Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications

by Andrew Sluyter

Book Overview

Spurred by the dramatic landscape transformation associated with European colonization of the Americas, this original and extensively illustrated work creates a prototype theory to explain relationships between colonialism and landscape. Andrew Sluyter adeptly weaves historical sources and empirical research into a comprehensive geographical theory and applies it to a case study of the Veracruz lowlands along the Gulf Coast of Mexico. He then explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742515605
• ISBN13: 9780742515604
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"