New Books in Geography

David A. Hopkins, “Red Fighting Blue: How Geography and Electoral Rules Polarize American Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

2018/2/12

Do we live in a country of red and blue states or something more purple-ish? The red state/blue stat

Lisa Brooks, “Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War” (Yale UP, 2018)

2018/1/17

Lisa Brooks, Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College, recovers a comp

Susan Smith-Peter, “Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia” (Brill, 2017)

2018/1/15

In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia (B

Linda Grover, “Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)

2018/1/11

Onigamiising is the Ojibwemowin word for Duluth and the surrounding area. In this book of fifty warm

Megan Adamson Sijapati and Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, “Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya” (Routledge, 2016)

2017/12/18

The Himalayas have long been at the crossroads of the exchange between cultures, yet the social live

Owen Flanagan, “The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility” (Oxford UP, 2017)

2017/12/15

What is it to be moral, to lead an ethically good life? From a naturalistic perspective, any answer

Ricardo D. Salvatore, “Disciplinary Conquest: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945 (Duke UP, 2016)

2017/10/30

Ricardo D. Salvatore‘s new book, Disciplinary Conquest: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900-1945 (D

Ryan D. Enos, “The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

2017/10/19

Ryan Enos is the author of The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics (Cambridge University

Sara Dant, “Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)

2017/9/22

From Frederick Jackson Turner to Walter Prescott Webb, the high cliffs of Yosemite to the flat deser

Ernesto Bassi, “An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World” (Duke UP, 2017)

2017/8/23

Where is the Caribbean? In An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial

Betty S. Anderson, “A History of the Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues (Stanford UP, 2016)

2017/8/16

As the Middle East continues to become more topical to American and European audiences, a need for t

Bradley Camp Davis, “Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands” (U of Washington Press, 2017)

2017/7/29

Recent years have seen an upsurge in studies asking questions about, and in, borderlands. The topic

Zachary Lockman, “Field Notes: The Making of Middle Eastern Studies in the United States” (Stanford UP, 2016)

2017/7/24

The dominant narrative in the history of the study of the Middle East has claimed that the Cold War

Steven Seegel, “Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire” (U. of Chicago Press, 2012)

2017/7/5

Since the publication of this book five years ago, Steven Seegel has become a leading authority on m

Michael Youngblood, “Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization” (South Asian Studies Press, 2016)

2017/6/30

Cultivating Community: Interest, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization by Michael

Or Rosenboim, “The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950” (Princeton UP, 2017)

2017/5/23

The world order was in crisis at mid-century. Intellectuals in England and the United States perceiv

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