GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

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

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:
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.     

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.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
SIR JOSEPH BANKS IN NEW ZEALAND, FROM HIS JOURNAL. Edited by W. P. Morrell.
A HISTORY OF CANTERBURY, Volume I: To 1854. Edited by James Hight and C. R. Straubel.
A S urveyor on the W estland G oldeields
MY DEAR BANNIE: Gerhard Mueller's Letters from The West Coast 1865–6. Edited by M. V. Mueller.
M id -T wentieth C entury N ew Z ealand : Historian'S V iewpoint THIS NEW ZEALAND. By F. L. W. Wood.
M id -T wentieth C entury N ew Z ealand : GEOGRAPHERS VIEWPOINT
NEW ZEALAND: A REGIONAL VIEW. By K. B. Cumberland and J. W. Fox.
O ne H undred Y ears in H awkes B ay
THE STORY OF HAWKES BAY. By A. H. Reed.
M an and L and in the W estern P acific
L and and P eople in H ong K ong
LAND USE IN HONG KONG AND THE NEW TERRITORIES. By T. R. Tregear.
THE PATTERN OF ASIA. Edited by Norton Ginsburg.
AN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF EAST PAKISTAN. By Nafis Ahmad.     

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

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 .     

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     

Geographical Reviews

WITH A CAMERA IN MY HANDS: William O. Field NATURAL HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. By BILL MCGUIRE, IAN MASON, and CHRISTOPHER KILBURN. POLITICAL ECOLOGY An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment‐Development Studies. Edited by KARL s. ZIMMERER and THOMAS J. BASSETT. INVENTING THE CHARLES RIVER. By KARL HAGLUND. COMMUNITY ON LAND: Community, Ecology, and the Public Interest. By JANEL M. CURRY and STEVEN MCGUIRE. THE TIGER AND THE PANGOLIN: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China. By CHRIS COGGINS. LE PAYSAGE ANIMAL: L'homme et la grande faune: Une zoogéographié histo‐By XAVIER DE PLANHOL.     

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

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     

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Book reviewed in this article: GEOGRAPHY AND RETAILING. By Peter Scott. LANDFORMS OF COLD CLIMATES. By J. L. Davies. ATLAS OF BUNDALEER PLAINS AND TATALA. By F. M. Rothery. (Introduction by N. G. Butlin and J. N. Jennings.) THE EUROPEAN PEASANTRY: THE FINAL PHASE. By S. H. Franklin. AUSTRALIA WET OR DRY? THE PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC LIMITS TO THE EXPANSION OF IRRIGATION. By B. R. Davidson. THE SEARCH FOR THE ISLANDS OF SOLOMON 1567–1838. By Colin Jack-Hinton. CAPITALISM PRIMITIVE AND MODERN. By T. Scarlett Epstein. PACIFIC MARKET PLACES. Edited by H. C. Brookfield. WEST AFRICA. By W. B. Morgan andj. C. Pugh. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS IN GEOGRAPHY. By Leslie J. King. PATTERNS OF INDUSTRIES. By R. S. Mathieson. PATTERNS OF CITIES. By A. J. Rose. ADMINISTRATION IN NEW ZEALAND'S MULTI-RACIAL SOCIETY. Edited by R. H. Brookes and I. H. Kawharu. ANTARCTIC MAP FOLIO SERIES. Folio 7, Glaciers of the Antarctic. By J. Mercer; and Folio 8, The Antarctic Atmosphere: Climatology of the Surface Environment. By W. S. Weyant. THE ARID ZONES. By K. Walton. LAND USE CAPABILITY SURVEY HANDBOOK. Water and Soil Division, Ministry of Works, Wellington QUANTITATIVE GEOGRAPHY. By John P. Cole and Cuchlaine A. M. King. AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. By Maurice H. Ycatcs. URBAN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY TO 1966. By G. Breese. ARID LANDS OP AUSTRALIA. Edited by R. O. Slatyer and R. A. Perry. GROWTH OF THE WORLD'S URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION, 1920–2000. READINGS IN CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY. Edited by Robert M. Irving. CANADA: A GEOGRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION. Edited by John Warkentin. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED: Notice of a book on these pages does not preclude its subsequent review in New Zealand Geographer or New Zealand Journal of Geography Australia New Zealand and the South-West Pacific. By J. H. Holmes. North West England. By W. E. Marsden. Geographical Digest. Edited by Harold Fullard. Landscape Studies. By J. H. Shaw and F. G. Kirkwood. Antarctica. By John Bechervaise. Hong Kong and the Philippines. By John Whiteley. The European Peasantry. By S. H. Franklin. Physical and Information Models in Geography. Edited by Richard J. Chorley and Peter Haggett. Integrated Models in Geography. Edited by Richard J. Chorley and Peter Haggett. Mt. Wilhelm Studies I: The Alpine and Subalpine Vegetation. By L. K. Wade and D. N. McVean. World Problems: A Topic Geography. By M. Long and B. S. Roberson. Matupit: Land, Politics and Change among the Tolai of New Britain. By A. L. Epstein. Brother Wohlers. By Sheila Natusch. The Camel in Australia. By Tom. L. McKnight. South Australia From the Air. Edited by Michael Williams. Fiji in the Pacific. By G. T. A. Kerr and T. A. Donnelly. North West Europe. By F. R. Dobson and H. E. Virgo. Senior Geography. By V. G. Honour, D. Hopley and A. R. Dyer. Macquarie Island. By J. S. Compston. Atlas Four. Edited by J. David Thompson. Europe in Maps. By R. Knowles and P. D. E. Stowc. The Arid Lands. R. L. Heathcote and C. R. Twidale. Fishing. By R. S. Mathieson. Wheat. By Hylda A. Rolfe.     

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 .     

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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.     

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: 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 .     

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     

REVIEWS

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.     

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

CONSERVANCY: The Land Trust Movement in America. By RICHARD BREWER. CONTEMPORARY MEANINGS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: From What to Why? Edited by STEPHEN TRUDGILL and ANDRÉ ROY. GAINING GROUND: A History of Landmaking in Boston. By NANCY S. SEASHOLES. CHANGING MINES IN AMERICA. By PETER GOIN and C. ELIZABETH RAYMOND. PLANTING NATURE: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America. By SHAUL E. COHEN. SEEING THE FOREST AND THE TREES: Human‐Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems. Edited by EMILIO F. MORAN and ELINOR OSTROM. LANDSCAPE AND IMAGES. By JOHN STILGOE.