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Volume 96, Issue 3, July 2006


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HUMBOLDT IN THE AMERICAS - Special Issue

Articles:

  Humboldt in the Americas; Kent Mathewson and Andrew Sluyter - Guest Editors: p. iii.

  Bridging the Americas: Humboldtian Legacies; Anne Buttimer: pp. vi-x.

  Humboldt's Nodes and Modes of Interdisciplinary Environmental Science in the Andean World; Karl S. Zimmerer: pp. 335-360.

  Humboldt's Mexican Texts and Landscapes; Andrew Sluyter: pp. 361-381.

  Humboldt and the Habitability of Canada's Great Northwest; Suzanne Zeller: pp. 382-398.

  Why was Humboldt Forgotten in the United States?; Sandra Nichols: pp. 399-415.

  Alexander von Humboldt's Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804-2004; Kent Mathewson: pp. 416-438.

Geographical Record:

  Exploring the Americas in a Humboldt Digital Library; Frank Baron and Detlev Doherr: pp. 439-451.

  Humboldt's Twenty-First-Century Currency: Recent Upwellings, Commemorations, and Critical Commentaries; Kent Mathewson: pp. 452-455.

  Humboldt and the History of Environmental Thought; Karl S. Zimmerer: pp. 456-458.

  The American Geographical Society Library: A Treasure Trove for Twenty-First-Century Geographical Scholarship; Christopher Baruth: pp. 459-472.

Geographical Review Essay

  The Search for Humboldt; Laura Dassow Walls: pp. 473-477.

Geographical Review Forum:

  Review Forum: Reflections on Charles Mann's 1491:

  A Year by Many Other Names; W. George Lovell, pp. 478-480.

  Why Can't Geographers Write Their Own Story?; Jerome E. Dobson, pp. 480-483.

  Charles Mann and Humanized Landscapes; William M. Denevan, pp. 483-486.

  Irrigation Waters Flow Downhill, Ears of Corn Roll Uphill; William E. Doolittle, pp. 487-489.

  Culture, Ecology, and the Classic Maya Collapse; B.L. Turner II, pp. 490-493.

  Mann in the Andes; Daniel W. Gade, pp. 494-496.

  Amazonia, 11,000+ B.C. to A.D. 1491; William I. Woods, pp. 496-499.

  Cultural Survival in Post-Contact Amazonia; Susanna B. Hecht pp. 499-502.

  Many Died, but Many Lived: Mann''s Revelations about an American Tragedy; Thomas M. Whitmore, pp. 502-505.

  The Journalist's Dilemma; Charles C. Mann, pp. 505-513.

Geographical Reviews:

  Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia; Edited by Daniela Dueck, Hugh Lindsay, and Sarah Pothecary. Reviewed by William A. Koelsch, pp. 514-516.

  Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humankind Took Control of Climate; By William F. Ruddiman. Reviewed by B.L. Turner II, ppp. 516-519.

  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed; By Jared Diamond. Reviewer: Mark Blumler, pp. 519-521.