Unexpected Comparabilities. A Review of Cynthia Radding's <em> Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic </em> (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005)

Authors

  • Christopher Boyer University of Illinois at Chicago

Keywords:

Latin American History, Colonialism

Abstract

Landscapes in Power and Identity is a deeply original work of
historical scholarship that opens multiple pathways of analysis into
indigenous societies, colonialism, and the environment in Latin
America.

Author Biography

Christopher Boyer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Christopher R. Boyer es profesor asociado de historia y de estudios latinoamericanos y latinos en la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago. Su libro, Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920-1935 (Stanford University Press, 2003) examina el proceso de cambio en las identidades rurales a raíz de la reforma agraria mexicana. Actualmente investiga la competencia entre estado, científicos y comunidades rurales para identificar el uso de los bosques en México entre 1880 y el presente. Un artículo derivado de este proyecto se publicará en Historia Mexicana en el 2007.

Published

2006-09-01

How to Cite

Boyer, C. (2006). Unexpected Comparabilities. A Review of Cynthia Radding’s <em> Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic </em> (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 4(1), 146–151. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/262

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Reviews / Reseñas