New Books in Geography

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Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)
May 27, 2025 – 47:16
Marine Environment Assessment in Palawan, Philippines
May 24, 2025 – 25:47
Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 22, 2025 – 01:15:09
Gazi Mizanur Rahman, "In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
May 20, 2025 – 50:53
Daniel MacFarlane, "The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
May 10, 2025 – 55:51
Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 29, 2025 – 01:06:18
Franck Billé, "Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity" (Duke UP, 2025)
Apr 27, 2025 – 51:02
Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Apr 24, 2025 – 01:06:22
Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
Apr 22, 2025 – 01:14:53
María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:08:53
The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
Apr 13, 2025 – 40:45
Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 29, 2025 – 01:22:44
V. Chitra, "Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai's Shore" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 24, 2025 – 01:04:16
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
Mar 23, 2025 – 34:49
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025 – 30:32
Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 15, 2025 – 42:53
Joseph A. Seeley, "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 14, 2025 – 01:01:38
Martin Spychal, "Mapping the State: English Boundaries and the 1832 Reform Act" (U London Press, 2024)
Mar 12, 2025 – 52:10
Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 8, 2025 – 52:10
Nir Arielli, "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History" (Yale UP, 2025)
Mar 7, 2025 – 01:06:22
Gary Griggs, "California Catastrophes: The Natural Disaster History of the Golden State" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 7, 2025 – 01:09:18
Marcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024)
Mar 2, 2025 – 36:45
Dawn Day Biehler, "Animating Central Park: A Multispecies History" (U Washington Press, 2024)
Mar 1, 2025 – 54:44
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 1, 2025 – 01:15:06
Raheel Dhattiwala, "Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu-Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Feb 27, 2025 – 56:28
Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 27, 2025 – 01:26:07
Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Feb 20, 2025 – 50:27
"Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations" (Fernwood Publishing, 2024)
Feb 9, 2025 – 53:22
Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025)
Feb 5, 2025 – 52:28
William A. Selby, "The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next" (Heyday Books, 2024)
Feb 3, 2025 – 50:57
Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jan 14, 2025 – 45:14
Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 27, 2024 – 46:17
Emily Mitchell-Eaton, "New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
Dec 22, 2024 – 01:14:59
Stephanie Rutherford, "Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
Dec 18, 2024 – 53:53
Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Dec 17, 2024 – 01:21:28
Susan Gaunt Stearns. "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Dec 9, 2024 – 01:03:20
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Dec 9, 2024 – 01:00:11
Ptolemy Dean, "Streetscapes: Historic Routes Through English Towns" (Lund Humphries, 2024)
Nov 29, 2024 – 43:56
Tom Scott-Smith, "Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024 – 01:02:07
Alice Rudge, "Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rain Forest" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Nov 25, 2024 – 01:13:46
Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
Nov 22, 2024 – 54:11
Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024 – 31:20
Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 21, 2024 – 54:04
Sasikumar Harikrishnan, "Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala" (Routledge, 2023)
Nov 20, 2024 – 01:17:29
Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023)
Nov 15, 2024 – 43:08
Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)
Nov 5, 2024 – 53:50
Erika Engelhaupt, "Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations" (National Geographic, 2024)
Nov 1, 2024 – 55:58
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024)
Oct 31, 2024 – 01:17:25
Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Oct 25, 2024 – 39:02
Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
Oct 20, 2024 – 39:22

Recent Reviews

relhublg

Thank you

It is sad to see how some geographic thought has evolved. While there are good books here that enhance human knowledge (Monmonier’s Connections and Content, Alexander’s Copyright and Cartography, etc.) the dribble born from passing political trendiness is excessive. The title words justice (all kinds), hate, decolonization, etc. are flags to move on. I do judge books by their cover. Anyway, I enjoy the podcast and thanks for making me aware of some books worth adding to my library.
ghidora77

Skews towards their bias

There are a few episodes that are interesting, and as a geographer I’m interested in the subject - but the guests they invite have too much of a focus on left wing subjects.