| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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Book Review

Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic. By Cynthia Radding. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xxiv + 431 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $89.96, cloth; $24.95, paper.)

In recent years, western American historians have increasingly recognized that the region's history extends beyond the borders of the United States to Mexico, Canada, and the Pacific. With Landscapes of Power and Identity, Cynthia Radding reminds us that the Spanish borderlands that would become the U. S. Southwest and Mexican North were also part of an extensive empire that stretched back to Spain and to other colonized lands and people in South America. Focusing on the northern Mexican deserts of Sonora and the eastern Bolivian lowlands of Chiquitos, Radding juxtaposes borderlands from opposite ends of the Spanish empire to explore the shared experience of colonialism and underscore the central role of local landscapes and communities in channeling and challenging imperial agendas. Carefully researched and clearly written, Landscapes of Power and Identity provides an illuminating comparison of the environmental history of Spanish colonialism.

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