GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

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     

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

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

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 .     

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

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     

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: 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.     

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

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

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

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

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

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     

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.     

Geographical Reviews

THE MIDDLE EAST IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Power, Politics and Ideology. By FRED HALLIDAY. GEOPOLITICS OF THE WORLD SYSTEM. By SAUL BERNARD COHEN. HEGEMONY: The New Shape of Global Power. By JOHN AGNEW. GEOGRAPHIES OF MUSLIM WOMEN: Gender, Religion, and Space. Edited by GHAZI‐WALID FALAH and CAROLINE NAGEL.     

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

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

Book reviewed in this article: YOUR PRIVATE SKY: R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science. Edited by Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein . Translated by Steven Lindberg and Julia Thorson . PRINCE HENRY ‘THE NAVIGATOR’: A Life. By Peter Russell SPEAKING THROUGH THE ASPENS: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada. By J. Mallea ‐Olaetxe . PETROLIA: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom. By Brian Black CRAFTING THE CULTURE AND HISTORY OF FRENCH CHOCOLATE. By Susan J. Terrio . VIRGINIA IN MAPS: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development. Edited by Richard W. Stephenson and Marianne M. Mc Kee . THE ATLAS OF EXPERIENCE. By Louise van Swaaij and Jean Klare .