The Geographical Review back issues from April 2006:
A tribute to Wilbur Zelinsky.(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2006; ... For six decades Wilbur Zelinsky has been an original and authentic voice in American cultural geography. His curiosity is endless, his intellectual appetite voracious. He seeks human meaning in every facet of material life and every corner of the American scene. His scholarly productivity ...
Wilbur as icon.(Wilbur Zelinsky)(Personal account)
Apr 01, 2006; ... A little while ago my old friend Wilbur Zelinsky was about to present a paper at the Pennsylvania State Geography Department's weekly coffee hour. Our young colleague Lorraine Dowler, who introduced him, began by telling the overflowing audience that they were about to hear from one of ...
The non-Pennsylvania town: diffusion of urban plan forms in the American West.
Apr 01, 2006; ... This study is a delayed response to Wilbur Zelinsky's celebrated article on the Pennsylvania town, a groundbreaking attempt to typify, statistically and otherwise, and map a strong regional urban type that has yet to be replicated with similar specificity for any other cultural region of ...
Nodal heterolocalism and transnationalism at the United States-Canadian border.(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 01, 2006; ... Human geographers have become increasingly interested in studies of North American immigration patterns and processes during the past four decades. After the passage of new and more open immigration laws in the 1960s, the arrival of large numbers of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers ...
Kids and space in the Puerto Rican highlands.(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 01, 2006; ... Despite the recent publication of important geographies of children by Stuart Aitken (2001) and Cindi Katz (2004), the spatial and temporal worlds of children remain essentially unmapped. My aspiration here is to help remediate this situation by putting on record some observations I made ...
Changing expectations and institutions: American women geographers in the 1970s.
Apr 01, 2006; ... In 1973, during his presidency of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Wilbur Zelinsky broke new ground for the leadership in addressing the status of women in academic geography. In "The Strange Case of the Missing Female Geographer," his views-and-opinions article in the ...
Wilbur and me.(Wilbur Zelinsky )(Personal account)
Apr 01, 2006; ... About twenty-five years ago I received a telephone call from Wilbur Zelinsky, wondering whether I would like to drive with him to the SNACS conference in Louisville, Kentucky. I had not been planning to go to Louisville. In fact, I am not certain that I could have accurately translated the ...
Sacred spaces, common places: the cemetery in the contemporary American city.(GEOGRAPHICAL RECORD)(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 01, 2006; ... When considering a topic for a tribute to Wilbur Zelinsky, I immediately thought of cemeteries. The first meeting of the Association of American Geographers I attended was in 1973, at which he presented his work on cemetery place-names, later published as "Unearthly Delights" (1976). His ...
Reading the Appalachian landscape.(GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW ESSAY)(The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape)(Appalachian Folkways)(Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945)(The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 2: Geography)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... THE UPLAND SOUTH: The Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape. By TERRY G. JORDAN-BYCHKOV. xiv and 120 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Santa Fe, N. Mex.: Center for American Places, 2003. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 1930066082. APPALACHIAN FOLKWAYS. By JOHN B. REHDER. x and ...
The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. 4: Global America, 1915-2000.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... THE SHAPING OF AMERICA: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. 4: GLOBAL AMERICA, 1915-2000. By D. W. MEINIG. xvi and 467 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0300104324; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 0300115288. ...
The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... THE PLANTING OF NEW VIRGINIA: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By WARREN R. HOFSTRA. xv and 410 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0801874181; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 0801882710. In The ...
Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... CUMBERLAND ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE: A History of Conservation Conflict. By LARY M. DILSAVER. x and 323 pp.; maps, ills., appendixes, notes, index. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0813922682. Browsing the shelves of a library or ...
An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... AN UNNATURAL METROPOLIS: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. By CRAIG E. COLTEN. xiii and 243 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0807129771; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0807132004. New Orleans was in trouble: "The ...
Black Rock.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... BLACK ROCK. By PETER GOIN and PAUL F. STARRS. xiv and 277 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0874175917. No two people are more qualified to portray and interpret the landscapes of northwestern Nevada than the authors ...
Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... RAMONA MEMORIES: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. By DYDIA DELYSER. xxii and 256 pp.; map, ills., bibliog., index. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. $56.96 (cloth), ISBN 081664571X; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0816645728. Ramona Memories is a critical ...
Landscapes in Music: Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2006; ... LANDSCAPES IN MUSIC: Space, Place, and Time in the World's Great Music. By DAVID B. KNIGHT. xii and 244 pp.; map, ills., bibliog., index. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 0742541150; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0742541169. Landscapes figure in most music, ...