gagement he documents. More than once, he adduces Richard Sennett’s notion of the “tyranny of intimacy” (7, 133). He seems to second Jacobs’s remark that “togetherness” is a “nauseating” (134) ideal by which to organize urban life. Th e socialrealist melodramas of the New Deal, spelled out in embarrassing detail, for him mark the “exhaustion” (69) of sympathy, a “simplifi ed and unimaginative discourse” (74) that “will inevitably fall short” (70) of channeling urban variety into something nourishing and new. Rowan and his thinkers enshrine “sophistication” of thought— a watchword of the early New Yorker— “nuanced and enriched” (13) emotional palettes, and a Trillingian “complexity” in all things. He shows a refreshing skepticism toward sentimentalisms on the right and left alike— sententious old saws regarding the family bond on one hand, readymade “consciousness” or “brotherhood” on the other. Although he acknowledges that Jacobs could descend into romanticism— the famous “sidewalk ballet” scene from Death and Life can come off as a laissezfaire fantasia— he mostly commends her urge to cast “webs” of association in which the units, always under construction, are “peoples,” not “persons” (134). Th e Sociable City is an act of recovery, a taut intellectual history dense with insights on the surfaces and depths of urban life. It is also, albeit more obliquely, a work of advocacy. Geographers attentive to just about any of the episodes constellated within will fi nd truly new ways to situate and debate the sense they made.
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operated the new stadiums for the new teams. Th is chapter is an excellent look at regional labor diff erences in the United States. Sport in academia has been an understudied and undervalued topic. While oft en studied, mostly the topic is seen as a side project or “fun piece” for scholars. However, over the past few years, critical sports geographies have started to appear, and Ross’s work fi ts squarely into that category. Th e book is an excellent examination of sport and labor in America, which off ers the reader a critical study of capitalism in America and its eff ects on diff erent parts of society. Th e one thing that seems to be lacking most in Ross’s examination, though, is what sort of lasting impact the Players League had on capitalism and baseball, or sport in general, moving forward. While I think the book does an excellent job of introducing people to the topic and off ers valuable insights into labor and early sports in American, I also feel that Th e Great Baseball Revolt leaves the reader with several questions unanswered. Th is book is both well written and well researched, and the author does an excellent job of making this material accessible for nonacademics without losing any of the scholarship required of such a work. I recommend this book to not just scholars of sport, labor, and urban geography, but also to anyone who considers themselves a baseball fan. Th e Players League is a signifi cant event in the early history of baseball, and one, until now, that has been largely forgotten.
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{"title":"Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 by Briony McDonagh (review)","authors":"Ruth Larsen","doi":"10.1353/HGO.2018.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HGO.2018.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52459,"journal":{"name":"Historical Geography","volume":"46 1","pages":"333 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HGO.2018.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42516802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ties of Historical Geography and Critical Indigenous Studies","authors":"Michael D. Wise","doi":"10.1353/HGO.2018.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HGO.2018.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52459,"journal":{"name":"Historical Geography","volume":"46 1","pages":"239 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HGO.2018.0033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45038638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia by Claudia Leal (review)","authors":"K. Forbes-Boyte","doi":"10.1353/hgo.2018.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hgo.2018.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52459,"journal":{"name":"Historical Geography","volume":"46 1","pages":"327 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hgo.2018.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44387680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great Baseball Revolt: The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League by Robert B. Ross (review)","authors":"M. Hawkins","doi":"10.1353/HGO.2018.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HGO.2018.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52459,"journal":{"name":"Historical Geography","volume":"46 1","pages":"344 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HGO.2018.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46171098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Barnsley Gardens is a former plantation in Adairsville, Georgia, once the home of English cotton magnate Godfrey Barnsley (1805–73). Barnsley Gardens is historically and regionally significant, modeling the tradition of designer Andrew Jackson Downing. It gained fame through its extravagant art collection, its fabulous gardens, and its many distinguished visitors. Numerous tragedies beset the family and led to the plantation's demise, creating an air of loss and melancholy, leaving the manor a vacant ruin for decades. An increased interest in historic preservation in the late twentieth century led to the revival of Barnsley Gardens and its transformation into an upscale resort, all while purposefully preserving the manor as a ruin. Through a landscape analysis, I argue that Barnsley Gardens was preserved as a ruin to maintain a material connection to the historical and mythical Old South, to tacitly evoke and retain the memory associated with the myth of the Lost Cause.
{"title":"Georgia's Barnsley Gardens: Preserving a Landscape of the Lost Cause","authors":"C. Wade","doi":"10.1353/HGO.2018.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/HGO.2018.0031","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Barnsley Gardens is a former plantation in Adairsville, Georgia, once the home of English cotton magnate Godfrey Barnsley (1805–73). Barnsley Gardens is historically and regionally significant, modeling the tradition of designer Andrew Jackson Downing. It gained fame through its extravagant art collection, its fabulous gardens, and its many distinguished visitors. Numerous tragedies beset the family and led to the plantation's demise, creating an air of loss and melancholy, leaving the manor a vacant ruin for decades. An increased interest in historic preservation in the late twentieth century led to the revival of Barnsley Gardens and its transformation into an upscale resort, all while purposefully preserving the manor as a ruin. Through a landscape analysis, I argue that Barnsley Gardens was preserved as a ruin to maintain a material connection to the historical and mythical Old South, to tacitly evoke and retain the memory associated with the myth of the Lost Cause.","PeriodicalId":52459,"journal":{"name":"Historical Geography","volume":"46 1","pages":"166 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/HGO.2018.0031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46403410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Louisiana Coastal Atlas: Resources, Economies, and Demographics by Scott A. Hemmerling (review)","authors":"T. E. Mack","doi":"10.1353/hgo.2018.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hgo.2018.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52459,"journal":{"name":"Historical Geography","volume":"46 1","pages":"324 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/hgo.2018.0021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42092607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kirsten Greer, Katie Hemsworth, A. Csank, Kirby Calvert
abstract:What does it mean to be interdisciplinary and integrative in the geophysical sciences and humanities, and more specifically across physical and historical geography? While some have viewed the "divide" between physical and human geography as a hindrance to interdisciplinary research, others have worked to blur and transcend the divisions to tackle global environmental problems from an integrative perspective. This special issue is framed specifically within the context of new work in critical physical geography (CPG) by showcasing geographical research that highlights the role of historical approaches in doing interdisciplinary research on human-environment relations. A key question moving forward asks: what exactly does being "critical" mean in the context of interdisciplinary approaches like CPG? For the editors of this issue, doing "critical" research of any kind means being reflexive about the uneven power relations that shape scientific and nonscientific knowledges alike (past and present), situating physical or material processes within sociohistorical contexts (for instance, in relation to capitalism, globalization, or systemic racism), and unpacking differential terminology and techniques to find commonalities alongside tensions across disciplines.
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Kirsten Greer, Katie Hemsworth, M. Farish, Andrew Smith
abstract:Scholars working on global environmental change research are increasingly seeing the value of collaborating on projects involving methodologies in the geophysical sciences and humanities to solve environmental problems such as climate change, soil erosion, and loss of biodiversity. Largely missing from these works, however, are histories of what might be considered earlier interdisciplinary scholarship by physical and human geographers, which are valuable for thinking about what it means to practice the interdisciplinary study of the environment. The purpose of this paper is to examine the understudied history of McGill University's Caribbean Project of the 1950s and 1960s, to consider what it might tell us about the histories of interdisciplinarity in (geographical) research. We seek to broaden understandings about the very nature of interdisciplinarity, including what may be called early exercises in critical physical geography, through an examination of this small but important and enduring Canadian program located in Barbados with its own complex historical geographies. Focusing on a few instrumental scholars involved in the Barbados project—including the climatologist Kenneth Hare, the cultural geographer Theo Hills, and the biogeographer David Watts—our contribution draws on primary materials (correspondence, reports, memoranda, and research site plans) obtained through the McGill University Archives and the Bancroft Library at Berkeley University, as well as close readings of McGill Geography's digitized Climatological Bulletins (1967–93), Climatological Research Series, and student theses and dissertations. We conclude by suggesting possible ways forward for future interdisciplinary research on this and other projects, involving physical and human geographers and historians as well as local participants.
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