Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest

Name: Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest
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ISBN: 9780199244539

ISBN-10: 0199244537

ISBN-13: 9780199244539

Edition: 2001

Authors: Thomas M. Whitmore, B. L. Turner

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The human-environment conditions in the Americas on the eve of the sixteenth-century European conquest have of late attracted growing interest in both academic and public circles. Focusing on Middle America, this book completes a trilogy which has made the most comprehensive survey ever achieved of pre-Colombian agriculture and culture throughout the continents. It addresses the question of what lands were permanently occupied; how they were used; and what the environmental and social implications of this use were. The answers to these questions are central to such wide-ranging themes as indigenous land rights, the conservation and preservation 'ethic' of these native people, and the global…

Book details

List price: $250.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/25/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 330
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Maps



On the Eve of Conquest: The Context and Background to the Problem



The Context of Cultivation: Social and Economic Organization and the General Nature of Cropping



Arboriculture and Horticulture



Rainfed Cultivation



Terrace Cultivation



Floodwater and Irrigated Cultivation



Wetland Cultivation



Inventing Histories? Themes and Implications


Bibliography


Index