A full listing of my books is available in my cv. You can preview them at Google. Most are available for purchase at Amazon and ebooks. A sample:
- 2024 Insurrection. Reaktion.
- 2024 Human Geography (3rd ed) Oxford University Press.
- 2023 The Urban Now. Edward Elgar.
- 2022 The Rise and Fall of The National Atlas. Anthem/Cambridge University Press.
- 2021 Geopolitics: Making Sense of a Changing World. Rowman and Littlefield.
- 2021 Stress Testing The USA (2nd ed) Palgrave Macmillan.
- 2019 World Regional Geography. Oxford University Press.
- 2018 Regional Geography of the United States and Canada: Toward A Sustainable Future. Rowman and Littlefield (Co-authored with Lisa Benton-Short and Chris Mayda).
- 2018 Hosting The Olympic Games: The Real Costs for Cities. Routledge.
- 2018 The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and The Making of Inequality in Global Cities. Routledge. (Translated into Persian).
- 2018 Human Geography: A Short Introduction (2nd ed.) Oxford University Press.
- 2014 Urban Theory (2nd ed.) Palgrave Macmillan. (Translated into Chinese and Persian).
- 2014 Human Geography: A Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
- 2013 Cities and Nature (2nd ed.) Routledge (Co-authored with Lisa Benton-Short) (Translated into Chinese and French).
- 2012 Korea: A Cartographic History. University of Chicago Press (Translated into Korean).
- 2012 Globalization, Modernity and The City. Routledge.
- 2010 Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US. Routledge (Co-authored with B. Hanlon and T. Vicino).
- 2009 Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and The Exploration of The New World. Reaktion/University of Chicago Press.
- 2008 Cities and Economy. Routledge (Co-authored with Y. Kim). (Translated into Persian).
- 2007 Liquid City: Megalopolis Revisited. Resources for The Future Press/Johns Hopkins University Press.
- 2005 Imagined Country. Syracuse University Press (Reprint with new introduction).
- 2004 Making Space: Revisioning The World, 1475-1600. Syracuse University Press.
- 2004 Global Metropolitan. Routledge. (Translated into Persian).
- 2004 Representing The Republic. Reaktion/University of Chicago Press.
- 2003 The World Through Maps. Firefly (Translated into Japanese).
- 2001 Global Dimensions: Space, Place and The Contemporary World. Reaktion University of Chicago Press (Translated into Chinese).
- 2000 Alternative Geographies. Prentice Hall.
Hosting The Olympic Games: The Real Costs for Cities
Cited by experts as one of best books on Olympics:
Recent reviews of my books
Insurrection (2024)
This highly readable study will appeal to anyone seeking to make sense of the uprising that forever changed modern American politics. A concise and incisive look at a democracy in peril.
Kirkus Review
This highly readable study will appeal to anyone seeking to make sense of the uprising that forever changed modern American politics. A concise and incisive look at a democracy in peril.
Kirkus Review
Thoughtful study of the polarisation in the United States that led to the attack on Congress.
The Independent
The Independent
Provides a 'profound' analysis of the facts underlying the invasion of Washington's Capitol on January 6th 2021, offering a deeper context for understanding the uprising, and examining conspiracy theories and the politics of outrage.
The Bookseller
The Bookseller
It is written in an entertaining manner which means that it should appeal to a wider audience than many political, academic books might…. an insightful read… this is a well-written, engaging book about a time that all of us should be trying our hardest to understand.
Bookmuch
Bookmuch
The author explores the deep flaws in US democracy that spawned the Trumpian virus in a swamp of racial and demographic division and resurgent ethno-nationalism, but also the peculiar ego of the individual who has exploited them.... offers a searing analysis of the long and short-term factors that put a demagogue in the White House and culminated in a near fatal challenge to US democracy.
Morning Star
Morning Star
The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century (2022)
“A highly significant work not only for cartographic studies but also for historians of nationalism. Properly wide-ranging and clearly argued, this important work deserves much attention.”
Jeremy Black, author of Maps and History.
The book is an engaging discussion of the history and the histories of national atlases around the world. By using abundant visual material, the author delivers a cartographic tour-de-force to point out connections between nation-state, territory, and maps in the twentieth century.
Jorn Seemann, Professor of Geography, Ball State University, USA.
Jorn Seemann, Professor of Geography, Ball State University, USA.
This compelling new history shows how nations used the power of maps to advance their interests. Short’s wide-ranging survey spans the globe in an era of rising and falling empires, global warfare, and expanding economies. It reveals how modernizing states pictured themselves to the world with cartography.
Dr. S. Max Edelson, Department of History, University of Virginia, USA.
Dr. S. Max Edelson, Department of History, University of Virginia, USA.
In this path-breaking, clearly written and altogether delightful read, John Rennie Short utilizes a critical-theory approach to address the production and content of national atlases as instruments of statecraft—interrogating ‘connections between nation-state, science, territory and power’…always engaging, Short provides what I personally hope will become a provocative statement on national atlases. May this first-attempt to grapple comprehensively with the immensity of this particular form of cartographic statecraft spur new interest in their production and an entirely new body of research about them.
Imago Mundi
Imago Mundi
Short explores how various aspects of national atlases—from the classic representation of physical space to the more recent theme of biopolitics—help show what the governing bodies of those nations felt was important about their citizens. His discussions of the significant roles that atlases play in nations' identities and what national atlases show about the state of the world at particular historical moments are especially interesting. It makes effective use of illustrations to explain various aspects of national atlases and is overall logically organized and readable. An excellent introduction to national atlases and their place in history. Highly recommended.
Choice
The book clearly delivers a review of how cartography has been used to show how states see themselves in the world. The author to his credit does an excellent job.
The Portolan
Choice
The book clearly delivers a review of how cartography has been used to show how states see themselves in the world. The author to his credit does an excellent job.
The Portolan
Hosting The Olympic Games (2018)
If you want to study the impact of the Olympic Games on the host city, this book is a good choice. The book reveals the true cost of hosting these large-scale sports events to the city in an easy-to-understand way. It reveals the financing of the Olympics, reviews existing research on evaluating costs and benefits, and draws on the experience of case studies from the summer and winter Olympics over the past 40 years to assess the short- and long-term urban heritage of the host city. At the same time, the book provides an in-depth critical analysis of the franchise model of the International Olympic Committee and provides another vision model for the future Olympic Games. https://min.news/en/sport/125cf17f856f574d6d363a111569763c.html
If you want to study the impact of the Olympic Games on the host city, this book is a good choice. The book reveals the true cost of hosting these large-scale sports events to the city in an easy-to-understand way. It reveals the financing of the Olympics, reviews existing research on evaluating costs and benefits, and draws on the experience of case studies from the summer and winter Olympics over the past 40 years to assess the short- and long-term urban heritage of the host city. At the same time, the book provides an in-depth critical analysis of the franchise model of the International Olympic Committee and provides another vision model for the future Olympic Games. https://min.news/en/sport/125cf17f856f574d6d363a111569763c.html
John R. Short is another scholar who has been blowing the whistle on the hidden costs of Olympic Games, especially for host cities, for many years. In this recent release, written for a popular audience, he provides some history of the Games, but, more importantly, a step-by-step breakdown of why the Olympics costs cities much more than the IOC or bidding committees would like you to believe.
https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-olympics-that-the-ioc-doesnt-want-you-to-know
https://shepherd.com/best-books/the-olympics-that-the-ioc-doesnt-want-you-to-know
A Research Agenda for Cities (2017)
This edited collection seizes upon what its editor calls “the urban moment”, to address some of the most pressing issues affecting cities worldwide…the aim is to give the flavour of contemporary debates in urban studies, which show the range of ways that the modern city can be analysed. What these diverse chapters share is a concern with exclusion and power relations – interrogating who loses and who gains from urban changes and ways of conceptualizing those changes…Together, these chapters show how contested urban change is…or should be.
Enviroment and Urbanization
A timely and topical book that explores the current century of the city …provides a series of theoretically informed and empirically driven example of the urban moment in action…highly accessible… richness of this volume.
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal
Recommended
Choice
Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal
Recommended
Choice
