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Volume 8, Issue 4
Pages: 193-258
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain
Alexander von Humboldt, edited by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, translated by J. Ryan Poynter, Kenneth Berri, and Vera M. Kutzinski. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Volume 1, xxvii and 585 pp.; Volume 2, ix and 633 pp.; map, tables, notes, index. Volume 1, $65.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-226-65138-5); Volume 2, $65.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-226-65155-2).
Joshua Hagen
Pages: 193-195
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener. New York, NY: Verso, 2020. xii and 788 pp., epilogue, acknowledgments, notes, index. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 9781784780227).
Michael Dear
Pages: 196-198
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace: Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape
William Wyckoff. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 176 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, index. $34.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-8263-6141-7).
Geoffrey L. Buckley
Pages: 199-201
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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I Hate the Lake District
Charlie Gere. London, UK: Goldsmiths Press, 2019. vii and 183 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, notes. $15.95 paper (ISBN 9781912685110).
Basak Tanulku
Pages: 202-204
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba
Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xiv and 249 pp., figures, photographs, maps, notes, index. $29.95 paper (ISBN 978-146-6965-142200); $90.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-4696-5141-5).
Joseph L. Scarpaci
Pages: 205-207
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics
Ryan D. Enos. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xv and 302 pp., acknowledgments, bibliography, figures, index, notes, preface. $24.99 paper (ISBN 978-110-843-0715); $39.99 cloth (ISBN 978-1-1084-2064-8).
Irma Losada Olmos
Pages: 208-210
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism
Bernard Stiegler. London, UK: Polity Press, 2019. 418 pp., notes, index. $74.95 cloth (ISBN 9781509529261); $32.95 paper (ISBN 9781509529278); $21.99 ebook (ISBN 9781509529292).
James Ash
Pages: 211-212
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Into the Woods: An Epistemography of Climate Change
Meritxell Ramírez-i-Ollé. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020. xv and 136 pp., maps, photos, diagrams, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. $120.00 cloth (ISBN 978-1-5261-4098-2); $120.00 electronic (ISBN 978-1-5261-4100-2).
Martin Mahony
Pages: 213-215
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative
Robert A. Voeks. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xxi and 328 pp., notes, index, references. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 9780226547718); $10–45 ebook (ISBN 9780226547855).
Michael K. Steinberg
Pages: 216-217
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity
Laura Harjo. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2019. xiv and 303 pp., maps, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 9780816538010); $35.00 paper (ISBN 9780816541102); $35.00 electronic (ISBN 9780816541102).
Elspeth Iralu
Pages: 218-219
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Literature and Cartography: Theories, Histories, Genres
Anders Engberg-Pedersen, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. 480 pp., 80 color illustrations, 15 black-and-white illustrations, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 9780262036740).
Chris Barrett
Pages: 220-222
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Cartography: The Ideal and Its History
Matthew H. Edney. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019. xiii and 296 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $90.00 cloth (ISBN 9780226605548); $30.00 paper (ISBN 9780226605685); $30.00 electronic (ISBN 9780226605715).
Jörn Seemann, Barbara Belyea, Keith C. Clarke, Francis Harvey, Trevor J. Barnes, Maria Lane & Matthew H. Edney
Pages: 223-235
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond
James D. Sidaway, Shaun Lin, Vera Chouinard, Federico Ferretti, Katherine Gibson, Miles Kenney-Lazar, Chris Philo, Michiel van Meeteren, Jane Wills, Ben Wisner, Trevor J. Barnes & Eric Sheppard
Pages: 236-258
Published online: 09 Oct 2020
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