Wandering Peoples : Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, & Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 (Latin America Otherwise Ser.) by Radding, Cynthia R - 1997

Duke University Press Books, 1997-04-30. Illustrated. paperback. Used: Good.

Duke University Press, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book has minor stain on the top edges back cover that is very difficult to see in the scans. 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 colonialism and Mexican national rule. Throughout this anthropological history, Radding presents multilayered meanings of culture, community, and ecology, and discusses both the colonial policies to which peasant communities were subjected and the responses they developed to adapt and resist them. Radding describes this colonial mission not merely as an instance of Iberian expansion but as a site of… Read More

Duke Univ Press, 1997. pbk 406pp covers very slightly shelf worn excellent clean tight text in as new condition this is an original printing not a print on demand copy and is in stock for immediate dispatch

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Duke Univ Pr, 1997. Paperback. New. 432 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches.

Duke University Press Books, 1997-04-30. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!