| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.1

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Book Review

Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forest of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. By Cynthia Radding. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. xx + 431. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $24.95.

This book is a brilliantly conceived, exhaustively researched, and skillfully crafted comparative study of cultural landscapes in Sonora, Mexico, and Chiquitos, Bolivia, two frontier regions in Spain's American empire. Drawing on multi-archival research, ethnography, artifacts, and published accounts of travelers and missionaries, Cynthia Radding integrates broad historical frameworks and ethnography in a study that spans both the colonial and post-colonial eras. The book is organized chronologically and thematically, with separate chapters devoted to comparative analyses of ecological and cultural frontiers; colonial political economies; community and territorial claims; ethnic and gender identity formation; political power, governance, and contestation; and spiritual landscapes and rituals. The final two chapters examine changes and continuities during the tumultuous period of independence and early nation-state formation.

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