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Steven Seegel, “Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Steven Seegel
Map Men
Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe
University of Chicago Press, 2018

New Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 24, 2020 Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Steven Seegel’s Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2018) is an insightful contribution to the history of map making which is written through and by individual geographers/cartographers/map men. The book focuses primarily on four countries: Germany, Hungary,... Read More
Jessie Labov, “Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation” (Central European UP, 2019)
Jessie Labov
Transatlantic Central Europe
Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation
Central European University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 20, 2020 Steven Seegel

While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term “Central Europe” carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s, and as a political and intellectual project it has receded from the horizon. Proponents of a distinct cultural profile of these countries―all involved... Read More
Diane Jones Allen, “Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form” (Routledge, 2017)
Diane Jones Allen
Lost in the Transit Desert
Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form
Routledge, 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network March 18, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable... Read More
Nancy P. Appelbaum, “Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia” (UNC Press, 2016)
Nancy P. Appelbaum
Mapping the Country of Regions
The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia
University of North Carolina Press, 2016

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network March 13, 2020 Lisette Varón-Carvajal

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chorographic Commission of Colombia, an ambitious geographical expedition, set out to define and map a nascent and still unstable republic. The commission’s purpose was to survey the land, its resources and people, and portray Colombia as a nation prone to the “wonders” of modernization. In... Read More
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, “Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Waste Siege
The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Israel StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network March 9, 2020 Jacob Doherty

Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019) is an ethnography of Palestinian life under occupation that takes waste infrastructures as a starting point for exploring how Palestinians deal with toxicity and uncertainty, how governance happens under conditions of uncertainty, and how everyday goods circulate in... Read More
Larry Wolff, “Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Larry Wolff
Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe

Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Eastern European StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society March 6, 2020 Steven Seegel

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson’s influence on the remapping of borders was profound. But it was his impact on the modern political structuring of Eastern Europe that... Read More
Alex Hidalgo, “Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico” (U Texas Press, 2019)
Alex Hidalgo
Trail of Footprints
A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico
University of Texas Press, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network March 4, 2020  Annabel LaBrecque

There is far more to a map than meets the eye. Such is the case in historian Alex Hidalgo’s Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2019), which focuses on the complex lives of dozens of Oaxacan maps created by Indigenous mapmakers.... Read More

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