Landscapes of Power and Identity : Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic /

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This comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Radding Murrieta, Cynthia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geografia humana > Mexico;bolívia.
Social conditions.
Landscape ecology.
Landscape changes.
Land use.
Ecology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Environnement > Bolivie > Chiquitos (Province)
Environnement > Mexique > Sonora (État)
Écologie du paysage > Bolivie > Chiquitos (Province)
Écologie du paysage > Mexique > Sonora (État)
Utilisation du sol > Bolivie > Chiquitos (Province)
Utilisation du sol > Mexique > Sonora (État)
Paysages > Modifications > Bolivie > Chiquitos (Province)
Paysages > Modifications > Mexique > Sonora (État)
Landscape ecology > Bolivia > Chiquitos (Province)
Landscape ecology > Mexico > Sonora (State)
Land use > Bolivia > Chiquitos (Province)
Land use > Mexico > Sonora (State)
Landscape changes > Bolivia > Chiquitos (Province)
Landscape changes > Mexico > Sonora (State)
Mexico > Sonora (State)
Bolivia > Chiquitos (Province)
Chiquitos (Bolivie : Province) > Conditions environnementales.
Sonora (Mexique : État) > Conditions environnementales.
Chiquitos (Bolivie : Province) > Histoire.
Sonora (Mexique : État) > Conditions sociales.
Chiquitos (Bolivia : Province) > Environmental conditions.
Chiquitos (Bolivia : Province) > History.
Sonora (Mexico : State) > Environmental conditions.
Sonora (Mexico : State) > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ecological and cultural frontiers in Sonora and Chiquitos
  • Political economy : communities and conflicting claims to property
  • Ethnic mosaics and gendered identities
  • Power negotiated, power defied : political culture, governance, and mobilization
  • Priests and Shamans : spiritual power, ritual and knowledge
  • Postcolonial landscapes : transitions from colony to republic
  • Contested landscapes in continental borderlands.

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