New Books in Geography
Interviews with Geographers about their New Books
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/geography/
- Description
- Interviews with Geographers about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-22 15:52
- last episode published
- 2024-11-22 09:00
- publication frequency
- 11.31 days
- Contributors
- Marshall Poe
- Owner Author
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- Number of Episodes
- 535
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- Categories
- Social Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2024-11-21 | Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, diverse, and unique. Islands are repositories of unique cultures and ways of living, seed banks built up in rel... |
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| 2024-11-21 | Whether it’s in commerce or conflict, today’s world pays rapt attention to the Persian Gulf. But the centrality of the Gulf to world history stretches far beyond the oil age–its ancient ports created the first proper trading system and the launching po... |
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| 2024-11-20 | What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or subvert-dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that Social Spaces an... |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023) In The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java (Duke UP, 2023), Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia's volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concer... |
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| 2024-11-15 |
Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023) In The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java (Duke UP, 2023), Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia's volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concer... |
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| 2024-11-05 | North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For millennia, these four directions have been foundational to our travel, navigation a... |
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| 2024-11-01 | With Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations (National Geographic, 2024) by Erika Engelhaupt, you can go to hell and back with the help of this one-of-a-kind illustrated travel guide to real-life underworld destinations... |
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| 2024-10-31 |
Dariusz Wojcik et al., "Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money" (Yale UP, 2024) From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networke... |
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| 2024-10-25 |
Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite and alongside continuing violence. Departing... |
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