Geography Spring 2021 Catalogue

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Geography Spring 2021

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Borderwaters

Confederate Exodus

Amid the Archipelagic States of America Brian Russell Roberts

Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil Alan P. Marcus

May 2021 392pp 68 illus. 9781478011859 £23.99/ $29.95 PB 9781478010739 £91.00/ $109.95 HB

April 2021 288pp 8 photos, 1 map, index 9781496224156 £50.00/ $60.00 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Brian Russell Roberts dispels con�nental-centric US na�onal mythologies to advance an alterna�ve image of the United States as an archipelagic na�on to be�er reflect its claims to archipelagoes in the Pacific and Caribbean.

Through a geographical lens Alan P. Marcus provides a new synthesis for interpre�ng the Confederado story and for understanding the impact of the various stakeholders who encouraged, aided, promoted, financed, and facilitated this broader emigra�on from the U.S. South to Brazil.

Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil

Fruit, Fiber, and Fire

A History of Modern Agriculture in New Mexico William R. Carleton

A Lost World of Gondwana Giuseppe Leonardi & Ismar de Souza Carvalho Foreword by James O. Farlow

June 2021 234pp index 9781496216168 £45.00/ $55.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Life of the Past July 2021 256pp 93 color illus., 69 b&w illus., 32 line drawings, 23 maps 9780253057228 £41.00/ $50.00 HB

Explores the industrializa�on of apples, co�on, and chile to illustrate how agriculture has spurred migra�ons of plants and people and in turn shaped the culture of twen�eth-century New Mexico.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil is the first full-length study of dinosaurs in Brazil. Veteran paleontologists Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de Souza Carvalho painstakingly document and analyze each track found at 37 individual sites and at approximately 96 stra�graphic levels.

Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future

Skiing into the Bright Open

February 2021 304pp 53 illus., incl. 16 in color 9781478011682 £20.99/ $26.95 PB 9781478010562 £83.00/ $99.95 HB

May 2021 200pp 16 b&w illus., 1 map 9781517911492 £16.99/ $21.95 PB

Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i Candace Fujikane

My Solo Journey to the South Pole Liv Arnesen Translated by Roland Huntford

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there. A tale of solitary adventure in the bleak and beau�ful bone-chilling cold of Antarc�ca, Skiing into the Bright Open tells a story of gri�y determina�on, thrilling achievement, and perseverance in the face of near despair and daun�ng odds.

Candace Fujikane draws upon Hawaiian legends about the land and water and their impact upon Na�ve Hawai‘ian struggles to argue that Na�ve economies of abundance provide a founda�on for collec�ve work against climate change. 2

Excludes Japan & ANZ


Unwritten Rule

Environment

State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia Alice Beban

Asphalt

A History Kenneth O'Reilly

Cornell Series on Land: New Perspec�ves on Territory, Development, and Environment April 2021 258pp 3 maps, 3 graphs 9781501754043 £23.99/ $29.95 PB 9781501753626 £95.00/ $115.00 HB

July 2021 328pp Index 9781496222077 £23.99/ $29.95 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Demonstrates that roads, parking lots, and civilian and military runways cons�tute the central arteries of our environment. Kenneth O’Reilly argues that although asphalt creates our environment, it eventually threatens it.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

In 2012, Cambodia—an epicenter of violent land grabbing—announced a bold new ini�a�ve to develop land redistribu�on efforts inside agribusiness concessions. Alice Beban's Unwri�en Rule focuses on this land reform to understand the larger nature of democracy in Cambodia.

At Home in the World

Banana Cultures

May 2021 222pp 5 photos, index 9781496207470 £16.99/ $21.95 PB

March 2021 384pp 9781477322802 £22.99/ $29.95 NIP

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement Kathleen A. Cairns

Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States John Soluri

Examines the extraordinary and largely unheralded role women played in forging the modern environmental movement, specifically in California.

Beginning in the 1870s when bananas first appeared in the U.S. marketplace, Soluri integrates agroecology, anthropology, poli�cal economy, and history to trace the symbio�c growth of the export banana industry in Honduras and the consumer mass market in the United States.

Black Snake

Consuming Ivory

Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys

Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England Alexandra Celia Kelly Series Edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

June 2021 336pp 28 photos, 1 map, index 9781496222664 £19.99/ $24.95 PB

Culture, Place, and Nature May 2021 280pp 29 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295748818 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748771 £76.00/ $95.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Black Snake tells the story of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline through the ac�vism of four women from Standing Rock and Fort Berthold Reserva�ons.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Drawing from extensive archival and field research in New England, Great Britain, and Tanzania, Alexandra Kelly inves�gates the complex global legacies of the historical ivory trade. 3


Empire and Catastrophe

First Nations Wildfire Evacuations

Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954 Spencer D. Segalla

A Guide for Communities and External Agencies Tara K. McGee & Amy Cardinal Christianson

March 2021 160pp 25 b&w photos, 10 maps 9780774880664 £15.99/ $25.00 PB

France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decoloniza�on May 2021 372pp 3 maps, index 9781496219633 £54.00/ $65.00 HB

UBC PRESS

Based on the experiences of evacuees from seven First Na�ons communi�es, this book offers guidance to Indigenous communi�es and external agencies on how to successfully plan for and carry out wildfire evacua�ons.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decoloniza�on in Algeria, Morocco, and France.

Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ

Fixing Niagara Falls

Fossilized

Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall Daniel Macfarlane

Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces Angela V. Carter Nature | History | Society May 2021 244pp 7 charts 9780774863537 £20.99/ $35.95 PB

Nature | History | Society March 2021 332pp 49 b&w photos 9780774864237 £20.99/ $35.95 PB

UBC PRESS

UBC PRESS

Reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador – blinded by excep�onal economic growth from 2005 to 2015 – undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extrac�on.

Long considered a natural wonder, the world’s most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and poli�cs behind the transforma�on of Niagara Falls. Offers a unique interdisciplinary and transborder perspec�ve on how the Niagara landscape embodies the power of technology and nature.

Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ

Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ

From Rails to Trails

From the Ground Up

The Making of America's Active Transportation Network Peter Harnik

Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement Luke W. Cole & Sheila R. Foster

May 2021 280pp 23 photos, 2 illus., 5 maps, 19 tables, 7 graphs, index 9781496222060 £15.99/ $19.95 PB

Cri�cal America November 2000 256pp 9780814715376 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9780814715369 £70.00/ $85.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

The fascina�ng tale of the railsto-trails movement as well as a considera�on of what the con�nued crea�on of rail-trails means for the future of Americans’ health, nonmotorized transporta�on networks, and communi�es across the country.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cri�cally examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States—the movement for environmental jus�ce. Cole and Foster combine long�me ac�vism with powerful storytelling to provide gripping case studies. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

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Hatched

Homewaters

May 2021 272pp 9780295748627 £18.99/ $24.95 HB

April 2021 256pp 8 maps, 38 b&w illus. 9780295748603 £22.99/ $29.95 HB

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement Gina G. Warren

A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound David B. Williams

Gina Warren digs into the history and food poli�cs of the backyard chicken movement. A fresh and charming story that raises ques�ons about sustainable farming, industrial agriculture, and our connec�ons with the animals we love.

In conversa�ons with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authori�es, David B. Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around Puget Sound, weaving history and science into a fascina�ng and hopeful narra�ve.

Mapping Water in Dominica

No Wood, No Kingdom Political Ecology in the English Atlantic Keith Pluymers

Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism Mark W. Hauser Series Edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

The Early Modern Americas May 2021 296pp 13 illus. 9780812253078 £41.00/ $49.95 HB

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Culture, Place, and Nature May 2021 280pp 10 b&w illus., 18 maps, 2 charts, 7 tables 9780295748726 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748719 £76.00/ $95.00 HB

No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflic�ng a�empts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of 18th-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves.

Our Changing Menu

Palisades

Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr & Danielle L. Eiseman

The People's Park Robert O. Binnewies May 2021 368pp 9780823293698 £32.00/ $39.95 PB 9780823293704 £111.00/ $140.00 HB

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

April 2021 264pp 61 b&w hal�ones 9781501754623 £14.99/ $18.95 PB

The Palisades park and historic site system in New York and New Jersey is a significant anchor-point for the spread of na�onal and state parks across the US. Robert O. Binnewies tells how famous and not-so-famous ci�zens worked to build a park legacy of incomparable benefit.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex rela�onships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, dis�ller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's �me to come to terms with how climate change is affec�ng our diverse and interwoven food system. 5


Pollution Is Colonialism

Slow Disturbance

Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier Rafico Ruiz

Max Liboiron

May 2021 216pp 10 illus. 9781478014133 £20.99/ $25.95 PB 9781478013228 £83.00/ $99.95 HB

Sign, Storage, Transmission April 2021 248pp 102 illus. 9781478008507 £20.99/ $25.95 PB 9781478007982 £83.00/ $99.95 HB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Max Liboiron models an an�colonial scien�fic prac�ce aligned with Indigenous concepts of land, ethics, and rela�ons to outline the entanglements of capitalism, colonialism, and environmental science.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Rafico Ruiz uses the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to theorize how se�ler colonialism establishes itself through the building, maintenance, and media�on of sitespecific infrastructure.

Solarity

The Beekeeper's Handbook

Edited by Darin Barney & Imre Szeman

Diana Sammataro & Alphonse Avitabile Foreword by Dewey M. Caron

December 2020 228pp 13 illus. 9781478021148 £12.99/ $16.00 PB

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

April 2021 368pp 111 b&w hal�ones, 1 chart, 1 graph 9781501752612 £23.99/ $29.95 PB

In the shadow of climate change, it is common to presume that solar energy is the big solu�on to our energy problems. The contributors to this special issue address the overlapping rela�onships, strategies, and conflicts that will a�end this latest and perhaps last energy transi�on under the term "solarity."

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have created the best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping. The Beekeeper's Handbook provides step-by-step instruc�ons for se�ng up an apiary, handling bees, and working throughout the season to maintain a healthy colony and a generous supply of honey.

The Government of Natural Resources

The Greater Plains

Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories Edited by Brian Frehner & Kathleen A. Brosnan

Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939 Stéphane Castonguay Translated by Käthe Roth

July 2021 426pp 10 photos, 5 illus., 8 maps, 3 tables, 3 figures, index 9781496226471 £23.99/ $30.00 PB 9781496225078 £82.00/ $99.00 HB

Nature | History | Society April 2021 208pp 12 b&w photos, 21 maps, 12 charts/diagrams, 4 tables 9780774866309 £49.00/ $75.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

UBC PRESS

This collec�on of essays represents an a�empt to move beyond degrada�on and exploita�on as the defining ecological narra�ves of the Great Plains by examining the region through the interrelated themes of water, grasses, animals, and energy.

Explores government scien�fic ac�vity in Quebec from Confedera�on un�l the Second World War. A revealing look at how science can extend state power through territorial and environmental transforma�ons. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ

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Theory of the Earth

Timber and Forestry in Qing China

Thomas Nail

Sustaining the Market Meng Zhang Series Edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

April 2021 320pp 9781503627550 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503614956 £74.00/ $90.00 HB

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cra�ing a philosophy of geology that rewrites natural and human history from the broader perspec�ve of movement, Thomas Nail provides a new materialist, kine�c ethics of the earth that speaks to this moment.

Culture, Place, and Nature June 2021 264pp 4 b&w illus., 5 charts, 3 maps, 8 tables 9780295748870 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748863 £76.00/ $95.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Standard environmental histories have o�en depicted the Qing period (1644–1912) as an era of reckless deforesta�on. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex.

Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds

Watershed

Attending to Body and Earth in Distress Ranae Lenor Hanson

Edited by David L. Haberman

May 2021 200pp 9781517910976 £15.99/ $19.95 PB

May 2021 324pp 11 b&w photos 9780253056047 £27.99/ $35.00 PB 9780253056054 £70.00/ $85.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a medita�on on in�mate connec�ons between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds offers a transna�onal view of how religion reconciles the concepts of the global and the local and influences the challenges of climate change.

Excludes Japan & ANZ

Wetlands in a Dry Land

Urban Studies

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin Emily O'Gorman Seried Edited by Paul S. Sutter

Atmospheric Noise

The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles Marina Peterson

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books July 2021 296pp 14 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295749150 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295749037 £76.00/ $95.00 HB

Elements February 2021 256pp 21 illus. 9781478011828 £20.99/ $25.95 PB 9781478010708 £83.00/ $99.95 HB

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Emily O'Gorman examines how people have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today, and argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of rela�onships with and futures for them.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and ma�er that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise at Los Angeles Interna�onal Airport. 7


Building a Better Chicago

Electrifying Mexico

Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City Diana Montaño

Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment Teresa Irene Gonzales

August 2021 392pp 9781477323458 £40.00/ $50.00 HB

La�na/o Sociology June 2021 224pp 31 b/w illus. 9781479814886 £23.99/ $30.00 PB 9781479839759 £74.00/ $89.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

Explores the role of electricity in Mexico’s economic and poli�cal evolu�on, as the coal-deficient country pioneered large-scale hydroelectricity and sought to face the world as a scien�fically enlightened “empire of peace.”

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Despite promises from poli�cians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools, and gang ac�vity. Gonzales shows us how, and why, these promises have gone unfulfilled. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Evaluating Urban and Regional Plans

Furthering Fair Housing

From Theory to Practice Mark Seasons

Prospects for Racial Justice in America's Neighborhoods Edited by Justin P. Steil, Nicholas F. Kelly, Lawrence J. Vale & Maia S. Woluchem

March 2021 240pp 37 charts/diagrams, 16 tables 9780774866262 £28.99/ $45.00 PB

UBC PRESS

March 2021 278pp 9781439920725 £88.00/ $110.50 HB

The first text of its kind in Canada, blends theory and prac�ce to delineate the ques�ons that planners need to ask as they shape the future of Canadian communi�es. This invaluable resource offers a wealth of pragma�c guidance on plan evalua�on processes and methods.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Analyzes mul�ple dimensions of the 2015 Affirma�vely Furthering Fair Housing Rule. Measures the Rule’s effects before its rescission in 2020, and shows how the policy can be revived to advance racial equity.

Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ

Excludes Asia Pacific

Lakefront

Land Fictions

Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago Joseph D. Kearney & Thomas W. Merrill

The Commodification of Land in City and Country Edited by D. Asher Ghertner & Robert W. Lake

May 2021 376pp 74 b&w hal�ones, 16 maps 9781501754654 £27.99/ $34.95 HB

Cornell Series on Land: New Perspec�ves on Territory, Development, and Environment March 2021 342pp 11 b&w hal�ones, 4 maps, 1 graph 9781501753961 £27.99/ $34.95 PB 9781501753732 £95.00/ $115.00 HB

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront—its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, poli�cal, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly over �me, only to produce, as a kind of miracle, a generally happy ending.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Land Fic�ons interrogates global pa�erns of property forma�on, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evic�ons and land grabs. 8


Neighbourhood Houses

Nuclear Suburbs

Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale

Building Community in Vancouver Edited by Miu Chung Yan and Sean R. Lauer Foreword by David Hulchanski

February 2021 304pp 9 b&w illus., 6 maps, 4 tables 9781517900298 £23.99/ $30.00 PB 9781517900281 £99.00/ $120.00 HB

March 2021 288pp 2 b&w photos, 16 charts and diagrams, 14 tables 9780774865814 £59.00/ $89.95 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pi�sburgh during the Cold War. Using oral histories, Vitale follows nuclear engineers and scien�sts throughout and beyond the Pi�sburgh region to understand how the poli�cs of technoscience and the Cold War were embedded in daily life.

UBC PRESS

Documents how the neighbourhood house model, a century-old type of community organiza�on, can help overcome isola�on in urban neighbourhoods by crea�ng welcoming places.

Excludes Japan & ANZ

Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ

Private Metropolis

Pushed Out

The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance Edited by Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie & Alba Alexander

Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West Ryanne Pilgeram May 2021 224pp 11 b&w illus., 1 map 9780295748696 £22.99/ $30.00 PB 9780295748689 £76.00/ $95.00 HB

Globaliza�on and Community June 2021 312pp 8 b&w illus., 4 tables 9781517910822 £23.99/ $30.00 PB 9781517910815 £99.00/ $120.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Based on in-depth interviews and archival data, this highly readable ethnography explores the structural forces driving rural gentrifica�on and examines how social and environmental inequality are wri�en onto these landscapes.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and priva�zed ins�tu�ons that mobilize and administer many of the poli�cal, administra�ve, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions. Excludes Japan & ANZ

Quietly Shrinking Cities

Sunnyside Gardens

April 2021 224pp 12 tables, 11 charts/ diagrams, 4 maps 9780774866163 £49.00/ $75.00 HB

April 2021 272pp 45 black and white illus. 9780823293803 £26.99/ $34.95 PB 9780823293810 £100.00/ $125.00 HB

Planning and Preservation in a Historic Garden Suburb Jeffrey A. Kroessler Illustrated by Laura A. Heim

Canadian Urban Population Loss in an Age of Growth Maxwell Hartt

UBC PRESS

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

The first major study of its kind in Canada, examines the conceptual and empirical evolu�on of Canadian urban popula�on loss. Demonstrates that shrinking ci�es need to rethink their planning and development strategies in response to a new demographic reality.

Richly illustrated throughout with historic and contemporary photographs as well as architectural plans of houses, blocks, and courts, Sunnyside Gardens is the first book devoted to this landmark of architecture, urban planning, and social engineering.

Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ

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The End of the Village

The Migrant's Paradox

Globaliza�on and Community June 2021 336pp 45 b&w illus. 9781517910921 £20.99/ $27.00 PB 9781517910914 £89.00/ $108.00 HB

Globaliza�on and Community March 2021 256pp 19 b&w illus. 9781517910501 £20.99/ $27.00 PB 9781517910495 £89.00/ $108.00 HB

Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Nick R. Smith

Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain Suzanne M. Hall

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Since the 21st century, China has expanded its urbaniza�on processes in an effort to reduce the inequali�es between urban and rural areas. The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbaniza�on and its consequences for China’s villagers.

In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five ci�es in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradic�ons of sovereignty and capitalism in the forma�on of street livelihoods in the urban margins. Excludes Japan & ANZ

Excludes Japan & ANZ

The Radical Bookstore

The Speculative City

March 2021 368pp 10 b&w illus. 9781517909185 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781517909178 £93.00/ $112.00 HB

March 2021 328pp 90 b&w illus., 21 color plates 9781517903183 £27.99/ $35.00 PB 9781517903176 £116.00/ $140.00 HB

Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder

Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements. Kinder explores the remarkably enduring presence of radical bookstores in America and how they provide infrastructure for organizing— gathering places, retail offerings that draw new people into what she calls “counterspaces.”

Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Specula�ve City, Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one another’s evolu�on. Excludes Japan & ANZ

Excludes Japan & ANZ

Design, Control, Predict

Recent Highlights

Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles

Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro

The Future of Europe's Last Primeval Forest Eunice Blavascunas

December 2020 344pp 15 B-W illus. 9781517908270 £21.99/ $28.00 PB 9781517908263 £93.00/ $112.00 HB

September 2020 236pp 20 b&w illus., 1 map 9780253049605 £18.99/ $24.00 PB 9780253049582 £62.00/ $75.00 HB

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Technology has fundamentally transformed urban life. But today’s “smart” ci�es look li�le like what experts had predicted. Aaron Shapiro shows us the true face of the revolu�on in urban technology, taking the reader on a tour of today’s smart city.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Blavascunas provides an in�mate ethnographic account of Europe’s last primeval forest, gathered in more than 20 years of research, to untangle complex forest conflicts between protec�on and use.

Excludes Japan & ANZ

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