Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest

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Series: OXFORD GEOGRAPHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SERIES

Thomas Whitmore and Billie Lee Turner

311 pages, b/w photos, tabs, maps.

Oxford University Press

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Hardcover [print-on-demand] | 2001 | #122606 | ISBN: 0199244537

NHBS Price: £160.00 | $251/€199 approx.

List of Figures; List of Maps; 1. On the Eve of Conquest: The Context and Background to the Problem; 2. The Context of Cultivation: Social and Economic Organization and the General Nature of Cropping; 3. Arboriculture and Horticulture; 4. Rainfed Cultivation; 5. Terrace Cultivation; 6. Floodwater and Irrigated Cultivation; 7. Wetland Cultivation; 8. Inventing Histories? Themes and Implications; Bibliography; Index

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