Human geography Books
Taylor & Francis Critical Animal Geographies
Book SynopsisCritical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animalsâ lived experience and human-animal encounter. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, post-colonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life â human and not â violate, constrain, and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes â violence, death, life, autonomy â of human-animal encounters. Equally, the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism, racism, colonialism, and so on. In doing so, the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up wiTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction PART I: POLITICS Chapter 2. Animal geographies, anarchist praxis and critical animal studies Chapter 3. Practice as theory: learning from food activism and performative protestChapter 4. Pleasure, pain and place: ag-gag, crush videos, and animal bodies on displayPART II: INTERSECTIONS Chapter 5. Wildspace: the cage, the supermax, & the zoo Chapter 6. Commodification, violence and the making of workers and ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras Chapter 7. Race, space, and wildlife management Chapter 8. Pit bulls, slavery, and whiteness in the mid- to late- nineteenth century US: geographical trajectories; primary sources PART III: HIERARCHIES Chapter 9. Coyotes in the city: gastro-ethical encounters in a more-than-human world Chapter 10. Livelier livelihoods: animal and human collaboration on the farm Chapter 11. En-listing life: red is the color of threatened species lists Chapter 12. Doing critical animal geographies: future directions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and Development
Book SynopsisThis revised and updated third edition of Gender and Development provides a concise, accessible introduction to gender and development issues in the developing world and in the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe. The nine chapters include discussions on: changes in theoretical approaches, gender complexities and the Sustainable Development Goals; social and biological reproduction including changing attitudes to family planning; variation in education and access to housing; differences in health and violence at major life stages for women and men; natural disasters, climate change and declining natural resources; and gender roles in rural and urban areas. There is also enhanced coverage of topics such as global trade, sport as a development tool, masculinities and sustainable agriculture. Maps and statistics have been updated throughout and their coverage widened. New case studies have been added on Bangladesh, violence in Peru and India, and&nbsTable of ContentsList of plates. List of figures. List of tables. List of boxes. Acknowledgements.1 Introduction: gender is a development issue 2 Demography 3 Reproduction 4 Gender, health and violence 5 Gender and environment 6 Gender in rural areas 7 Gender in urban areas 8 Globalization and changing patterns of economic activity 9 How far have we come?References. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Water Sustainability
Book SynopsisUsing the latest mapping techniques, J.A.A. Jones, Chair of the IGU Commission for Water Sustainability, examines water availability, the impact of climate change and the problems created for water management worldwide as well as possible solutions.Water Sustainability: A Global Perspective is one of the first textbook to meld the physical and human aspects affecting the world''s water resources. Part One outlines the challenges and investigates the human factors: population growth; urbanization and pollution; the commercialization of water, including globalization and privatization; and the impacts of war, terrorism and the credit crunch. Part Two examines the physical aspects: the restless water cycle, the impact of past and future climate change and the problems change and unreliability create for water management. Part Three discusses current and future solutions including improved efficiency and water treatment systems, desalinatiTrade Review"This book will represent a valuable contribution to the academic literature and will be invaluable to many an undergraduate student addressing these key concepts and themes" – Beverley Todd, Circulation "This excellent book will be an indispensable resource for students of water resources and its related disciplines. Chapters conclude with possible discussion topics, and as well as being extensively indexed and referenced throughout, the reader is directed to further academic and popular texts as well as webbased resources." – Hywel Griffiths, Aberystwyth University, AreaTable of Contents1. A looming crisis Part I Status and challenges 2. Rising demand and dwindling per capita resources 3. Water and poverty 4. Governance and finance 5. Pollution and water-related disease 6. Water, land and wildlife 7. Dams and diversions 8. Trading water - real and virtual 9. Water, war and terrorism 10. The threat of global warming Part II Nature's resources 11. The restless water cycle 12. Shrinking freshwater stores Part III Towards sustainability 13. Cutting demand 14. Increasing supplies 15. Cleaning up and protecting the aquatic environment 16. Using seawater 17. Controlling the weather 18. Improved monitoring and data management 19. Improving prediction and risk assessment 20. Improving management and justice 21. Aid for the developing world Conclusions 22. Is sustainability achievable?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hunger and Markets: World Hunger Series
Book SynopsisHunger and Markets is the third volume of the UN World Food Programme's World Hunger Series - created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and productivity by reducing both the quality and the quantity of their food intake. Hunger and Markets explores the complex and multifaceted interactions between the availability of and access to food and the operations of markets. The structure and dynamics of food markets and the threats and opportunities markets generate are crucial for the access to food for billions of people. Markets are also critical in averting or mitigating food shortages and hunger by adjusting to shocks, reducing vulnerability and coping with crises. Whether markets help or harm the hungry poor is a function of markets' institutions, infrastructure and policies. This volume analyzes the workings of markets in order to identify the sources of market failures in addressing hunger and malnutrition, and to highlight the ways in which they can be improved. The report sets out the ways in which programme design and policy formulation can build on the strengths of markets to prevent possible negative effects, and will be essential reading for all those involved in the fight against world hunger. Published with World Food ProgrammeTable of ContentsPart I: Setting the Stage 1. Hunger 2. Markets 3. High Food Prices: Trends, Causes and Impacts Part II: Analysis 4. Households, Hunger and Markets 5. Access to Markets 6 .Availability of and Access to Nutritious Food 7. Vulnerability, Risk and Markets 8. Markets in Emergencies Part III: Actions and the Way Forward 9. Making Markets Work for the Hungry Poor and Supplementing Them Where Necessary 10. The Way Forward: Ten Priority Actions to Help Markets Break the Hunger-Poverty Trap Part IV: Resource Compendium Notes Part V: Annexes
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Cambridge University Press The Mediterranean City in Transition
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Cambridge University Press Islands Islanders the WorldFiji The Colonial and Postcolonial Experience of Eastern Fiji Cambridge Human Geography
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Cambridge University Press Land Custom and Practice in the South Pacific
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Cambridge University Press Population and Metropolis The Demography of London 15801650 12 Cambridge Geographical Studies Series Number 12
Book SynopsisThis is a book about the population of London during the early modern period and a detailed book about the population of a European metropolitan city at that time. Much is now known about the historical demography of rural England, but very little is understood about the larger towns and cities. Roger Finlay applies new techniques in historical demography, principally family reconstitution and aggregative analysis of parish registers, to study the growth of population in London. He shows that parish registers are as reliable for the analysis of population trends in London as in rural England. The death rate was much higher in London than in the countryside, and this difference was not offset by a markedly higher birth rate, so the population would have declined but for migration. There were striking variations in both fertility and mortality between contrasting social areas of London.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The magnet of the metropolis; 2. The accuracy of the London parish registers; 3. The general growth of population in London; 4. London social structure in 1638; 5. The measurement of mortality rates; 6. The effect of plague on mortality experience; 7. Marriage and fertility; 8. Population and metropolis.
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Cambridge University Press Housing the State and the Poor Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities 50 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 50
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Cambridge University Press Empiricism and Geographical Thought From Francis Bacon to Alexander von Humbolt 15 Cambridge Geographical Studies Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Green Revolutions Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia
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Cambridge University Press Geography Matters
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Cambridge University Press Population Growth and Agrarian Change An Historical Perspective
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Cambridge University Press The Mediterranean City in Transition
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Cambridge University Press Roots in the African Dust
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Cambridge University Press Roots in the African Dust
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Cambridge University Press Land Custom and Practice in the South Pacific
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Cambridge University Press On Restructuring Territoriality Europe and the United States Compared
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Cambridge University Press Global South Asians Introducing the modern Diaspora 1
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Cambridge University Press The City as Text
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Cambridge University Press Climate Change A Multidisciplinary Approach
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Cambridge University Press The City in Time and Space
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Cambridge University Press Restructuring Territoriality
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Cambridge University Press Global South Asians Introducing the modern Diaspora 1 New Approaches to Asian History Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Fields of Glass
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Cambridge University Press Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama 16201650
Book SynopsisLiterary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship.Trade Review"In addition to her acknowledgement of critics and theorists who have come before, Sanders generously opens up new avenues-paths-waterways for future inquiry. One can imagine a raft of scholarship that will draw on her insights and apply them elsewhere." -Gavin Hollis,The City University of New York, Hunter CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: entering the bear pit: cultural geography and early modern drama; 1. Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period; 2. Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest; 3. 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household; 4. Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation; 5. Neighbourhoods and networks; 6. Writing the city: emergent spaces.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Masters of the Lost Land
Book Synopsis?Gripping. ... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia and how hard it will be to eradicate.? New York Times Book ReviewA raw account of the critical struggle between law and lawlessness on the world's last great frontier. Christian Science MonitorIn the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rain forest and anyone who stands in the wayDeep in the heart of the Amazon, the city of Rondon do Para, Brazil, lived for decades in the shadow of land barons, or fazendeiros, who maintained control of the region through unscrupulous land grabs and egregious human rights violations. They razed and burned the jungle, expelled small-scale farmers and Indigenous tribes from their lands, and treated their farmhands as slaves all with impunity. The only true opposition came from Rondon's small but robust farmworkers' union, led by the charismatic Dezinho, who fought to put power back into the hands of the people who called the Amazon home. But when Dezinho was assassinated in cold blood, it seemed the farmworkers' struggle had come to a violent and fruitless end.What no one anticipated was that this event would bring forth an unlikely hero: Dezinho's widow. Against great odds, and at extreme personal risk, Maria Joel, now a single mother of four young children, used her ingenuity and unwavering support from union members to bring her husband's killer to account in court. Her campaign gained unexpected momentum, helping to bring international attention to the dire situation in Rondon, from Brazil's president Lula to international celebrities and civil rights groups.Maria Joel's fight for justice had far-reaching implications: it unearthed a chilling world of corruption and lawlessness rooted in Brazil's quest to turn the largest rain forest on earth into an economic frontier. As more details came out, it began to look increasingly likely that Dezinho's killer, a reluctant and inexperienced gunman, was just one piece of a larger criminal consortium, with ties leading all the way up to one of the region's most powerful and notorious fazendeiros of all.Featuring groundbreaking revelations and exclusive interviews, this gripping work of narrative nonfiction is the culmination of journalist Heriberto Araujo's years-long investigation in the heart of the Amazon. Set against the backdrop of appalling deforestation rates and resultant superfires, Masters of the Lost Land vividly reveals the human story behind the loss of and fierce crusade to protect one of our greatest resources in the fight against climate change and one of the last wild places on earth.
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Oxford University Press, Canada Human Geography
Book SynopsisInternational in scope and written for Canadians - an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to Human GeographyThe tenth edition of this bestselling text offers a comprehensive introduction to the discipline''s essential concepts and methods. With a well-balanced mix of international and Canadian examples, the text examines the ways in which human behaviour transforms the earth''s surface in response to changing social, cultural, political, and environmental factors.Trade ReviewFrom previous editions: "This is my favourite introductory human geography textbook... This text provides a solid foundation for intro human geography. It introduces the key vocabulary in an accessible way and draws in a variety of current research in a way that makes geography both interesting and approachable." -Patricia Fitzpatrick, University of Winnipeg "Most other texts are American-focused or Canadian adaptations of American texts. Of the global texts, Norton and Mercier is the best at providing a comprehensive treatement of human geography." -Brent Doberstein, Univeristy of WaterlooTable of ContentsNote: All chapters include: - Chapter Introduction - Points to Consider - Conclusion - Summary - Questions for Critical Thought - List of Links to Other Chapters Tenth Edition: Special Features 1. What Is Human Geography? NEW Defining Human Geography Concepts: Space, Place, and Region Concepts: Interaction, Communication, and Movement Geographic Tools People and Places 2. Population and Health Geography Population Distribution Population Dynamics Fertility Mortality Natural Increase Government Policies The Composition of a Population History of Population Growth Explaining Population Growth Migration Health Geographies 3. Uneven Development and Global Inequalities Identifying Global Inequalities Explaining Global Inequalities Interpreting the Significance of Global Inequalities Feeding the World Refugees Natural Disasters and Diseases Prospects for Economic Growth Striving for Equality, Fairness, and Social Justice 4. Geographies of Culture and Landscape A World Divided by Culture? Formal Cultural Regions Vernacular Cultural Regions The Making of Cultural Landscapes Cultural Variables: Language and Religion Language Religion 5. Geographies of Identity and Difference The Cultural Turn The Myth of Race Ethnicity Gender Sexuality Identities and Landscape Geographies of Well-Being Folk Culture and Popular Culture Tourism 6. Political Geography State Creation Geopolitics (and Geopolitik) Unstable States Groupings of States The Role of the State Elections: Geography Matters The Geography of Peace and War Our Geopolitical Future? 7. An Urban World An Urbanizing World The Origins and Growth of Cities The Location of Cities Urban Systems and Hierarchies Global Cities 8. Urban Form and the Social Geography of the City Explaining Urban Form Housing and Neighbourhoods Suburbs and Sprawl Inequality and Poverty Cities as Centres of Production and Consumption Transportation and Communication Planning the City Cities of the Less Developed World 9. Geographies of Food and Agriculture The Geography of Food Production Distance, Land Value, and Land Use Domesticating Plants and Animals The Evolution of World Agricultural Landscapes World Agriculture Today: Types and Regions Global Agricultural Restructuring Food Production, Food Consumption, and Identity 10. Geographies of Energy, Industry, and Services Economic Activity The Industrial Location Problem The Industrial Revolution Fossil Fuel Sources of Energy World Industrial Geography Globalization and Industrial Geographies Uneven Development in More Developed Countries 11. Geographies of Globalization Introducing Globalization Geography as a Discipline in Distance Overcoming Distance: Transportation Overcoming Distance: Trade Overcoming Distance: Transnational Corporations (TNCs) Overcoming Distance: Transmitting Information Interpreting, Conceptualizing, and Measuring Globalization The Global Economic System Cultural Globalization Political Globalization Globalization: Good or Bad? 12. Humans and the Environment A Global Perspective Environmental Concern Human Impacts on Vegetation Human Impacts on Animals Human Impacts on Land, Soil, Air, and Water Earth's Vital Signs Sustainability and Sustainable Development Glossary References Index
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University of Chicago Press London The Selden Map and the Making of a Global
Book SynopsisIf one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp. Using his discovery of a network of Chinese merchant shipping routes on John Selden's map of China, the author reveals how London also flourished because of its encounters, engagements, and exchanges with East Asian cities.Trade Review"In the course of a tumultuous seventeenth century, London changed from an energetic newcomer on the fringes of old Europe to a global center of trade, power, and interactive knowledge. In a work of amazing erudition and ambition, Robert K. Batchelor shows how new forms of organization and knowledge of more Asian histories and languages shaped this transformation." -John E. Wills, Jr., University of Southern California"
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The University of Chicago Press Scenescapes How Qualities of Place Shape Social
Book SynopsisLet's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the mix. These are all experiences created by a given sceneone where we feel connected to other people, in places like a bar or a community center, a neighborhood parish or even a train station. Scenes enable experiences, but they also cultivate skills, create ambiances, and nourish communities. In Scenescapes, Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark examine the patterns and consequences of the amenities that define our streets and strips. They articulate the core dimensions of the theatricality, authenticity, and legitimacy of local scenescafes, churches, restaurants, parks, galleries, bowling alleys, and more. Scenescapes not only reimagines cities in cultural terms, it details how scenes shape economic development, residential pattern
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University of Chicago Press Maps with the News The Development of American
Book SynopsisAn assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. The text traces the use of maps in American news reporting from the 18th century to the 1980s, and explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
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University of Washington Press How to Read the American West
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh perspective on the natural and human history of the American West and encourages readers to discover that history has shaped the places where people live, work, and visit. This book includes stories, photographs, maps, and diagrams on a hundred landscape features across the American West.Trade Review"[Wyckoff] encourages us to see with fresh eyes even as we're barreling down the interstate - to remember to think about the role of time in shaping a landscape, as well as the role of water. He asks us to think about who controls the landscape, and how these places have been shaped by different human interventions. . . . [How to Read the American West] is a marvelous springtime tonic for wanderlust and a wonderful invitation to see our surroundings in a new light." -- Barbara Lloyd McMichael * Bellingham Herald *"Wyckoff has created a delightful package that would be especially useful in a classroom or, for that matter, as a gift to someone outside the field of cultural landscape studies but curious about it. . . . On the basis of its sheer good looks, the book could double as a coffee table book about the modern West." -- Cathleen D. Cahill * Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum *"A field guide unlike any other, with a focus on patterns, variations and the distribution of landscape features . . . it draws attention to eco-tones, watersheds, settlement patterns and corridors of connection . . . ultimately, it considers our grip on the land and the land's grip on us." -- Michael Engelhard * High Country News *"If you like to travel the American West, put this book on your holiday gift list . . . even the experienced Western traveler will come away with new ways to look at familiar places." -- Carl Abbott * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"William Wyckoff, a professor of geography at Montana State University and talented photographer, has created a strange, fascinating and often humorous book that surveys our modern American landscape, both natural and human-built." -- Christian Martin * Cascadia Weekly *"Visually delightful and intellectually informative. . . . [A] truly outstanding field guide to the American West." -- J. Clark Archer * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"A lavish coverage of western landscapes that will trigger remembrance of past place visits, and spur an almost inescapable urge to find competing views in scanned 35 mm slides or among recent images gone straight-to-digital. . . . And the text here is fully equal to the visuals. Just in case you haven’t yet guessed, I’m going to tell you that Bill Wyckoff’s new book, a field guide explaining in delicious detail, How to Read the American West, is a movable feast of narrative and landscape elucidation. . . . So get thee into the field. Bring this book with you." -- Paul F. Starss * The Geographic Review *"I will not hide my fandom of this book. . . . The text is clear, descriptive, and appropriately analytical for a wide audience, thus making it equally useful in the classroom. The full color pictures are gorgeous. . . . Belongs on the shelf of any scholar, amateur or professional, with interests in the western half of this country." -- Chris W. Post * Historical Geography *Table of ContentsForeword by William Cronon Preface Ackowledgements Map of the Eleven Western States Navigating Western Landscapes: An Introduction 1. Nature's Fundament 2. Farms and Ranches 3. Landscapes of Extraction 4. Places of Special Cultural Identity 5. Connections 6. Landscapes of Federal Largesse 7. Cities and Suburbs 8. Playgrounds Chronology Further Reading Index
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University of Washington Press Idahos Place
Book SynopsisFocuses on Gem State history. From the state's indigenous roots and early environmental battles to recent political and social events, this title includes essays that provided context for understanding Idaho's important role in the development of the American West.Trade Review"[A] guidebook to recent interpretations of the state’s history. For scholars teaching and researching Northwest history, the volume provides an informed way-station to advancing understanding of the region." -- William G. Robbins * Oregon Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Idaho's Place: Reckoning with History / Adam M. Sowards 2. The Confluence of Rivers: The Indigenous Tribes of Idaho / Rodney Frey and Robert McCarl IDAHO VOICES: Native American History 3. Crossing Divides: An Environmental History of Idaho / Kevin R. Marsh IDAHO VOICES: Environmental History 4. Idiosyncrasy and Enigma: Idaho Politics / Katherine G. Aiken IDAHO VOICES: Political History 5. The Power and the Glory: Idaho's Religious History / Jill K. Gill IDAHO VOICES: Religious History 6. Defying Boundaries: Women in Idaho History / Laura Woodworth-Ney and Tara A. Rowe IDAHO VOICES: Women's History 7. Confronting Race and Creating Community: Idaho's Ethnic History / Laurie Mercier IDAHO VOICES: Ethnic History 8. Latinos in Idaho / Making Their Way in the Gem State: Errol D. Jones IDAHO VOICES: Latino History 9. Shifting Currents: Cultural Expressions in Idaho / Richard W. Etulain IDAHO VOICES: Cultural History 10. Telling Stories: Idaho's Histories / Judith Austin IDAHO VOICES: Historians Contributors Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Driftless Reader
Book SynopsisAncient glaciers passed by the Driftless Area and waterways vein its interior, forming an enchanting, enigmatic landscape of sharp ridgetops and deep valleys. The Driftless Reader gathers writings that highlight the unique natural and cultural history, landscape, and literature of this region that encompasses southwestern Wisconsin and adjacent Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.Trade ReviewA timely resource for anyone interested in the natural and cultural history of the Driftless Area. The varied texts create a kaleidoscopic portrait that shifts and reassembles with each new view that is offered."" - Beth Lynch,Luther College""As unique as the Driftless bioregion is, so are the writings, old and new, of our region. This land speaks clearly through these words to reflect our collective love of the Driftless, our common sense, our community spirit, and the unique characters we are."" - George Siemon, chief executive, Organic Valley/CROPP CooperativeTable of Contents List of Illustrations Credits Preface Acknowledgments Editors’ Note 1 Geologic Origins Getting to Black Earth (2013), Patricia Monaghan From Roadside Geology of Wisconsin (2004), Robert H. Dott Jr. and John W. Attig From Wisconsin’s Foundations (2004), Gwen M. Schultz From “Preliminary Paper on the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi Valley” (1885), T. C. Chamberlin and Rollin D. Salisbury From “The Pleistocene History of Northeastern Iowa” (1891), W J McGee Watch for Fallen Rock (2012), Katherine Mead 2 Ancient Peoples Wisconsin Mounds (1963), Edna Meudt From Twelve Millennia: Archaeology of the Upper Mississippi River Valley (2003), James L. Theler and Robert F. Boszhart From Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal (2001), Patty Loew From “Notes Respecting Certain Indian Mounds and Earthworks, in the Form of Animal Effigies, Chiefly in the Wisconsin Territory, U.S.” (1838), Richard C. Taylor From Buried Indians: Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town (2006), Laurie Hovell McMillin From Oneota Flow: The Upper Iowa River and Its People (2009), David S. Faldet Wisconsin’s Cave of Wonders (2003), E. Barrie Kavasch 3 Historical Ecologies Meditations (1931), Laura Sherry From “Notes on the Journey West” (1861), Henry David Thoreau From Caddie Woodlawn (1936), Carol Ryrie Brink From “An Ecological Survey of the Driftless Area of Illinois and Wisconsin” (1909), H. S. Pepoon From The Vegetation of Wisconsin (1959), John T. Curtis From “Reconstructing Vegetation Past: Pre-Euro-American Vegetation for the Midwest Driftless Area, USA” (2014), Monika E. Shea, Lisa A. Schulte, and Brian J. Palik Changes in Wildlife Over Time (2012), Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Desoto Hills (1951), Cecile Houghton Stury 4 Native Voices Native Names on the Land The Story of Devil’s Lake (1930), Ulysses S. White Statement to U.S. Indian Commissioners at Prairie du Chien (1829), Hoowaneka/Huwanika (Little Elk) From Life of Black Hawk or Mà-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kià-Kiàk (1833), Black Hawk From A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay Sotor (1847), George William Featherstonhaugh From “Narrative of Spoon Decorah” (1887), Spoon Decorah From Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder (1961), Xehaciwi?ga (Mountain Wolf Woman) 5 Explorations La Crosse at Ninety Miles an Hour (1953), Richard Eberhart From Le Premier Voÿage qu’a Fait Le P. Marquette . . . [Of the First Voyage Made by Father Marquette . . . ] (1674), Jacques Marquette From The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike to Headwaters of the Mississippi River (1810), Zebulon Montgomery Pike From Narrative Journal of Travels through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (1821), Henry R. Schoolcraft Recess in the Bluffs near MacGregor (1863), John Muir From “Landscape and Home: Environmental Traditions in Wisconsin” (1990), William Cronon From Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003), Robin Wall Kimmerer Old Man Fishing (1960), August Derleth 6 Early Economies Diggings (2011), Alice D’Alessio Life in the Diggings (1898), Henry E. Legler Public Land Sale (1847), James M. Goodhue From “Recollections of Antoine Grignon” (1914), Antoine Grignon From A Raft Pilot’s Log (1930), Walter A. Blair From History of the White Pine Industry in Minnesota (1949), Agnes M. Larson From Order Upon the Land (1976), Hildegard Binder Johnson Dreamers (1931), Laura Case Sherry 7 Settler Stories Sesquicentennial Song, for Wisconsin Statehood, 1848 (2008), Thomas R. Smith From Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest (1873), Juliette Kinzie Macaja Revels Camped at a Stream of Water (2013), Fabu From A Badger Boy in Blue (1862), Chauncey Cooke From The Kickapoo Valley: The Gem of Wisconsin (1896), Gertrude Frazier and Rose B. Poff “Every Time I Travel the Great River Road . . .” (1990), Pearl Swiggum Yanys (2010), Jacqueline West 8 Farming Lives Me and My Man (1931), Laura Sherry From Incidents of a Journey from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin Territory (1837), William Rudolph Smith From A Son of the Middle Border (1917), Hamlin Garland From Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Laura Ingalls Wilder From The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People (1975), Ben Logan It Is Natural (2006), Lynne Burgess 9 Waterways The Pinery Boy (1926), Collected by Franz Rickaby From Life on the Mississippi (1883), Mark Twain From American Places (1981), Wallace Stegner Water Song (2013), Catherine Young From Crossing the Driftless: A Canoe Trip through a Midwestern Landscape (2015), Lynne Diebel War (1956), Joseph Langland 10 Conserving Lands From Wisconsin Sketches (1973), Robert E. Gard Coon Valley: An Adventure in Cooperative Conservation (1935), Aldo Leopold From Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (1943), Frank Lloyd Wright Letter from the Old Order Amish Churches (1995) An Ecological Play on a Stage Known as Dunlap Hollow (1998), Stanley Temple From A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley (2005), Lynne Heasley Frac Sand Song (2013), Emmett J. Doyle 11 Communities in Transition Driftless Elegy (2013), Mark Wunderlich “Richland Center, the Cradle of Su¤rage in Wisconsin: How Earliest Enthusiasts Led Sisters” (1924), Mary Elizabeth Hussong From The Driftless Zone; or, A Novel Concerning the Selective Outmigration from Small Cities (1997), Rick Harsch From Driftless (2008), David Rhodes Postville: Iowa’s Entry into the Post-Modern (2009), Robert Wolf Things I Love About Where I Am (2012), Kathe Davis 287 12 Futures Broken Gates (2012), Ken McCullough From Way Station (1963), Clifford D. Simak From Going Driftless: Life Lessons from the Heartland for Unraveling Times (2015), Stephen Lyons From Jerusalem Creek: Journeys into Driftless Country (2002), Ted Leeson From The Driftless Land: Spirit of Place in the Upper Mississippi Valley (2010), Kevin Koch Sources and Further Readings Index
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St Martin's Press Why the West RulesFor Now
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA remarkable book . . . an important book?one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start right here.?The EconomistSometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West''s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules?for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines?from ancient history to neuroscience?not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.
£22.50
Random House Canada Planet Canada How Our Expats Are Shaping the
Book SynopsisA leading thinker on Canada's place in the world contends that our country's greatest untapped resource may be the three million Canadians who don't live here.Entrepreneurs, educators, humanitarians: an entire province's worth of Canadian citizens live outside Canada. Some will return, others won't. But what they all share is the ability, and often the desire, to export Canadian values to a world sorely in need of them. And to act as ambassadors for Canada in industries and societies where diplomatic efforts find little traction. Surely a country with people as diverse as Canada's ought to plug itself into every corner of the globe. We don't, and sometimes not even when our expats are eager to help.Failing to put this desire to work, contends bestselling author and longtime foreign correspondent John Stackhouse, is a grave error for a small country whose voice is getting lost behind developing nations of rapidly increasing influence. The soft power we once boaste
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux On the Move
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceOn the Move explains how we got here and where we''re headed. It''s crucial guide to the world we are creating. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionA vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly.Abrahm Lustgarten's On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As he shows, the United States will be rendered unrecognizable by four unstoppable forces: wildfires in the West; frequent flooding
£24.00
Routledge The Social Fabric of the Networked City
Book SynopsisFeatures contributions focusing on the transformation of the fabric of the networked city in terms of policies and social practices. This book includes articles that cover a range of areas, such as architecture, local public action, including its sociohistorical transformation, and mobility practices which create tensions between places and flows.Table of Contents1. Introduction: New perspectives on urban forms, power and experiences Géraldine Pflieger, Luca Pattaroni, Christophe Jemelin, Vincent Kaufmann Part I. Urban technologies, power and experiences: a theoretical framework 2. The Networked City Manuel Castells 3. Architecture and Reflexivity Jean-Louis Genard Part II. Mobility and accessibility: new planning practices and challenges 4. Mobility pioneers in Germany: New patterns of (im)mobility in an age of second modernity Sven Kesselring 5. Spatial patterns and social inequality in Switzerland – modern or post-modern? Max Bergman and Katharina Manderscheid Part III: The modern urban planning ideal 6. Atypical Haussman boulevards in the 19th century: the non-standardized development of the Rue des Pyrénées project Agnès Sander 7. "Villes nouvelles" and political infrastructures in France: a 1960s sociological viewpoint Vincent Guigueno Part IV. New articulations between flows and places 8. Expertise for the neighbourhood – neighbourhood against expertise: case study of the Berne West Tramway Fritz Sager 9. An airport in its environment: non-territorialization or re-territorialization? Guillaume Faburel 10. Conclusion: Reshaping Cities Géraldine Pflieger, Luca Pattaroni, Jerôme Chenal, Vincent Kaufmann
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Penguin Putnam Inc Cities
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Johns Hopkins University Press Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures
Book SynopsisPublishing essays that examine American societies and cultures in global and local contexts, the journal contributes to the understanding of the United States, its diversity, and its impact on world politics and culture.Trade ReviewProvides a lively sample of the latest scholarship that critics and fans of Los Angeles alike will enjoy. -- Allison Varzally Southern California Quarterly 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Los Angeles Studies and the Future of Urban CulturesChapter 1. Best MTA Bus Line: The Number 18, yes, let's take a trip down Whittier BoulevardChapter 2. Learning from Los Angeles: Another One Rides the BusChapter 3. Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of MigrationsChapter 4. Border City: Race and Social Distance in Los AngelesChapter 5. The Figure of the Neighbor: Los Angeles Past and FutureChapter 6. Straight into Compton: American Dreams, Urban Nightmares, and the Metamorphosis of a Black SuburbChapter 7. L.A. Race Woman: Charlotta Bass and the Complexities of Black Political Development in Los AngelesChapter 8. "What's Good for Boyle Heights Is Good for the Jews":Chapter 9. Creating Multiracialism on the Eastside during the 1950sChapter 10. The Art of the City: Modernism, Censorship, and the Emergence of Los Angeles's Postwar Art SceneChapter 11. Bringing Music to the People: Race, Urban Culture, and Municipal Politics inChapter 12. Postwar Los AngelesChapter 13. The Battle of Los Angeles: The Cultural Politics of Chicana/o Music in the Greater Eastside Chapter 14. What Is an MC If He Can't Rap to Banda?Chapter 15. Making Music in Nuevo L.A.Chapter 16. Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)Chapter 17. Borders and Social Distinction in the Global SuburbChapter 18. Nuestra Los AngelesContributors Index
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Early American Cartographies
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Random House USA Inc Pandoras Seed Why the HunterGatherer Holds the
Book SynopsisTen thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more sedentary and unhealthy and made the planet more crowded. The expanding population and the need to apportion limited resources created hierarchies and inequalities. Freedom of movement was replaced by a pressure to work that is the forebear of the anxiety millions feel today. Spencer Wells offers a hopeful prescription for altering a life to which we were always ill-suited. Pandora’s Seed is an eye-opening book for anyone fascinated by the past and concerned about the future.
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Random House USA Inc The End of Nature
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University of Arizona Press North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
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University of Minnesota Press Fast Policy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Drawing on theory and cases, the authors present slowly matured, insightful, and agenda-setting scholarship on the accelerated development, fast cross-border transfer, and quick implementation of welfare and labor market policies."—Bob Jessop, Lancaster University, UK"Fast Policy is a publication full of methodological innovations, a fruitful dialogue between in-depth case study research and theory formulation, and the valiant act of discussing important substantive questions across the boundaries of various disciplines."—Journal of Economic Geography"A compelling landmark study in the heretofore insufficiently researched domain of policy transfer analysis. Moreover, it is written in a colorful, thoroughly engaging style, rare for a book on public policy."—CHOICE"Fast Policy marks an interesting new step in the research trajectory that Peck and Theodore have shared for years."—Social Service Review"Peck and Theodore have developed a rich and original approach to thinking about how transnational networks and relationships have profoundly transformed policy-making in the contemporary period."—European Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Policies without BordersPart I. In Pursuit of Fast Policy1. Geographies of Policy2. Reflections: Pursuing Projects, Following PoliciesPart II. Social Policy as Practical Science3. New Ideas for New York City4. Globalizing Social-Policy Expertise5. Reflections: Tailwinds, Turning PointsPart III. Propagating Progressive Practice6. Porto Alegre as Participatory Laboratory7. Democracy on the Move8. Reflections: Headwinds, Hollowing OutConclusion: Exploring (Fast) Policy WorldsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Meeting Place
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paul Carter's commentaries on cross-cultural encounters have long been philosophically sophisticated and deservedly influential. His new book raises the question of what the value of meeting is, in whose terms. It takes us to the very heart of the histories of encounter and confrontation that have proven so intractable for so long in Australia and elsewhere." —Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge"The Meeting Place, Carter’s latest foray into colonial and postcolonial encounters of peoples, epistemologies, and longings, exposes what he foregrounds and reiterates as a ‘meeting place’ of desired belonging and social union. It is an imaginative, referentially capacious, formally demanding, as well as theoretically inventive book." —Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsContentsResponseBorderlineAsideRendez-vousHollowed OutCladdingCatching UpEcho LocationScalesOver and AboveThirdingsAll ChangeLiaisonsSinging ThroughX Marks the SpotG/hostsEnigma VariationsIn PassingPigeon HolesErotic ZonesFirst ImpressionsWithin a CooeeDangerousI Read Marx (I Don’t)TerminalMiddle GroundBlind SpotSave the WallAll EarsI Have Wondered beyond AbsolutesAccompanimentProxyNotesIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Paradise Wild Reimagining American Nature
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