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New Books in Geography
Laura Alice Watt, “The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore” (U California Press, 2016)
Laura Alice Watt
The Paradox of Preservation
Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore
University of California Press, 2016

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network July 16, 2019 Peter Ekman

“Wilderness,” “nature,” and their “preservation” are concepts basic to how the National Park Service organizes our relationship to American land. They are also contested concepts, geographer and environmental historian Laura Alice Watt shows in The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore (University of California... Read More
Douglas Sheflin, “Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains” (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Douglas Sheflin
Legacies of Dust
Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains
University of Nebraska Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in the American West July 10, 2019 Ryan Driskell Tate

The “Dust Bowl” remains a mainstay in American history textbooks. When dust storms swept over the southern plains in the 1930s, they upended farming communities and left thousands of migrants in search of brighter horizons in the “Dirty Thirties.” The historian Douglas Sheflin takes a closer look at the Dust... Read More
Lina del Castillo, “Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
Lina del Castillo
Crafting a Republic for the World
Scientific, Geographic and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia
University of Nebraska Press, 2018

New Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual 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 July 9, 2019 Lisette Varón Carvajal

Lina del Castillo’s book explores scientific, geographic, and historiographic inventions in nineteenth-century Colombia. In this fascinating book, well-known figures of Colombia’s history (such as Francisco José de Caldas, and José María Samper) are cast under new light, while unexplored institutions such as the Instituto Caldas and the Colegio Militar are... Read More
Pankaj Sekhsaria, “Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story” (HarperCollins India, 2017)
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Islands in Flux
The Andaman and Nicobar Story
HarperCollins India, 2017

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in South Asian Studies July 9, 2019 Madhuri Karak

One of the most consistent chroniclers of contemporary issues in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Pankaj Sekhsaria’s writings on the environment, wildlife conservation, development and indigenous communities have provided insights and perspective on the life of the islands for over two decades. Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story... Read More
Genevieve Carpio, “Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race” (U California Press, 2019)
Genevieve Carpio
Collisions at the Crossroads
How Place and Mobility Make Race
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network July 8, 2019 Carrie Lane

In her new book, Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019), Professor Genevieve Carpio considers tensions around mobility and settlement in the 19th- and 20th-century American West, especially California’s Inland Empire. In this wide-ranging study, the first academic work to draw on... Read More
Matthew Edney, “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Matthew H. Edney
Cartography
The Ideal and Its History
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network June 25, 2019 Steven Seegel

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point... Read More
Gregory H. Wolf, “Wrigley Field: The Friendly Confines at Clark and Addison” (SABR, 2019)
Gregory H. Wolf
Wrigley Field
The Friendly Confines at Clark and Addison
Society for American Baseball Research, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in SportsNew Books Network June 25, 2019 Nathan Bierma

Wrigley Field is one of a handful of sports stadiums to have transcended its athletic purpose to become a true American landmark. Nestled in its neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, the park may be a throwback to a bygone era of baseball, but a recent renovation has positioned... Read More