Historical geography Books

Book SynopsisIn this history of the British surveys of India, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques to create and define the spacial image of its Indian empire, and to legitimize its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science.

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Book SynopsisNeil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gathers some of his rich and varied writings. Harris takes us from John Philip Sousa to Superman, with stops along the way to explore art museums and world fairs, shopping malls and hotel lobbies, urban design and utopian novels, among other artifacts of American cultures. The essays fall into three general sections: the first treats the history of cultural institutions, highlighting the role of museums; the second section focuses on some literary, artistic, and entrepreneurial responses to the new mass culture; and the final group of essays explores the social history of art and architecture. Throughout Harris's diverse writings certain themes recurthe redefining of boundaries between high art and popular culture, the relationship between public taste and technological change, and the very notion of what constitutes a shared social experience. Harris's pioneering work has broadened the field of cultural history and encouraged whole new areas of inquiry. Cultural Excursions will be useful for those in American and culture studies, as well as for the general reader trying to make sense of the culture in which we live.

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Book SynopsisThis text traces Armenia's past from ancient times to the end of the 20th century through more than 200 colour maps containing information about physical geography, demography, and sociological, religious, cultural and linguistic history.

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Book SynopsisIn eighteenth - and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. This book takes readers on a journey into the nature of exploration.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Chapter One Exploration and Narrative: Travel, Writing, Publishing, and the House of Murray Chapter Two Undertaking Travel and Exploration: Motives and Practicalities Chapter Three Writing the Truth: Claims to Credibility in Exploration and Narrative Chapter Four Explorers Become Authors: Authorship and Authorization Chapter Five Making the Printed Work: Paratextual Material, Visual Images, and Book Production Chapter Six Travel Writing in the Marketplace Chapter Seven Assembling Words and Worlds Appendix Books of Non-European Travel and Exploration Published by John Murray between 1773 and 1859: By Date of First Imprint, with Notes on Edition History before 1901 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. Geographic information systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the skill required to create maps. This volume features expert contributors who provide both original research, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography.Trade Review"Certain to be the standard reference for all subsequent scholarship." (New York Times)

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Book SynopsisSusan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes towards world geography from the end of 19th century exploration to the dawn of the Cold War. The work discusses the study of geography and its place in culture and politicsTrade Review"Schulten steps up to the challenge of producing a full-length work about the political economy of mapmaking.... An ambitious history of the rise of popular cartography in the United States." - Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker "A well-documented account of how politics, history and culture influenced the study and presentation of geography.... Theory is wisely balanced by a hodgepodge of odd and interesting facts about maps, politics and American cultural trends." - Publishers Weekly "An important new work.... Schulten's original synthesis ranges widely and insightfully from the effects of war on map design to map projection as a reflection of how Americans saw themselves as an emergent world power." - Mark Monmonier, author of How to Lie with Maps and Air Apparent

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Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. This title charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map.Trade Review"In a work of deep scholarship and insight, Susan Schulten traces the origins of a now-ubiquitous presence in American life: maps with a story to tell. Schulten uncovers not only a fascinating panorama of maps but also a colorful array of characters who taught America to see itself in new ways. Read this book and maps will never look the same." -Edward L. Ayers, University of Richmond"

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Book SynopsisProvides an introduction to how Korea was and is represented cartographically. This title examines the differing cartographic traditions prevalent in the early Joseon period in Korea and its temporal equivalent in early modern Europe.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Foliard offers an exhaustive account of British cartographic knowledge of the region before border incisions were made during and immediately after the First World War. This is a rich and valuable contribution to the body of work on Orientalism, and one that reflects the deep-rooted anxiety that lay at the heart of the imperial project. As an account of imperfect knowledge mixed with hubris, it is also devastating proof that fragility of information was not an obstacle to imperialist ambitions." * Times Literary Supplement *"The great achievement of the first third of Foliard’s book is to describe the various British attempts in the mid-19th century to represent the region visually by means of maps and surveys, and to give an account of the diverse motivations for this. Some were inspired by the biblical or classical past, others by the hope of settlement and economic development. But Foliard’s main point is that there was no system to this, and that it would be wrong-headed to see it in terms of an imperial plan. In particular he shows that the different government departments in London and India had their own quite different reasons for surveying the lands and seas of the region." * London Review of Books *"Ambitious and remarkable. . . . this is an outstanding book: highly original, penetrating, elegantly written, and handsomely produced." * American Historical Review *"Foliard has written an exceptional and important book for historians of cartography, scholars of the Middle East and military-studies researchers." * Imago Mundi *"Foliard has produced a study that will no doubt become the standard work on cartography and the emergence of the Middle East. Beyond its immediate importance to the field of Middle Eastern and British imperial history, it opens up possibilities of comparison as well. Indeed, Dislocating the Orient should be read alongside comparable work in imperial cartography by Matthew Edney, Felix Driver, D. Graham Burnett, and Ian Barrow." * Journal of Modern History *“Foliard’s book is a highly significant contribution to the growing literature on cartography and empire. Not the least of the projects of European imperialism was the mapping of the globe. Far from being an objective exercise, this mapping was bound by ideological and cultural, military, and ethnic considerations. Nowhere was this truer than in the region which came to be known as the Middle East. The importance of Dislocating the Orient lies both in the light it sheds on the construction of the Middle East, underpinning the politics and tensions of today, and on the applicability of its ideas to other imperial zones in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” * John M. MacKenzie, Lancaster University *“Dislocating the Orient is a richly illustrated, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking enquiry into the intellectual and cartographic origins of the ‘Near East’ in a period when the region was of great religious and cultural interest and of enormous strategic importance. Foliard’s focus is maps and mapping—but this book offers so much more. It explores the construction of the ‘Near East’ in nineteenth-century public minds, and in school and university education, in Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, and within the region itself. It illuminates the connections between exploration and espionage and the institutional apparatus of empire. From Victorian atlases and scriptural geographies to the implications of the 1919 Versailles agreement, Foliard traces the fashioning and representation of a region key to the making of the modern world with erudition and élan.” * Charles W. J. Withers, University of Edinburgh * “The space that is ‘the Middle East’ remains contentious and controversial. Foliard’s comprehensive cartographic analysis puts its attempted delineation and definition in a broad cultural context. Appropriately, with such a sprawling subject, this is neither simple history, geography, nor cartography but a fusion of all three. The message is clear: there was no uniform or universal British mental map which holds good across the decades in question. Any notion of a single unitary triumphalist narrative of ‘the Middle East’ dissolves, as maps are shown to emerge from and to serve different constituencies, each with their own preconceptions and purposes, ones that vary from decade to decade. Foliard is well aware that the instrumentalized geographical entities with which he deals have complicated the geo-political realities of the present. His ‘worried history’ makes no claim to absolute truth, place blame or offer immediate lessons for the present. There remains plenty to worry about, but he shows us how we have come to be where we are today.” * Keith Robbins, University of Glasgow *A Book of the Year. “Daniel Foliard’s Dislocating the Orient: British maps and the making of the Middle East, 1854–1921 (Chicago) skillfully examines Victorian and Edwardian conceptions of another “East”, revealing how spiritual journeys shape and deform cartographic documents.” -- Rachel Polonsky * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. From Sebastopol to Suez (1854–1869) 1. The Mid-Victorian Perspective: A Fragmented East 2. Labeling the East 3. Maps for the Masses?Part II. A Shifting East in the Age of High Imperialism (1870–1895) 4. Oriental Designs 5. Virtual Travel in the Age of High ImperialismPart III. The Fabrication of the Middle East (1895–1921) 6. Seeing Red? 7. Enter Middle East 8. Falling Into Places General Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Notes on Methodology and Select Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis''Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read'' - Ellie Mae O''Hagan An engrossing exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned expertsMeteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet''s 4.5-billion year history a single species is dictating Earth''s future.To some the Anthropocene symbolises a future of superlative control of our environment. To others it is the height of hubris, the illusion of our mastery over nature. Whatever your view, just below the surface of this odd-sounding scientific word, the Anthropocene, is a heady mix of science, philosophy, religion and politics linkTrade ReviewA careful explanation of what society is doing to this amazing planet and its people. I was absolutely gripped. Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read -- Ellie Mae O’HaganA relentless reckoning of how we, as a species, got ourselves into the mess we're in today. . . told with determination and in chiseled, almost literary prose. Indeed, the book's main story - how one species, Homo sapiens, fresh off the trees of Africa, came to rule the Earth so completely that it now stands a good chance of wrecking it - has the force of a Greek tragedy * Wall Street Journal *A highly entertaining examination of the many ways in which humans are now profoundly altering Earth -- Robin Mckie * Observer Books of the Year *A clear, intelligent and engaged history of and argument about the Anthropocene. . . If readers want a judicious and engaging marker of where the debate has reached, The Human Planet is it -- Robert J. Mayhew * Times Higher Education *Profound and thought-provoking, this book does a remarkable job explaining where the current proposal to define a new human-dominated era properly fits -- Thomas E. Lovejoy, winner of the Blue Planet PrizeThat humans now dominate the 'natural' systems of our planet is the key fact of our time -- this book does a remarkable job of explaining how that came to pass, and why it matters so much -- Bill McKibben, author FalterUnderstanding what it means for humans to have become a geological force reshaping the workings of the Earth is both a deep intellectual challenge and a political necessity. Richly thought through and provocative from its title onwards, The Human Planet rises to that challenge, bringing together Earth history and human history in a new way. Its reassessment of the past will equip its readers to understand the future -- and perhaps to improve it -- Oliver Morton, author of The Planet RemadeToday scientists increasingly believe that we have entered a new era, the Anthropocene. In this succinct but sweeping re-evaluation of the human story, Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin show exactly why this abstract-sounding contention should radically affect our views of today and tomorrow. The Human Planet packs more ideas into a small space than I would have thought possible -- Charles C. Mann, author of The Wizard and the ProphetImmensely readable. . . Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin provide a compelling narrative, stretching from the emergence of hominins from Earth's long history some 3 million years ago, to our position today, as a species with planetary reach * Nature *

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Book SynopsisContributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and placeTrade Review"Rich, diverse, and provocative meditations on place and identity formation... it builds on the previous scholarship on bodies, memory and place while also moving our understanding of this theme in a refreshing and engaging direction: toward the embodied, performed, and lived dimension of built environment, in both historical and contemporary perspectives." -Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia "Positioned in a growing anthropological and geographical literature that approaches social space as the product of movement, action, and experience, [and specifically] concerned with how built environments are realized as social spaces." -Stuart Rockefeller, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Embodied Placemaking: An Important Category of Critical Analysis Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman1. Placemaking and Embodied SpaceSetha Low2. Visualizing the Body PoliticSwati Chattopadhyay3. Inside the Magic Circle: Conjuring the Terrorist Enemy at the 2001 Group of Eight SummitEmanuela Guano4. Eating Ethnicity: Spatial Ethnography of Hyderabad House Restaurant on Devon Avenue, ChicagoArijit Sen5. Urban Boundaries, Religious Experience, and the North West London EruvJennifer A. Cousineau6. "Art, Memory, and the City" in Bogotá: Mapa Teatro's Artistic Encounters with Inhabited PlacesKaren E. Till7. Jewish Memory, Jewish Geography: Vienna before 1938Lisa Silverman

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Book SynopsisContributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and placeTrade Review"Rich, diverse, and provocative meditations on place and identity formation... it builds on the previous scholarship on bodies, memory and place while also moving our understanding of this theme in a refreshing and engaging direction: toward the embodied, performed, and lived dimension of built environment, in both historical and contemporary perspectives." -Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia "Positioned in a growing anthropological and geographical literature that approaches social space as the product of movement, action, and experience, [and specifically] concerned with how built environments are realized as social spaces." -Stuart Rockefeller, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Embodied Placemaking: An Important Category of Critical Analysis Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman1. Placemaking and Embodied SpaceSetha Low2. Visualizing the Body PoliticSwati Chattopadhyay3. Inside the Magic Circle: Conjuring the Terrorist Enemy at the 2001 Group of Eight SummitEmanuela Guano4. Eating Ethnicity: Spatial Ethnography of Hyderabad House Restaurant on Devon Avenue, ChicagoArijit Sen5. Urban Boundaries, Religious Experience, and the North West London EruvJennifer A. Cousineau6. "Art, Memory, and the City" in Bogotá: Mapa Teatro's Artistic Encounters with Inhabited PlacesKaren E. Till7. Jewish Memory, Jewish Geography: Vienna before 1938Lisa Silverman

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Book SynopsisContested Territory explores the ways in which Peru's early colonial landscapes were experienced and portrayed, especially by the Spanish conquerors but also by their conquered subjects.Trade Review"Scott's thesis of landscape creation is nuanced and sophisticated, convincing and compelling, one most befitting a geographer: she is very much interested in, and attuned to, regional as well as local variations. Few anthropologists or historians exhibit the sensitivities to space and scale that Scott demonstrates in piecing together her argument." —W. George Lovell, Queen's University“A fine and timely study on an important topic, this well researched and well written book will be an excellent addition to scholarship on colonial studies. . . . [Scott's] selection of texts is both original and exciting. She clearly expands the field of analysis of the complex workings of geography within the early Spanish colonial context.” —Beatriz Pastor, Dartmouth College"Heidi Scott’s eloquently-written, straight-forward, and original analysis perceptively highlights how cultural preconceptions, ambitions, and desires and shifting networks of power, agency, and interest shaped on-going negotiations over the perceptions, meaning, and use of landscape and geographical knowledge. Through social and political contextualization of a text’s origins and her emphasis on the mundane, she shows that Hispanic and Amerindian populations gave diverse and frequently conflicting meaning to Andean landscapes and territories. The book will, I predict, long serve as a model and inspiration to others interested in colonial history and geography, anthropology, and environmental studies." —Susan Ramirez, Texas Christian University“The author draws upon traditional sources, especially the well-known Relaciones Geogrįficas, to reflect upon the evolving perceptions of Peru's visual environment. Scott studies not only the few pictorial maps that exist for 16th-17th-century Peru, but also the far more abundant written descriptions of terrain and landscapes. . . . [R]esearchers and serious students of the colonial period will welcome this unique look at early Peru.” —Choice“This is a well-written, carefully argued, and thoughtful book, which provides new insights into early modern perceptions of the Andean landscape . . . Scott provides a careful geographical analysis of the materials to offer fresh perspectives on how the Spanish settlers and indigenous peoples gave diverse and often conflicting views about the rich Andean landscapes before them. Scott’s analysis is also not driven by an enthusiastic adherence to a particular theory; rather she uses her training as a geographer to re-examine the ways in which Spaniards and Andeans interacted with and experienced landscape, and how this shaped their portrayals of the natural environment. This is a very rich, intriguing contribution that has much to say to historians, anthropologists, scholars in literary studies and environmental specialists.” —English Historical Review

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Book SynopsisA uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical recordsTrade Review“Islands and Cultures is very important in its content, voice, and coverage. Each chapter is rich with new ideas, and every author brings a different kind of evidence to explore their focal place and peoples.”—Eleanor Sterling, director, Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology“This book seeks—and at times finds—the confluence where the waters of Western knowledge and Pacific indigenous knowledge meet. Humanity’s future path is there, a path by which our Mother the Earth and all of her descendants may yet thrive.”—Justice Sir Joe Williams, New Zealand Supreme Court“Islands and Cultures provides a unique contribution in demonstrating how the ideology, epistemology, and science of Polynesian worldviews are woven together to create and maintain the living universe.”—Joseph P. Brewer II, University of Kansas

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Book SynopsisA history of shells and the creatures that make them, revealing their outsized role in human affairs and what they have to tell us about the changing oceans.Trade Review"Will have you marveling at nature… Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation." -- 24 Books to Read this Summer - The New York Times Book Review"... Cynthia Barnett presents us with a glittering Wunderkammer for our age, a staggeringly varied history — scientific, cultural, philosophical and economic — of one of the most beloved and enduring natural objects on Earth: the seashell... “The Sound of the Sea” is a glorious history of shells and of those who have loved shells. It is a history of fascination and of shame. It stretches our capacity to absorb new knowledge. It is as complex, multichambered and beautiful as its subject, and if Barnett can awaken our sense of wonder, then perhaps there is hope for jump-starting our collective sense of responsibility toward the oceans and one another." -- Katherine Norbury - The Washington Post"“Seashells were money before coin, jewellery before gems, art before canvas,” says science writer Cynthia Barnett in her arresting meditation on shells and ocean history." -- Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks - Nature

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Book SynopsisWhen you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr. penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the U.S.-a Black Map that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays alongside traditional resources like census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience-all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that they create and defend. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the U.S. moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America's social, economic, and political landscape.Trade Review"A very smart new book by two culturally agile sociologists. . . . While Chocolate Cities is a story of inventive adaption, fierce survival and Black joy, it is also a history of trauma and communities under siege. This book stands as a witness to the investment of struggle, skill and resources it has taken to build and sustain chocolate cities. It is also a testament to the criminal failure of America to see and honor these essential points on the map." * Kalamazoo College/Praxus Center *“If Chocolate Cities were itself made of chocolate, it would come in a variety of forms: the central theses of the book like unsweetened cacao nibs, true and deep-flavored, long-lasting, challenging, surprising. Census data as chocolate bar, scored into bite-size forms. Musical references like the aroma of chocolate, wafting through the room. And the personal stories Robinson and Hunter delve into are multi-layered, well-baked undertakings.” * Memphis: The City Magazine *"Hunter and Robinson have set out a marker for thinking differently about black people in urban America." * PopMatters *"Hunter and Robinson offer an insight into the ways black folks have eked out a social world regardless of the racism, segregation, and brutality often concomitant in cities across the North American experience. ... For undergraduates, graduates, and any lay reader interested in black life in the US." * CHOICE *"A tour de force. Hunter and Robinson work assiduously and effectively to help readers to think about how seemingly disconnected ideas, themes, and practices should be understood together. The book paints a portrait of the complexity of black life, culture, politics, and interests." * American Journal of Sociology *"Chocolate Cities offers a critical contribution to urban sociology through its refreshing approach to the cultural geography of Black life. . . . Chocolate Cities makes compelling theoretical arguments that encourage scholars and practitioners to rethink the relationship between race, racism, culture, and space." * City & Community *"Hunter and Robinson’s Chocolate Cities gives sociology a needed shaking up and will influence the discipline for years to come. By putting Black agency at the center of their epistemology, Hunter and Robinson’s Chocolate Cities cuts across and shapes multiple sociological microcosms." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Good books enlighten and educate. Great books mess up your mind. Good books deepen many a field of study. Great books blow holes in many fields of study. Good books deliver a line of argument. Great books reframe and problematize a line of argument. Good books help you settle down and furnish your intellectual home. Great books set you wandering and teach you that you are homeless. Good books bring insight. Great books bring the funk. I could go on with this list of contrasts between good and great. Yes, Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson’ s Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life is a great book, yes it messed up my mind, and yes it does all those things great books do." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Everywhere below Canada PART I THE MAP 2. Dust Tracks on the Chocolate Map 3. Multiplying the South 4. Super Lou’s Chitlin’ Circuit PART II THE VILLAGE 5. The Blacker the Village, the Sweeter the Juice 6. The Two Ms. Johnsons 7. Making Negrotown PART III THE SOUL 8. When and Where the Spirit Moves You 9. How Brenda’s Baby Got California Love 10. Bounce to the Chocolate City Future PART IV THE POWER 11. The House That Jane Built 12. Mary, Dionne, and Alma 13. Leaving on a Jet Plane 14. Seeing like a Chocolate City Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution of cultures, to understand cultural difference, and to justify or condemn colonization, slavery and racial superiority. It examines the central part that ideas of environmental and biological determinism have played in theory, and describes how these ideas have served in different ways at different times as instruments of authority, identity and defiance. The book shows how powerful and problematic the invocation of nature can be.Table of ContentsForeword. 1. Introduction. 2. The Place of Nature. 3. Reappraising Nature. 4. Environment as Catastrophe. 5. Crossing Biological Boundaries. 6. The Ecological Frontier. 7. The Environmental Revolution. 8. Inventing Tropicality. 9. Colonizing Nature. Conclusion. Guide to Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisImaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce a narrative of Japan as a cultural community. Nobuko Toyosawa argues that the circulation spatial narratives allowed readers to imagine the broader conceptual space of Japan.Trade ReviewThe book is lavishly produced with beautiful four-color illustrations…A genuine contribution to our scholarship on early modern and modern Japanese intellectual history. Toyosawa’s innovative insights into the theme of landscape connect Tokugawa and Meiji-era thought in productive, exciting, and unexpected ways. -- Mark Ravina * Journal of Japanese Studies *Toyosawa analyzes the influential works of several early-modern and modern Japanese scholar-writers that exemplify how the natural landscape has long been a source of power and as a defining core of Japanese identity. -- Rex J. Rowley * Historical Geography *

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Book SynopsisThe spread of Christianity is arguably humanity’s most consequential historical epic. Christianity tells the tale through more than a hundred beautiful color maps and illustrations depicting the journey of Jesus Christ’s followers from Judea to Constantine’s Rome, wider Europe, and today’s world of two billion Christians practicing in every land.Trade ReviewChristianity has a geography as well as a history, and this book embraces both… These maps are full of detail and give a clear and integrated visual picture of the events described…The atlas is elegantly produced on glossy pages that make it attractive and readable. -- John Binns * Church Times *Informative to read and attractive to look at. -- Lucy Beckett * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisHistories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro Yamamoto contends that the transformation of the islands from ambiguous border zones emerged out of multilateral power relations. Demarcating Japan shows the crucial role of nonstate actors in formulating a territory.

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Book SynopsisSpans archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire, and no more than two standard scales (1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000) are used to represent most regions. This title provides information about every place or feature in the Barrington Atlas.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2000 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Multivolume Reference Work in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers "[The Barrington Atlas] is the best geography of the ancient world ever achieved... [I]t reveals the world inhabited or reached by the Greeks and Romans from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 640 in thrilling detail, and a color code lets us track changes through 16 centuries. The collective learning poured into this project is almost intimidating to contemplate, and the fact that it could be completed testifies to extraordinary planning, dedication and courage... [T]he cartography is luminous, the printing superb and the binding strong and supple... [T]his magnificent book is likely to become a powerful engine of learning and discovery for many years."--D.J.R. Bruckner, New York Times Book Review "I doubt that it will ever be superseded... [T]he clarity and sheer beauty of the maps in the Barrington Atlas, for which Princeton University Press and the printers in Palladio's Vicenza deserve the highest credit and praise, make the main volume a joy to handle. The fold-out of the entire ancient Mediterranean world, Map 1 'Mare Internum,' is to die for... [T]his remarkable atlas ... has made a major contribution to re-establishing cartography as one of the basic sub-disciplines within classical studies."--Paul Cartledge, Times Higher Education Supplement "This atlas is an indispensable tool for historians concerned with ancient times. But it is also a source of great pleasure for the amateur, the lover of literature."--Bernard Knox, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Beautifully produced with an exquisite combination of scholarly precision and the highest level of cartographic art, this atlas is one of the greatest achievements in 20th-century Greek and Roman scholarship--and it probably will never be superseded."--Publishers Weekly "[An] essential tool for anyone interested in classical antiquity... It provides, for the first time in recent history, a single bound volume that maps the entire classical world... Superbly edited."--Library Journal ("Best Reference Sources, 2000") "[A] wonderful guide to the wordless lessons of antiquity. Everyone who studies Greece and Rome owes [the makers of the Barrington Atlas] a personal debt."--Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, naming the Barrington Atlas "My Book of the Decade" in the Globe and Mail (2009) "[A] remarkable achievement... This unique resource is the most comprehensive atlas published on ancient Greece and Rome."--Booklist "[A] vast achievement... Richard Talbert can be proud of his editorship: the collective effort, academic and technical, that has gone into the realisation of this gigantic project ... almost defies the imagination. It is even more impressive in that his teams had to work virtually from scratch. Their chief goal was to fill a notorious gap, and they have done so with exemplary skill."--Peter Green, London Review of Books "The Barrington Atlas is a major contribution to scholarship, extensive in scale, reliable and up to date, and so laid out as to be really helpful to the user."--Jasper Griffin, New York Review of Books "[N]o decent academic or public library should be without this marvelous work... [A] magnificent achievement."--Guy Halsall, New Scientist "[A] definitive work."--Peter Jones, BBC History "This atlas will be indispensable to scholars in classical studies. My only caution is that, at eight pounds, a sturdy coffee table is required for its use."--Judith A. Tyner, Geographical Review

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a compendium of the rich archeological and literary evidence on the Iranian world in its larger sense, comprising part of what is now Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan as well as Iran proper.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Abbreviations, pg. vii*Editor's introduction, pg. xv*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter I. Bactria, Balkh, and Tukharistan, pg. 6*Chapter II. Marw and the Course of the Murghab, pg. 35*Chapter III. Harat and the Course of the ETAari Rud, pg. 47*Chapter IV. Sistan, the Southern Part of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, pg. 64*Chapter V. Khurasan, pg. 87*Chapter VI. Qumis And Gurgan, pg. 112*Chapter VII. Ray and Hamadan, pg. 121*Chapter VIII. Quhistan, Kirman, And Makran, pg. 133*Chapter IX. Fars, pg. 148*Chapter CHI. Isfahan, Kashan, And Qum, pg. 169*Chapter XI. Luristan And Khuzistan, pg. 180*Chapter XII. Kurdistan And Mesopotamia, pg. 195*Chapter XIII. The Mountains North Of Hamadan, pg. 207*Chapter XIV. Azerbaijan and Armenia, pg. 214*Chapter XV. Gilan And Mazandaran, pg. 230*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 243*INDEX, pg. 267

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Book SynopsisThe Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past and different types of evidence to justify their actions. These controversies serve as case studies, as William Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that extends the span of conventional historical research.Trade ReviewIn this unorthodox and intriguing book, William Turkel uses the Chilcotin Plateau, an arid and sparsely settled region of west-central British Columbia, to ask a series of questions about how we acquire and use knowledge of the past.... This is an engaging and rewarding book. Like much recent work in British Columbia history, it writes First Nations people into the general history of the province, a hugely important project for North American histroy more generally.An amalgam of the material and the representational, the natural and the human, place allows Turkel to move some way toward transcending the old human-environment dichotomy that bedevils the writing of environmental history. -- James Murton * Environmental History Journal, Volume 12, Number 4 *Table of ContentsForeword: Putting Things in Their Place / Graeme WynnPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Deep Time in the Present1 Fish Lake2 Prosperity GoldPart 2: The Horizon of Experience3 Mackenzie4 Grease TrailsPart 3: Shadowed Ground5 Converging towards “Banshee”6 Chilcotin WarAfterwordAppendicesGlossary; Notes; Toponymic Index; General Index

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Book SynopsisDescribes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. This book shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms.Trade ReviewTrial lawyers attending on Aboriginal claims will find this text usefully covers the history from 1500 forward, showing the changes from an Indigenous populated land to one organized on European terms. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister, Issue No.89 *This is a welcome antidote to the simplistic renderings of early Canadian history we are exposed to in high school social studies courses, political speeches and CBC mini-series. […] Harris has crafted a deeply insightful account of the history of what would become Canada. […] The Reluctant Land will be used in historical geography courses for many years to come – but it’s more than that, because Harris set himself the task of writing a scholarly book accessible to the general reader. […] Encountering The Reluctant Land is like listening to a series of articulate public lectures, organized on a regional basis, allowing for an exploration of each part of the country, in turn. -- Raymon Torchinsky * BC Bookworld, Vol.23, No.1, Spring 2009 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Lifeworlds, circa 15002 The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-16323 Acadia and Canada4 The Continental Interior, 1632-17505 Creating and Bounding British North America6 Newfoundland7 The Maritimes8 Lower Canada9 Upper Canada10 The Northwestern Interior, 1760-187011 British Columbia12 Confederation and the Pattern of CanadaIndex

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Book SynopsisDescribes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the 15th century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. This work shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space.Trade ReviewTrial lawyers attending on Aboriginal claims will find this text usefully covers the history from 1500 forward, showing the changes from an Indigenous populated land to one organized on European terms. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister, Issue No.89 *This is a welcome antidote to the simplistic renderings of early Canadian history we are exposed to in high school social studies courses, political speeches and CBC mini-series. […] Harris has crafted a deeply insightful account of the history of what would become Canada. […] The Reluctant Land will be used in historical geography courses for many years to come – but it’s more than that, because Harris set himself the task of writing a scholarly book accessible to the general reader. […] Encountering The Reluctant Land is like listening to a series of articulate public lectures, organized on a regional basis, allowing for an exploration of each part of the country, in turn. -- Raymon Torchinsky * BC Bookworld, Vol.23, No.1, Spring 2009 *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Lifeworlds, circa 15002 The Northwestern Atlantic, 1497-16323 Acadia and Canada4 The Continental Interior, 1632-17505 Creating and Bounding British North America6 Newfoundland7 The Maritimes8 Lower Canada9 Upper Canada10 The Northwestern Interior, 1760-187011 British Columbia12 Confederation and the Pattern of CanadaIndex

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Book SynopsisRethinking the Great White North explores the troubling side of the images of whiteness and wilderness that are so central to Canadian national identity.Trade ReviewInnovative...the book is also particularly stimulating in its attempt to read urban geographies against and/or as part of Canada's constitutive interaction with “nature.” -- Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 13 No. 3, Winter 2012 *Is the issue race or whiteness? Nature or wilderness? The best papers in this collection engage the tensions between key concepts, offering not only theoretically engaged analyses of the Canadian situation but also seeking to advance conceptual understanding of race or whiteness and nature or wilderness. -- Shannon Stunden Bower, University of Alberta * The Goose, Issue 10, 2012 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where Is the Great White North? Spatializing History, Historicizing Whiteness / Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, and Audrey KobayashiPart 1: Identity and Knowledge1 “A Phantasy in White in a World That Is Dead”: Grey Owl and the Whiteness of Surrogacy / Bruce Erickson2 Indigenous Knowledge and the History of Science, Race, and Colonial Authority in Northern Canada / Stephen Bocking3 Cap Rouge Remembered? Whiteness, Scenery, and Memory in Cape Breton Highlands National Park / Catriona SandilandsPart 2: City Spaces4 The “Occult Relation between Man and the Vegetable”: Transcendentalism, Immigrants, and Park Planning in Toronto, c. 1900 / Phillip Gordon Mackintosh5 SARS and Service Work: Infectious Disease and Racialization in Toronto / Claire Major and Roger Keil6 Shimmering White Kelowna and the Examination of Painless White Privilege in the Hinterland of British Columbia / Luis L.M. Aguiar and Tina I.L. MartenPart 3: Arctic Journeys7 Inscription, Innocence, and Invisibility: Early Contributions to the Discursive Formation of the North in Samuel Hearne’s A Journey to the Northern Ocean / Richard Milligan and Tyler McCreary8 Copper Stories: Imaginative Geographies and Material Orderings of the Central Canadian Arctic / Emilie CameronPart 4: Native Land9 Temagami’s Tangled Wild: The Making of Race, Nature, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Ontario / Jocelyn Thorpe10 Resolving “the Indian Land Question”? Racial Rule and Reconciliation in British Columbia / Brian Egan11 Changing Land Tenure, Defining Subjects: Neo-Liberalism and Property Regimes on Native Reserves / Jessica Dempsey, Kevin Gould, and Juanita SundbergInterlocationsExtremity: Theorizing from the Margins / Kay AndersonColonization: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly / Sherene H. RazackNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis text traces the interaction between humans and the Canadian landscape, from the arrival of the first peoples to our current environmental crisis.Trade ReviewMacDowell…mounts an impressive summary of how Canadian history has been rethought from an environment perspective over the last 40 years. She demonstrates this with a copiously illustrated and well-referenced exploration of the evolution of Canada’s landscape over millennia…a very accessible text for students and general readers, with excellent maps, illustrations, information boxes, and rich bibliographies for each chapter. Highly recommended. -- B. Osborne, Queen's University at Kingston * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Aboriginal Peoples and Settlers1 Encountering a New Land2 Settling the Land and Transforming the “Wilderness”Part 2: Industrialism, Reform, and Infrastructure3 Early Cities and Urban Reform4 The Conservation Movement5 Mining Resources6 Cars, Consumerism, and SuburbsPart 3: Harnessing Nature, Harming Nature7 Changing Energy Regimes8 Water9 The Contested World of Food and AgriculturePart 4: The Environmental Era10 The Environmental Movement and Public Policy11 Parks and Wildlife12 Coastal Fisheries13 The North and Climate ChangeConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the canoe and its role in Canadian culture, nature, and colonial past.Trade ReviewCanoe nation explores how the canoe is not only an important object of Canada’s understanding of itself as a nation, but also a vital and changing practice that is key to historically specific configurations of economics, landscapes, and modes of governance and citizenship. Ranging from the fur trade to celebrity wilderness paddling and tracing complex connections among economic, colonial, pedagogical, recreational, and environmental desires, Erickson’s brilliantly original analysis shows that the canoe is, quite literally, a vehicle of power in the Canadian national landscape. -- Catriona Sandilands, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Canoeing MattersIntroduction: Canoes and the Nature of Canada1 Pedagogical Canoes: “Forced Intimacy,” Suffering, and Remembering National History2 I Fish, Therefore I Am: Recreational Canoeing and Wilderness Travel at the Turn of the Century3 Regimes of Whiteness: Wilderness and the Production of Abstract Space from Seton to Grey Owl4 Recreational Nationalism: Canoeing as Political ActivismConclusion: Future Politics and the Production of the NationNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Jiayan Zhang consults early records of catastrophic water events and explores their role in shaping Jianghan society in the Qing and Republican periods. In a constantly shifting environment, the peasants of Jianghan were forced to adapt their farming methods; cooperate on complex projects like dike building; and even organize social structures, tenancy arrangements, and lifestyles around the pressure and uncertainty of their environment. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan Plain's volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Changes in the Environment of the Jianghan Plain2 Water Calamities and the Management of the Dike Systems3 The Dike Systems and the Jianghan Economy4 Agriculture, Commercialization, and Environmental Adaptability5 Tenancy and Environment6 Fisheries and the Peasant Economy7 A Water-Rich Society: Socio-Economic Life in a Marshy KingdomConclusionAppendix: The Yield of Rice in the Jianghan Plain in the Qing and the RepublicGlossary; Notes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisIt was a megaproject half a century in the making -- a technological and engineering marvel that stands as one of the most ambitious borderlands undertakings ever embarked upon by two countries. The planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project is one of the defining episodes in North American history.The project began with transnational negotiations that spanned two world wars and the formative years of the Cold War and included a failed attempt to construct an all-Canadian seaway, which was scuttled by US national security fears. Once an agreement was reached, the massive engineering and construction operation began, as did the efforts to move people and infrastructure away from the thousands of acres of land that would soon be flooded.Negotiating a River looks at the profound impacts of this megaproject, from the complex diplomatic negotiations, political manoeuvring, and environmental diplomacy to the implications on national identitieTable of ContentsForeword: National Dreams / Graeme WynnIntroduction: River to SeawayPart 1: Negotiating1 Accords and Discords2 Watershed Decisions3 Caught between Two FiresPart 2: Building4 Fluid Relations5 Lost Villages6 Flowing ForwardConclusion: To the Heart of the ContinentNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this beautifully crafted and written volume, Canada’s preeminent historical geographer traces how Canada’s geographical limitations have shaped the nature of its settler societies – from first contacts, to dispossession, to our current age of reconciliation.Trade ReviewA Bounded Land is a guided tour through the work of a brilliant, insightful, and compassionate mind and body of work. -- James Murton * The Canadian Historical Review *This is the most informative, penetrating and best-written account that I have read on the topic. -- Jim Reynolds * The Advocate *A Bounded Land brings new dimensions and reflections to the work of Cole Harris as a scholar. The themes turn on settlement, colonization, dispossession, re-settlement, and the concluding theme throws light on Indigenous displacement and theories of empire and decolonization. -- Barry Gough * The Ormsby Review *Cole Harris has produced an eloquent compilation of work on settler colonialism in Canada. -- Ken Favrholdt, Kamloops, BC * BC Studies, Issue 209 *There is a lot packed into this book ... [It] highlights the theoretical and practical policies that underwrote colonialism. In doing so, it helps to explain how the history of dispossession became inseparable from the rise of nation-states such as Canada. -- Benjamin Hoy * The Canadian Journal of History *It is to Harris’s credit that the innovative assembly of spatial and social vignettes in A Bounded Land prompts our reflection on Indigenous and settler relations in colonial Canada. -- Grace Keng, Pennsylvania State University * University of Toronto Quarterly *Overall, this book is not only a fitting capstone to an extroardinary career, but also an excellent primer for understanding Canada's settler colonial past. -- Ryan Hall, Colgate University * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Early EncountersThe Fraser Canyon EncounteredImagining and Claiming the LandVoices of Smallpox around the Strait of GeorgiaPart 2: Early SettlementsAcadia: Settling the MarshlandsOf Poverty and Helplessness in Petite-NationThe Settlement of Mono TownshipPart 3: The Architecture of SettlementEuropean Beginnings in the Northwest AtlanticThe Overseas Simplification of EuropeCreating Place in Early CanadaPart 4: Reconfiguring British ColumbiaThe Making of the Lower MainlandThe Struggle with DistanceIndigenous SpacePart 5: Theorizing Settler ColonialismMaking an Immigrant SocietyHow Did Colonialism Dispossess?Postscript: The Boundaries of Settler ColonialismNotes and Further Readings; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Government of Natural Resources explores scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation until the eve of the Second World War. Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence within the state, but they play an integral role.At the turn of the twentieth century, the provincial government created geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services. These new services drew from recently established university technical programs to amass a corps of skilled employees to support their mission: exploiting resources and occupying territory. Stéphane Castonguay traces the history of mining, logging, hunting, fishing, and agriculture in Quebec to reveal how territorial and environmental transformations thus became a tool of government. By helping to define and shape such interventions, scientific activity contributed to state formation and expanded administrative capacity. The lessons that this thoughtful reconceptualization of resource Trade ReviewThe author provides great detail on the history of technical and scientific advances in the four natural resource areas of Quebec from 1867 to 1939. -- J. Organ, emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Choice Connect *In meticulously detailed chapters devoted to the development of mining, forestry, wildlife conservation, and agriculture, Casonguay shows how Quebec took control of its resources. -- Geoff White * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsForeword: Science in Action / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 The Administrative Capacities of the Quebec State: Specialized Personnel and Technoscientific Interventions2 The Invention of a Mining Space: Geological Exploration and Mineralogical Knowledge3 Soil Classification and Separation of Forest and Colonization Areas: Scientific Forestry and Reforestation4 Surveillance and Improvement of Fish and Game Territories: Conservation of Wildlife Resources5 Regionalization and Specialization of Agricultural Production: Disseminating Agronomic KnowledgeConclusion: Knowledge, Power, and TerritoryAppendix: Identification of Technoscientific Activities in the Public Accounts (1896–1940)Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisMuskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. Making Muskoka traces the evolution of the region from 1870 to 1920. Over this period, settler colonialism upended Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee communities, but the land was unsuited to farming, and within the first generation of resettlement, tourism became an integral feature of life. Andrew Watson considers issues such as rural identity, tensions between large- and household-scale logging operations, and the dramatic effects of consumer culture and the global shift toward fossil fuels on settlers' ability to control the tourism economy after 1900. Making Muskoka uncovers the lived experience of rural communities shaped by tourism at a time when sustainable opportunities for a sedentary life were few on the Canadian Shield, and reveals the consequences for those living there year-round.Trade Review"… Making Muskoka is pertinent reading for those studying the impacts of tourism on landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them." -- Matthew Hatvany, Laval University * Canadian Geographies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Rural Identity and Resettlement of the Canadian Shield, 1860–802 Indigenous Identity, Settler Colonialism, and Tourism, 1850–19203 Rural Identity and Tourism, 1870–19004 The Promise of Wood-Resource Harvesting, 1870–19205 Fossil Fuels, Consumer Culture, and the Tourism Economy, 1900–20ConclusionAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisValley of Opportunity recreates an age when Indians, colonists, and post-Revolutionary settlers embraced a similar dream: to create a successful economy in the rural hinterland of the middle colonies. Peter C. Mancall draws on abundant evidence from seldom-used archives in the region, as well as from libraries on both sides of the Atlantic, to reconstruct their daily economic life.The author describes the varied economic transformations that took place in the area, considering these changes from an environmental as well as an economic standpoint. He shows how different groups of people perceived the resources of the region and how their perceptions shaped settlement patterns, land use, and the formation of commercial networks. Ultimately, each of the three peoples looked beyond the mountains that set the boundaries of their physical world and tried to establish ties to the larger commercial network that linked North America to Europe.Mancall offers connections bTrade ReviewValley of Opportunity is an important book. Like the region it analyzes, it moves across boundaries, providing new vistas while connecting arbitrarily divided terrains. * Journal of American History *Mancall merits commendation for his attention to ecological as well as economic revolutions, his incorporation of Indians into the transition question, and his reminder that conquest left a continental legacy. * Western Historical Quarterly *Mancall shows how valley residents tied themselves into the commercial network that linked North America to Europe. Some people prospered in this valley of opportunity, many did not, and their fates often were determined less by their own endeavors than by the forces of the Atlantic economy that reached into their world. * Ethnohistory *Mancall's central argument is that the 'economic culture’ of the backcountry was shaped by a complex interaction of physical environ- ments, local societies, and powerful developers—an encounter decided on the terms of the latter group, the agents of the greater Atlantic economy. Mancall’s is a sober and sobering thesis, underscoring the power of capital on the eighteenth-century frontier. * William and Mary Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Physical World 2. The Susquehanna Indians 3. Indian-Colonist Trade 4. The Collapse of Intercultural Trade 5. The Colonists' Economy 6. The War in the Valley 7. Postwar Economic Development Conclusion: The Economic Culture of the Revolutionary BackcountryAppendix Index

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Book SynopsisEpoch-making political events are often remembered for their spatial markers: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the storming of the Bastille, the occupation of Tiananmen Square. Until recently, however, political theory has overlooked the power of place...Trade ReviewIn this thoughtful and engaging book, Margaret Kohn makes the case that space is an important mechanism of social power. With Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, and Henri Lefebvre (among others), she agrees that space can function to reproduce and to reinforce relations of domination. Yet, she emphasizes, it also can play a transformative political role, enabling and encouraging the oppressed to challenge and to change social relations of power.... How can we restructure space in ways that disrupt its non-or antidemocratic effects.' That Radical Space helps raise such questions is one of its principal contributions to ongoing debates about democratic politics and popular resistance to power. -- Clarissa Rile Hayward * Perspectives on Politics *Although political theorists have long shared the intuition of a crucial relationship between space and democracy, space has remained under-theorized in political theory. Responding to this omission, Margaret Kohn argues that spatial configurations serve as powerful social forces that can naturalize social divisions or call them into question.... Theorists engaged not only in the debates over the past and future of democracy, but also those exploring the role of deterritorialization in the age of global integration will find her book insightful and provocative. -- Noam Lupu * Foundations of Political Theory Books *To the present day, visitors to Italy can find houses of the people in the industrial suburbs of Italian cities.... Kohn argues that these 'case del popolo' marked a new and promising approach towards socialism, one that was at once democratic and spontaneous. * Choice *I like this book. Its concise and incisive argument on space and power is usefully pinned down in the specific cases it reviews. It is well written throughout, and carries a sense of hope seldom found in writing on space today, even in the work of Marxist geographers such as David Harvey or Edward Soja. It has a distinctly European intellectual quality in its scrutiny of the rhizomatic shifts of the urban lifeworld, and says much which remains relevant in today's desperate political climate. -- Malcolm Miles * H-Urban Review *Table of ContentsSpace and politics; The bourgeois public sphere; The disciplinary factory; The co-operative movement; The house of the people; The chamber of labour; Municipalism - the legacy of localism; Conclusion; Postscript - the local in an age of globalization.

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Book Synopsis How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between Native peoples and Euro-American empires that developed cartographic processes and culturally specific maps, which in turn reflected encounter and conflict between settler states and indigenous peoples. Bernstein explores the cartographic creation of the Trans-Mississippi West through an interdisciplinary methodology in geography and history.He shows how the Pawnees and the Iowas—wedged between powerful Osages, Sioux, the horse- and captive-rich Comanche Empire, French fur traders, Spanish merchants, and American Indian agents and explorers—devised strategies of survivance and diplomacy to retain autonomy during this era.TTrade Review"The book's well-sourced revisionist examination of history through the eyes of both Euro- and Native Americans, and the influence of indigenous knowledge on cartography, is compelling, and thus it is a worthy addition to any historical examination of the Trans-Mississippi West."—Brian Croft, Nebraska History"Bernstein provides an interesting read on the importance of cartography and the cultural construction of the Trans-Mississippi West that is well worth reading for historians, cartographers, and cultural geographers, specialists and nonspecialists alike."—Ellen R. Hansen, Kansas History"David Bernstein's book adds fresh nuance to our understanding of the American West, particularly in regard to the creation of maps and boundaries."—Matthew K. Guske, Chronicles of Oklahoma"By examining the motives and process of mapmaking, Bernstein restores historical agency to the Pawnee and other tribes."—R. Dorman, Choice"Mapping does not stop. We find today the same kind of negotiated, contested, politically charged mapping process happening around the world as Bernstein finds in the nineteenth-century American West. Thus, another important contribution of Bernstein's work is its potential to shape how we think about and engage in mapping today."—John Krygier, South Dakota History"Bernstein's interesting and scholarly study discusses how the westward movement made maps necessary administrative mechanisms."—Lynn Bueling, Roundup Magazine"David Bernstein's How the West Was Drawn offers an important reassessment of the cartographic history of the American West, exploring how Plains Indians—specifically, Iowas, Pawnees, and Lakotas participated in the mapping and remapping of the region in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."—Alessandra Link, Environmental History"Throughout the volume, Bernstein not only makes a convincing argument, but he also corrects some of the problematic ideas scholars have advanced or embraced over the years. This is a well-researched book. The author draws from manuscript sources at the Kansas Historical Society, the Missouri History Museum, the National Archives, and the Newberry Library, among other repositories, not to mention newspapers, government documents, Native American records, and other published primary sources. . . . In addition, it would be a mistake not to mention and commend the book’s excellent selection of 46 map images. . . . Bernstein does an excellent job integrating these maps into his analysis and the University of Nebraska Press should be commended for their investment in this incredible level of illustration. This is a book that will work well in graduate seminars on Native American history, the history of the antebellum U.S., the history of cartography, and colonialism. Anyone interested in space and place in the North America would do well to read this book."—Evan Rothera, Reviews in History"Bernstein provides important tools for thinking about maps in complex ways. He carefully draws attention to the multifaceted processes and power involved in their construction, which, in turn, opens up many avenues for understanding how and why U.S. expansion developed as it did."—Rebekah M. K. Mergenthal, Annals of Iowa"Bernstein not only engages the historiography of Native America and cartography, but also joins a growing corpus that reassesses U.S. expansion from the point of view of those on the ground who would subvert and offer contingencies to the path of empire. Bernstein draws these insights from a well executed study centered around the Pawnees of the early nineteenth century who occupied the region that would become the states of Kansas and Nebraska."—Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Living in Indian Country 1. Constructing Indian Country 2. Sharitarish and the Possibility of Treaties 3. Nonparticipatory Mapping Part 2: The Rise and Fall of “Indian Country” 4. The Cultural Construction of “Indian Country” 5. Science and the Destruction of “Indian Country” Part 3: Reclaiming Indian Country 6. The Metaphysics of Indian Naming Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across the "islandologies" of different cultures and argues for a world of islands.Trade Review"Islandology is one of the most remarkable books you will read in a long time and is thoroughly recommended to all who wish to inquire into how geography is enmeshed in the human imagination" -- Robert J. Mayhew * Journal of Historical Geography *"Islandology is a compendium, a word and image album, a guide bleu, and a piece of theory all rolled into one. In its dense and playful disposition of islandological lexemes, examples, paradigms, facts, language games, the book is a voracious post modernist cosmography. Shell, a cosmographer for the Internet era, exposes a poignant transcendental restlessness in his conceptual and literary mappings of the island in the imaginary of modernity. Such a generous study in critical topography belongs alongside Lefebvre, Serres and Yi-Fu Tuan in creating new horizons for the study of place and landscape across many fields and disciplines." -- Jonathan Bordo"Islandology is one of those rare works that perfectly reflects its object of study. Instead of being a contribution to a particular field of research, it is an island of scholarship that allows us to chart submerged connections among such fields as cultural geography, literary analysis, and socio-political inquiry." -- Peter Fenves

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Book SynopsisBridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of U.S. history.Trade Review"Rendering Nature collects the work of exemplary scholars working at the nexus of the vibrant fields of American studies and environmental history: simultaneously collaborative and ambitious." * Andrew Isenberg, author of Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 *Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Nature-Culture Paradox —Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young PART I. ANIMALS Chapter 2. Beasts of the Southern Wild: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States —Thomas G. Andrews Chapter 3. Stuffed: Nature and Science on Display John Herron Chapter 4. Digit's Legacy: Reconsidering the Human-Nature Encounter in a Global World —Marguerite S. Shaffer PART II. BODIES Chapter 5. The Gulick Family and the Nature of Adolescence —Susan A. Miller Chapter 6. Children of Light: The Nature and Culture of Suntanning —Catherine Cocks Chapter 7. Dr. Spock Is Worried: Visual Media and the Emotional History of American Environmentalism —Finis Dunaway PART III. PLACES Chapter 8. Prototyping Natures: Technology, Labor, and Art on Atomic Frontiers —Andrew Kirk Chapter 9. River Rats in the Archive: The Colorado River and the Nature of Texts —Annie Gilbert Coleman Chapter 10. Rocks of Ages: The Decadent Desert and Sepulchral Time —Frieda Knobloch PART IV. POLITICS Chapter 11. Winning the War at Manzanar: Environmental Patriotism and the Japanese American Incarceration —Connie Y. Chiang Chapter 12. Unthinkable Visibility: Pigs, Pork, and the Spectacle of Killing and Meat —Brett Mizelle Chapter 13. "Bring Tent": The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Public Nature —Phoebe S. K. Young Notes List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCritically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history.“Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily’s strategic location has tempted Roman emperors, French princes, and Spanish kings. The subsequent struggles to conquer and keep it have played crucial roles in the rise and fall of the world’s most powerful dynasties.Yet Sicily has often been little more than a footnote in books about other empires. John Julius Norwich’s engrossing narrative is the first to knit together all of the colorful strands of Sicilian history into a single comprehensive study. Here is a vivid, erudite, page-turning chronicle of an island and the remarkable kings, queens, an

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