Recently added articles from The Geographical Review:
Inventing the "Magic Valley" of South Texas, 1905-1941.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In the first decade of the twentieth century land developers and boosters promoted the Lower Rio Grande of Texas as the "Magic Valley," a place for Anglo farmers to obtain water for irrigating vegetable and citrus crops and to exploit Hispanic labor. A railroad line between Houston and ...
Meteorological tsunamis in southern Britain: an historical review.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Meteorological tsunamis, or meteo-tsunamis, are waves that possess tsunami characteristics but have a meteorological origin (Defant 1961; Rabinovich and Monserrat 1996, 1998; Bryant 2001; Gonzalez, Farreras, and Ochoa 2001). Tsunamis are characterized by their long wavelength and ...
Rice producer-processor networks in Cote D'ivoire.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In April 2008 the world rice price reached a record high of more than U. S. $ 1,000 per ton, more than double its January price. The price spike precipitated food riots in countries that were especially dependent on imported rice, including those in Africa south of the Sahara. Imported ...
Rejecting violence on the landscape in Lawrence, Kansas.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Near dawn on 21 August 1863, Missouri "bushwhackers" set ablaze Lawrence, Kansas, a stronghold of regional antislavery sentiments. By ten o'clock 143 citizens-men, children, and freedmen--were dead. News of the attack immediately spread nationwide, and Lawrence became known as an archetype ...
Voodoo, zombies, and mermaids: U.S. newspaper coverage of Haiti.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... On 14 March 2004 the New York Times ran an article entitled "Life Is Hard and Short in Haiti's Bleak Villages" (Weiner 2004). In the lead paragraph is the statement that "diplomats call Haiti 'a failed state,' a nation done in by dictators and disasters." This notion of Haiti as a failed ...
Self-determination and the difficulty of creating nation-states: the Transylvania case.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Transylvania, the rugged region that marks the southernmost extension of the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe, evokes images of Count Dracula and other elements of Western mythology. However, for both the Hungarian and Romanian peoples, Transylvania symbolizes the birthplace of their ...
The Alberta oil sands from both sides of the border.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... After more than a century of temptation, setbacks, anticipation, and challenge, one of the world's great storehouses of energy finally appears ready to give up its treasure. Thousands of workers and their families, plus billions in capital investment from the United States and many other ...
Geographical record note: research perspectives on national parks.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... American national parks have served as research sites for geographers for close to a century. Ellsworth Huntington studied giant sequoias and published The Secret of the Big Trees in 1921. More recently, Thomas and Geraldine Vale used repeat photography to analyze vegetation change in ...
Aridland springs in North America.(Aridland springs in North America: Ecology and Conservation)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... ARIDLAND SPRINGS IN NORTH AMERICA: Ecology and Conservation. Edited by LAWRENCE E. STEVENS and VICKY J. MERETSKY. xvi and 406 pp.; maps, diagrs., ills., bibliog., index. Tucson: University of Arizona Press and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2008. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780816526451. ...
Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, and Society.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... TRINCHERAS SITES IN TIME, SPACE, AND SOCIETY. Edited by SUZANNE K. FISH, PAUL R. FISH, and M. ELISA VILLALPANDO.xii and 328 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008. $55.95 (cloth), isbn 9780816525409. This inaugural volume of the Amerind ...
The Taste of Place.(The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... THE TASTE OF PLACE: A Cultural Journey into Terroir. By AMY B. TRUBEK. XX and 296 pp.; map, ills., bibliog., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780520252813. Though not written by a geographer, this book specifically applies the classic ...
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies.(The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... THE GROWTH AND COLLAPSE OF PACIFIC ISLAND SOCIETIES: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives. Edited by PATRICK V. KIRCH and JEAN-LOUIS RALLU. xvi and 390 pp.; maps, diagrs, ills., bibliog., index Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. $37.00 (paper), ISBN 9780824831486. ...
Leprosy and Empire.(Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... LEPROSY AND EMPIRE: A Medical and Cultural History. By ROD EDMOND. x and 255 pp.; map, ills., notes, index. New York: Cambridge University Press. $104.00 (cloth), 2006. ISBN 0521685840. Few diseases invoke the response that leprosy produces. Throughout history fear and revulsion ...
Emotional Geographies.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES. Edited by Joyce DAVIDSON, LIZ BONDI, and MICK SMITH. xiii and 258 pp.; diagrs., ills., bibliog., index. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2005. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780754643753; $49.95 (paper), ISBN 9780754671077. In recent years a handful of geographers have ...