Journal of Cultural Geography articles from March 22 2007

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from March 22 2007

Black Rock.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Black Rock. By Peter Goin, and Paul F. Starrs. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005. Preface, source citations, bibliography, list of illustrations, acknowledgments, and index, xv+273 pp. $50.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-87417-591-7. With...

Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History. Edited by Thomas Lekan, and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Acknowledgments, notes on editors and contributors, and index. vii+266 pp. $54.95...

The Invention of the Park: From the Garden of Eden to Disney's Magic Kingdom.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Invention of the Park: From the Garden of Eden to Disney's Magic Kingdom. By Karen R. Jones, and John Wills. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2005. Notes, guide to further reading, bibliography, and index, i+216 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN:...

Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity. By Setha Low, Dana Taplin, and Suzanne Scheld. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, references, and index, xii+226 pp. $22.95 paper. ISBN:...

Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945. By David L. Pike. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. List of illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, notes, and index, xvii+355 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8014-7256-3. ...

Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert. By Patricia Gober. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Foreword, notes, index, and acknowledgments, x+233 pp. $59.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-8122-3899-0. ...

On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape. By William Wyckoff. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, bibliographic essay, illustration credits and index, xvii+180 pp. $26.95 paper. ISBN:...

Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway. By Arthur Krim. Santa Fe: Center for American Places, 2005. List of figures, preface, acknowledgments, notes, and index, xix+220 pp. $35.00 hardback. ISBN: 1-930-066-35-X. Route 66 brings...

Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Samuel Truett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Acknowledgments, notes, bibliography and index, xii+259 pp. $40.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-300-11091-X. In...

Gender and Landscape: Renegotiating Morality and Space.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Gender and Landscape: Renegotiating Morality and Space. Edited by Lorraine Dowler, Josephine Carubia, and Bonj Szczygiel. London: Routledge, 2005. List of figures, acknowledgments, and index, xii+292 pp. $130.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-415-33949-9....

Indigenous beliefs and environmental stewardship: a rural Ghana experience.
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT. Despite recent interest in indigenous knowledge, few studies have linked it with indigenous beliefs system and its role in environmental stewardship. This link is important to cultural geographers interested in the study of...

Bridging the technology gap: building a development model for rural Alaska (1).
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT. Using results from a three-year (2003-2006) National Science Foundation "Partnership for Innovation" project undertaken in Native Alaska, this paper addresses if and how Information Technologies (IT) can be incorporated into...

Cultural norms and political mobilization: accounting for local and state-level liquor laws, 1907-1919.
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT. During the decade prior to the adoption of federal prohibition in 1920, states across the country created local and statewide laws banning alcohol sales. This paper examines the relationship between cultural groups (urban, religious,...

Yellowstone as "landscape idea": Thomas Moran and the pictorial practices of gilded-age western exploration.
March 22, 2007... ABSTRACT. Between 1869 and 1872, Yellowstone's Upper Valley was explored and transformed from a terra incognita into the world's first national park. While locally organized exploration played an integral role in the emergence and diffusion of...