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The Geographical Review April 1996: Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 161-316. Table of Contents Articles THE ECOLOGICAL ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF CATTLE RANCHING IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN By Andrew Sluyter DOI MOI POLICY AND THE SMALL-ENTERPRISE BOOM IN HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM By Donald B. Freeman SETTLEMENT OF PROPERTY CLAIMS IN FORMER EAST GERMANY By M. Blacksell, K. M. Born, and M. Bohlander STREAM CHANNELIZATION AND CHANGING VEGETATION PATTERNS IN THE U.S. COASTAL PLAIN By David Shankman THE CAPITAL CITIES OF JERUSALEM By Chad F. Emmett THE SOLITUDE OF SOLANELL By W. George Lovell   GEOGRAPHICAL RECORD NOTES Leading Ladies at the AGS By Douglas R. McManis Geography, First Peoples, and Social Justice By Martha L. Henderson   GEOGRAPHICAL FIELD NOTES Gender, Indigenous Knowledge, and Pastoral Resource Use in Moroccco By Diana Davis   GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS THE SHAPE OF TEXAS: Maps as Metaphors. By Richard V. Francaviglia..........Reviewed by Wilbur Zelinsky SAVING THE BEST OF TEXAS: A Partnership Approach to Conservation. By Richard C. Bartlett..........Reviewed by Byron D. Augustin REAL PLACES: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape. By Grady Clay..........Reviewed by Hilary Lambert Hopper UPSTATE ARCADIA: Landscape, Aesthetics, and the Triumph of Social Differentiation in America. By Peter J. Hugill..........Reviewed by Stephen J. Hornsby BARNS OF THE MIDWEST. Edited by Allen G. Noble and Hubert G. H. Wilhelm.........Reviewed by John Fraser Hart OUTDOOR RECREATION: United States National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands. By Charles I. Zinser...........Reviewed by Lary M. Dilsaver PLANT COMMUNITIES OF NEW JERSEY: A Study in Landscape Diversity. By Beryl Robichaud Collins and Karl H. Anderson..........Reviewed by Enid Lotstein Ringer THE GOVERNMENT OF WORLD CITIES: The Future of the Metro Model. Edited by J. L. Sharpe..........Reviewed by Peter O. Muller THE ADDED VALUE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. Edited by Marion J. C. de Lepper, Henk J. Scholten, and Richard M. Stern.......... Reviewed by Sandra Lach Arlinghaus THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY. Vol. 2, Book 2: CARTOGRAPHY IN THE TRADITIONAL EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN SOCIETIES. Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward..........Reviewed by Antonia Hussey THE CHALLENGES OF HIGHLAND DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM. Edited by Terry A. Rambo, Robert R. Reed, Le Trong Cuc, and Michael R. DiGregorio..........Reviewed by David Kummer COMMUNITY IN POST-MAO CHINA. Edited by Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth J. Perry..........Reviewed by Yu Zhou BEIJING: The Nature and Planning of a Chinese Capital City. By Victor F. Sit..........Reviewed by Laurence J. C. Ma BEYOND THE GREAT WALL: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontiers By Piper Rae Gaubatz..........Reviewed by Paul Wheatley