Book Review List:

 

GEOG 334/534

Spring Quarter 2007-2008

 

Daniel D. Arreola, Tejano South Texas: A Mexican-American Cultural Province (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002).

 

Charles Aiken, The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).

 

Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1986).

 

J. M. Blaut, The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History (New York: The Guilford Press, 1993).

 

Geoffrey L. Buckley, Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003).

 

Judith Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).

 

William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: Norton, 1991).

 

Mona Domosh, Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in 19^th-Century New York and Boston (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).

 

Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

 

Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1997).

 

Carville Earle, The American Way: A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).

 

David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

 

David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly, Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000). 

 

Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996).

 

Kim M. Gruenwald, River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003). 

 

Blake Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).

 

Matthew G. Hannah, Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in 19^th-Century America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

 

Stephen D. Hoelscher, Ethnicity on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Space in America’s Little Switzerland (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).

 

John C. Hudson, Making the Corn Belt: A Geographical History of Middle-Western Agriculture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).

 

Peter J. Hugill, World Trade Since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).

 

Hildegard Binder Johnson, Order Upon the Land: The U.S. Rectangular Land Survey and the Upper Mississippi Country (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).

 

James T. Lemon, The Best Poor Man’s Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972).

 

Terry G. Jordan and Matti Kaups, The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethnic and Ecological Interpretation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).

 

Terry G. Jordan, North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993).

 

Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, The Upland South (Harrisonburg, VA: The Center for American Places, 2003).

 

Anne Kelly Knowles, Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).

 

Donald W. Meinig, The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968).

 

Douglas K. Meyer, Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000).

 

Don Mitchell, The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

 

Richard L. Nostrand, The Hispano Homeland (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992).

 

Richard L. Nostrand, El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003).

 

Robert C. Ostergren, A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).

 

Hugh Prince, Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).

 

Carl O. Sauer, The Early Spanish Main (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966).

 

James R. Shortridge, Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995).

 

Paul F. Starrs, Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1998).

 

John R. Stilgoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).

 

Michael Williams, Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

 

Joseph S. Wood, The New England Village (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). 

 

William Wyckoff, Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).