{"product_id":"landscapes-of-power-and-identity-9780822336891","title":"Landscapes of Power and Identity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis comparative frontier history explores the  role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There has been much talk about comparative history but precious little of it in the Spanish colonial period. Cynthia Radding has led the way.”— David J. Weber, Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University\u003cbr\u003e“This is a beautifully written comparative frontier history that balances in-depth historical analysis of two relatively unexplored regions on the edge of the Spanish empire against broader insights into the active role that ecologies played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization over long periods of time. With this book, Cynthia Radding takes the ‘new environmental history’ of conquest and colonization to a new level.”—Brooke Larson, author of \u003ci\u003eTrials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Carefully researched and clearly written, \u003ci\u003eLandscapes of Power and Identity\u003c\/i\u003e provides an illuminating comparison of the environmental history of Spanish colonialism. . . . \u003ci\u003eLandscapes of Power and Identity\u003c\/i\u003e will be an illuminating read for specialists in a variety of fields including environmental history, borderlands history, and Spanish colonial history and a model for all those scholars interested in pursuing comparative history.” -- Rachel St. John * Western Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations xiii\u003cbr\u003e Preface xv\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Savannas and Deserts: Two Histories of Cultural Landscapes 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ecological and Cultural Frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos 19\u003cbr\u003e 2. Political Economy: Communities, Missions, and Colonial Markets 55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Territory: Community and Conflicting Claims to Property 89\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities 117\u003cbr\u003e 5. Power Negotiated, Power Defied: Politial Culture, Governance, and \u003cbr\u003eMobilization 162\u003cbr\u003e 6. Priests and Shamans: Spiritual Power, Ritual, and Knowledge 196\u003cbr\u003e 7. Postcolonial Landscapes: Transitions from Colony to Republic 240\u003cbr\u003e 8. Contested Landscapes in Continental Borderlands 295\u003cbr\u003e Notes 327\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 375\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 385\u003cbr\u003e Index 423","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406040539479,"sku":"9780822336891","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822336891.jpg?v=1730494338","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landscapes-of-power-and-identity-9780822336891","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}