Richard M. Conway (New Jersey Montclair State University)

Islands in the Lake

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An essential text for those interested in the history of Native Americans and Mexico. It offers a novel approach to understanding cross-cultural encounters and colonialism in the early modern period, combining environmental history with Spanish and native-language sources to explain socioeconomic and cultural continuities.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781009001861
• ISBN-10: 1009001868
• Artikelnr.: 75454197

Autorenporträt

Richard M. Conway is Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University. A historian of colonial Latin America, his research focuses on the social and environmental history of Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Ecological and Political Landscapes
2. Land
3. Canoes and Commerce
4. Demography and Society
5. Crisis in the Seventeenth Century
6. Late-Colonial Watersheds
7. Nahuatl Sources from Xochimilco
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.