Ranked #1
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
In his new book, Matthew Longo takes the reader on an unusual journey, at least within political theory, since his work ... Read more
4 Feb 2019
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55mins
Ranked #2
Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Alyssa M. Park, “Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Even in states where borders and sovereignty are supposedly well established, large movements of transnational migrants ... Read more
13 Jan 2020
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #3
Betty S. Anderson, “A History of the Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues (Stanford UP, 2016)
Betty S. Anderson, “A History of the Middle East: Rulers, Rebels, and Rogues (Stanford UP, 2016)
As the Middle East continues to become more topical to American and European audiences, a need for textbooks to teach th... Read more
16 Aug 2017
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27mins
Ranked #4
Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends" (Springer, 2019)
Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends" (Springer, 2019)
Chet Van Duzer's new book Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends (Sp... Read more
6 Dec 2019
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59mins
Ranked #5
Matthew Edney, "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Matthew Edney, "Cartography: The Ideal and Its History" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and... Read more
25 Jun 2019
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59mins
Ranked #6
Ernesto Bassi, “An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World” (Duke UP, 2017)
Ernesto Bassi, “An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World” (Duke UP, 2017)
Where is the Caribbean?In An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean Wor... Read more
23 Aug 2017
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46mins
Ranked #7
Toby Lester, “The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America its Name” (Free Press, 2009)
Toby Lester, “The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America its Name” (Free Press, 2009)
Why the heck is “America” called “America” and not, say, “Columbia?” You’ll find the answer to that question and many mo... Read more
7 Jan 2010
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #8
Mark Monmonier, "Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography" (ESRI Press, 2019)
Mark Monmonier, "Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography" (ESRI Press, 2019)
In Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography (ESRI Press, 2019), cartographic cogi... Read more
27 Sep 2019
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #9
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social ... Read more
3 Dec 2019
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57mins
Ranked #10
Kate McDonald, “Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan” (U California Press, 2017)
Kate McDonald, “Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan” (U California Press, 2017)
Kate McDonald‘s Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of California Press, 201... Read more
1 Aug 2018
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56mins
Ranked #11
David Bissell, "Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities" (MIT Press, 2018)
David Bissell, "Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities" (MIT Press, 2018)
What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we... Read more
20 May 2019
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #12
Larry Wolff, "Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Larry Wolff, "Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe" (Stanford UP, 2020)
At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the afterm... Read more
6 Mar 2020
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58mins
Ranked #13
Linda Grover, “Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)
Linda Grover, “Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)
Onigamiising is the Ojibwemowin word for Duluth and the surrounding area. In this book of fifty warm, wise and witty ess... Read more
11 Jan 2018
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44mins
Ranked #14
Amanda Huron, “Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.” (University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
Amanda Huron, “Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.” (University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
Is modern capitalism too far advanced in the U.S. to create common property regimes? Are there models for what an Urban ... Read more
21 Jun 2018
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38mins
Ranked #15
William D. Bryan, “The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
William D. Bryan, “The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Southern capitalists of the postbellum era have been called many things, but never conservationists. Until now. Environm... Read more
23 Aug 2018
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56mins
Ranked #16
Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore" (U California Press, 2016)
Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore" (U California Press, 2016)
“Wilderness,” “nature,” and their “preservation” are concepts basic to how the National Park Service organizes our relat... Read more
16 Jul 2019
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #17
Christof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit" (Island Press, 2018)
Christof Spieler, "Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit" (Island Press, 2018)
Christof Spieler, PE, LEED AP, is a Vice President and Director of Planning at Huitt-Zollars and a lecturer in Architect... Read more
22 Apr 2019
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48mins
Ranked #18
Gary Fields, “Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror” (U California Press, 2017)
Gary Fields, “Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror” (U California Press, 2017)
Inspired by the usage of the term ‘enclosure’ to describe the Separation Wall in Israel-Palestine on a visit he made to ... Read more
16 Aug 2018
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54mins
Ranked #19
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citize... Read more
19 Mar 2019
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32mins
Ranked #20
Ryan D. Enos, “The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Ryan D. Enos, “The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Ryan Enos is the author of The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Enos ... Read more
19 Oct 2017
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24mins