Landscapes of Power And Identity

"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 "Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810-1910"

Cynthia Radding is Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico.