The Geographical Review back issues from January 2008:
German great-power relations in the pages of Simplicissimus, 1896-1914.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In the period leading up to World War I, roughly the British Edwardian period, international relations shifted with great rapidity, making this one of the most significant transitional periods in world history. Two polities, the United States and imperial Germany, pulled level with Great ...
Expansion of golf courses in the United States.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Few sports leave an imprint on the land as large or distinctive as golf. Golf courses are highly visible from the air and are easily distinguishable in remotely sensed satellite imagery because of their large size, distinctive patterns, and normally bright green, irrigated grasslands. Golf ...
Genealogies of the grid: revisiting Stanislawski's search for the origin of the grid-pattern town.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... More than half a century has passed since Dan Stanislawski (1903-1997) published his landmark study in the Geographical Review on the geography of the grid settlement plan, "The Origin and Spread of the Grid-Pattern Town" (1946). In it, he attempted to trace the origin and diffusion of the ...
West African environmental narratives and development-volunteer praxis.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Since the mid-1990s environmental narratives have been discussed in a spate of publications (for example, Fairhead and Leach 1996; Swift 1996; McCann 1999; Bassett and Koli Bi 2000). Often inspired by poststructural critiques, these works have aimed to overturn long-established ...
Ethnic neighborhoods and urban revitalization: can Europe use the American model?(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... It is difficult to find a major American city today that has not used ethnic-theme neighborhoods in a revitalization strategy. "Little Italys" play major roles in the personalities of New York City, Boston, Massachusetts, Baltimore, Maryland, Cleveland, Ohio, San Diego, California, and a ...
A map of the world.(GEOGRAPHICAL RECORD)(Travel narrative)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Pre> One's destination is never a place, but a new way of looking at things. --Henry Miller, 1891-1980 </Pre> I had barely one-quarter the time that Jules Verne allotted Phileas Fogg, but when the opportunity arose I took it: a journey around the world, not by the fictional ...
Concrete-block farmers in Mexico.(GEOGRAPHICAL FIELD NOTE)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In 1989 Augustin was a campesino who grew potatoes, fava beans, and corn on 2 hectares of land on the slopes of the Cofre de Perote in the highlands of central Veracruz State, Mexico. (1) He also raised goats, sheep, and chickens. He learned to farm from his father and hoped that his sons ...
Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABYSMAL: A Critique of Cartographic Reason. By GUNNAR OLSSON. xii and 553 pp.; diagr., ills., bibliog., indexes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226629308. Reviewing Gunnar Olsson's books is a difficult task. Reviewers of his previous works ...
In Search of Maya Sea Traders.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... IN SEARCH OF MAYA SEA TRADERS. By HEATHER MCKILLOP. xvii and 226 pp.; ills., maps, bibliog., index. Texas A & M Anthropology Series, 11. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2005. $45.00 (cloth); ISBN 1585443891; $19.95 (paper) ISBN 1585444243. The story of the rise ...
Islands in a Far Sea: The Fate of Nature in Hawai'i.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ISLANDS IN A FAR SEA: The Fate of Nature in Hawai'i. By JOHN L. CULLINEY. Rev. ed. x and 420 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0824829476. Islands in a Far Sea offers a wide-ranging environmental history of ...
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE GHOST MAP: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. By STEVEN JOHNSON. xv and 301 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 1594489254; $15.00 (paper), ISBN 1594482694. ...
The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE MIDWESTERN PASTORAL: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland. By WILLIAM BARILLAS. xviii and 258 pp.; ills., bibliog., index. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. $39.95 (cloth); ISBN 082141660X. Many geographers are drawn to the field by their love of ...
The Ribbon of Green: Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Southwestern United States.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE RIBBON OF GREEN: Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Southwestern United States. By ROBERT H. WEBB, STANLEY A. LEAKE, and RAYMOND M. TURNER. "xiv and 462 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0816525889. This ...