New Books in Geography

Willliam Rankin, “After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)

2017/5/17

Policymakers and the public clamored for maps throughout the first half of the twentieth century. In

Lisa Messeri, “Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds” (Duke UP, 2016)

2017/5/4

What kind of object is a planet? Lisa Messeri‘s new book asks and addressed this question in a fasci

Territory-A Literary Project about Maps: Discussion with Tommy Mira y Lopez

2017/5/3

As our name makes clear, the New Books Network focuses on books. And as a host who looks at contempo

Cemil Aydin, “The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History” (Harvard UP, 2017)

2017/5/1

Almost daily in popular media the Muslim World is pinpointed as a homogeneous entity that stands sep

Allison E. Fagan, “From the Edge: Chicana/Chicano Border Literature and the Politics of Print” (Rutgers UP, 2016)

2017/4/24

What is a book? The answer, at first glance, may seem apparent: printed material consisting of a cer

Serhat Unaldi, “Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2016)

2017/3/28

In Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok (University of Hawaii Pre

Glen A. Fritz, “The Lost Sea of the Exodus, 2nd Edition” (GeoTech, 2016)

2017/3/9

The crossing of the Israelites through the Red Sea is one of the most famous scenes in the story of

Jayde Lin Roberts, “Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese” (U. Washington Press, 2016)

2017/2/17

In recent years, scholarship on Burma, or Myanmar, has undergone a renaissance. Jayde Lin Roberts’

Randy Olson, “Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)

2017/2/4

Randy Olson, author of Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story (University of Chicago

Joshua Howe, “Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming” (U. Washington Press, 2016)

2017/1/10

The year 2016 was the hottest year on record, and in recent months, drought and searing heat have fa

Regis Darques, “Mapping Versatile Boundaries: Understanding the Balkans” (Springer, 2016)

2016/12/11

Regis Darques‘ Mapping Versatile Boundaries: Understanding the Balkans (Springer, 2016) offers the u

A. John Simmons, “Boundaries of Authority” (Oxford UP, 2016)

2016/11/1

Political states claim the moral right to rule the persons living within their jurisdiction; they cl

Charlotte Mathieson, ed. “Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present” (Palgrave, 2016)

2016/10/27

What is the relationship between the sea and culture? In Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the S

Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore, “Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2015)

2016/10/11

How do new policies move from one city or country to another, and is there something distinct about

Harini Nagendra, “Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future” (Oxford UP, 2016)

2016/9/26

In Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future (Oxford University Press, 2016), H

Neil Kent, “Crimea: A History” (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2016)

2016/9/2

In 2014 Crimea shaped the headlines much as it did some 160 years ago, when the Crimean War pitted B

William Cavert, “The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

2016/8/29

Air pollution may seem to be a problem uniquely of the modern age, but in fact it is one that has be

D. Asher Ghertner, “Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi” (Oxford UP, 2015)

2016/8/11

D. Asher Ghertner explores why the ways things look are fundamental for Delhi’s transformation into

Ana Foteva, “Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders Between the Balkans and Europe” (Peter Lang, 2014)

2016/6/19

Starting with Metternich’s declaration that the Balkans begin at Rennweg (a street in the Third Dist

Emily T. Yeh, “Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development” (Cornell UP, 2013)

2015/6/15

Emily T. Yeh‘s Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell U

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