Landscapes of Power And Identity : Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Deser...

by Cynthia Radding

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Landscapes of Power And Identity : Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert And the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic, Paperback by Radding Murrieta, Cynthia, ISBN 0822336898, ISBN-13 9780822336891, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Landscapes of Power and Identity is a groundbreaking comparative history of two colonies on the frontiers of the Spanish empire&;the Sonora region of northwestern Mexico and the Chiquitos region of eastern Bolivia&;s lowlands&;from the late colonial period through the middle of the nineteenth century. An innovative combination of environmental and cultural history, this book reflects Cynthia Radding&;s more than two decades of research on Mexico and Bolivia and her consideration of the relationships between human societies and the geographic landscapes they inhabit and create. At first glance, Sonora and Chiquitos are quite different: one a scrub-covered desert, the other a tropical rainforest of the greater Amazonian and Paraguayan river basins. Yet the regions are similar in many ways. Both were located far from the centers of colonial authority, organized into Jesuit missions and linked to the principal mining centers of New Spain and the Andes, and then absorbed into nation-states in the nineteenth century. In each area, the indigenous communities encountered European governors, missionaries, slave hunters, merchants, miners, and ranchers. Radding&;s comparative approach illuminates what happened when similar institutions of

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 2006
• ISBN: 9780822336891
• Condition: Fine

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