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  • Bountiful Deserts

    Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain

    by Cynthia Radding ...
    Series series Latin American Landscapes
    Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the rigors of climate change in arid lands and the perils of the desert in the northern Mexican borderlands for migrants seeking shelter and a new life.Bountiful Deserts foregrounds the knowledge of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Landscapes of Power and Identity

    Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic

    by Cynthia Radding, PhD ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Wandering Peoples

    Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700–1850

    by Cynthia Radding, PhD ...
    Series series Latin America otherwise
    Wandering Peoples is a chronicle of cultural resiliency, colonial relations, and trespassed frontiers in the borderlands of a changing Spanish empire. Focusing on the native subjects of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico, Cynthia Radding explores the social process of peasant class formation and the cultural persistence of Indian communities during the long transitional period between Spanish ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Re-Imagining Nature

    Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics

    by Timo Maran, Dermot Moran, Katherine M. Faull, Kathryn W. Shanley, Cynthia Radding, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Sarah Reese, Michael Oleksa, John Carey, Cary Wolfe ...
    Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study of the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World

    Edited by Danna A. Levin Rojo, Cynthia Radding ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This collaborative multi-authored volume integrates interdisciplinary approaches to ethnic, imperial, and national borderlands in the Iberian World (16th to early 19th centuries). It illustrates the historical processes that produced borderlands in the Americas and connected them to global circuits of exchange and migration in the early modern world. The book offers a balanced state-of-the-art ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • Living with Nature, Cherishing Language

    Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History

    Edited by Justyna Olko, Cynthia Radding ...
    This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and ... Read more

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    Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010

    by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano ...
    Translated by Russ Davidson ...
    Series series Mesoamerican Worlds
    A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous Communities is an expansive work that destroys the notion that Indians were victims of forces beyond their control and today have little connection with their ancient past. Indian communities continue to remember and tell their own local histories, ... Read more

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  • A Land So Strange

    The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    A gripping tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century, from a Bancroft Prize-winning historian.**“Once you start this book, it's nearly impossible to put it down.” -**Washington PostIn 1527, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong: Delayed by a hurricane and knocked off course by a colossal error of navigation, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs

    Edited by Deborah L. Nichols, Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and ... Read more

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  • A City on a Lake

    Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City

    by Matthew Vitz ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization and environmental decline stemmed from numerous scientific and social disputes over water policy ... Read more

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  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Read more

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  • The Inca

    Lost Civilizations

    by Kevin Lane ...
    Series Book 13 - Lost Civilizations
    In their heyday the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle of South American civilization. Known as the ‘Romans of the Americas’, these fabulous engineers converted the vertiginous, challenging landscapes of the Andes into a fertile region able to feed millions, alongside building royal estates such as Machu Picchu and a 40,000-kilometre road network ... Read more

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