Thomas and Margaret Melady. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1976. Pp. 86, $6.95.

Urban Japan: Its Foundations and Growth. By David Kornhauser. The World's Landscapes, ed. J. M. Houston. London and New York: Longman, 1976. Pp. xiii + 180, $15.00 and $7.50.

Our Landed Heritage: The Public Domain, 1776–1970. 2nd ed. By Roy M. Robbins. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1976.

The North American City. By Maurice Yeates and Barry Garner. 2nd ed. New York: Harper &; Row, 1976. Pp. xxv + 512, $13.95.

The Reasons for the Seasons: The Great Cosmic Megagalactic Trip Without Moving from your Chair. By Linda Allison. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Pp. 128, $6.95 and $3.95.     

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 .     

The Usefulness Of A Map With Geographic Text

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The Environment Of Mankind: An Introduction To Physical Geography. By Donald K. Fellows. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Hamilton Publishing Company, John Wiley &; Sons, 1975. Pp. xi + 484, $12.95.

Ohio—An American Heartland. By Allen G. Noble et al. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological Survey Bulletin 65. Columbus, Ohio, 1975. Pp. xiii + 230, $5.70.

Ohio—An American Heartland. By Allen G. Noble et al. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Geological Survey Bulletin 65. Columbus, Ohio, 1975. Pp. xiii + 230, $5.70.

Oxford Regional Economic Atlas: The United States And Canada. Edited by John D. Chapman and John C. Sherman. London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 128, $21.95 and $7.95.

Bangladesh. By B. L. C. Johnson. London: Harper &; Row, 1975. Pp. 104, $13.50.