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If you are interested in reviewing one of the following books or have suggestions for a book to be reviewed in the Southeastern Geographer, please contact Joby Bass, Book Review Editor (joby@usm.edu).


Segal, Uma, Doreen Elliott, and Nazneen Mayadas.  2010.  Immigration Worldwide: policies, practices, and trends.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Mayhew, Susan.  2009.  Oxford Dictionary of Geography, Fourth Edition.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Abbott, Lynn and Doug Seroff.  2007.  Ragged But Right: black traveling shows, “coon songs” and the dark pathway to blues and jazz.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Harris, Richard.  2012. Building a Market: the rise of the home improvement industry, 1914-1960. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Nicholls, Robert.  2012.  The Jumbies’ Playing Ground: old world influences on Afro-Creole masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Keller, Dana.  2006.  The Tao of Statistics: a path to understanding with no math.  New Dehli: Sage Publcations.

Lane, Maria.  2011.  Geographies of Mars: seeing and knowing the red planet.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bassett, Thomas and Alex Winter-Nelson.  The Atlas of World Hunger.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kinkela, David.  2011.  DDT and the American Century:  global health, environmental politics, and the pesticide that changed the world.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press.

Bronner, Simon.  2012.  Campus Traditions: folklore from the old-time college to the modern mega-university.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Falconer, Tim.  2008.  Drive: a road trip through our complicated affair with the automobile.  Toronto: Viking.

Emison, Gerald and John Morris.  2010.  Speaking Green with a Southern Accent: environmental management and innovation in the South.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Hudson, Angela.  2010.  Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, settlers, and slaves and the making of the American South.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press.

Lowery, Malinda.  2010.  Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: race, identity and the making of a nation.  Chapel Hill: UNC Press.