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Landscapes Of Power And Identity. Comparative Histories In The Sonoran Desert And The Forests Of Amazonia. Endnotes To The Book., Cynthia Radding
Landscapes Of Power And Identity. Comparative Histories In The Sonoran Desert And The Forests Of Amazonia. Endnotes To The Book., Cynthia Radding
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Landscapes of Power and Identity presents three interrelated stories, starting with the authors personal journey over two decades of research and reflection about the relationships between human societies and the environments they create in North and South America. It links her experiences to the histories of conquest, native communities, and the colonial societies they helped to shape in two frontier regions of Spanish America: northwestern Mexico and eastern Bolivia. Beginning with the title, this book explores nuanced meanings of landscapes coming from art history, landscape architecture, history and anthropology. It makes special contributions as a comparative history grounded in extensive …