New Books in Geography
Interviews with Geographers about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Geographers about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-27 09:56
- last episode published
- 2024-12-27 09:00
- publication frequency
- 11.19 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 544
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- Categories
- Social Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-27 |
Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024) In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour. These travels in the age of Enlightenment contributed to a massive reimagining of politics and the arts, of the market for culture, and of ideas about educa... |
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| 2024-12-22 | In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exc... |
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| 2024-12-18 | A wolf’s howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected. Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and ... |
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| 2024-12-17 | The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Kenny Cupers traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Dr... |
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| 2024-12-09 |
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024) Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (U Nebraska Press, 2024) utilizes testimonies, oral histories, and recollections from Jewish, German, and Polish witnesses to create a holistic representation of the Treblinka death camp during its operation.... |
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| 2024-12-09 | Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pledged his allegiance to the king of Spain. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, imperial control of the North American continent remained an open question. ... |
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| 2024-11-29 |
Ptolemy Dean, "Streetscapes: Historic Routes Through English Towns" (Lund Humphries, 2024) At a time of increased pressure for new urban development, where there is a focus on either object-based architecture or the rolling out of developer-designed suburban sprawl, there is a concern that the lessons learned about the creation of a general ... |
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| 2024-11-27 | Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys,... |
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| 2024-11-25 | How do we confront difference and change in a rapidly shifting environment? Many indigenous peoples are facing this question in their daily lives. Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rain Forest (U Nebraska Press, 202... |
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| 2024-11-22 | By most accounts, Blackdom, New Mexico existed from 1900-1930. However, as historian and artist Dr. Timothy Nelson argues in his new book, the Black colony founded in the then-territory of New Mexico has a much longer history and many afterlives, even ... |
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