Economies and the Transformation of Landscape Book

List of Figures and Tables     ix
Introduction: Economies and the Transformation of Landscapes   Christopher A. Pool   Lisa Cliggett     1
Engineered Landscapes in Historical Frames     17
The Engineered Landscapes of Irrigation   Timothy Earle   David E. Doyel     19
Reading History in an Irrigated Landscape: The Drama of the Commons in the Andes   Paul Trawick     47
Household Labor and Landscape Transformation in Ancient Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico   Veronica Perez Rodriguez     77
Mining and Ranching on the Landscape of Southwestern New Mexico, 1850-2005   Carol Maclennan   Christa Walck     103
Transformations, Political Strategies, and Decision Making     125
From Foraging to Farming: The Emergence of Exclusive Property Rights in Kentucky Prehistory   George M. Crothers     127
Pastures Lost: The Decline of Mobile Pastoralism among Maasai and Rendille in Kenya, East Africa   Elliot Fratkin     149
Landscape Acts and Property Regimes in the Ecuadorean Amazon   Juliet S. Erazo     169
Coffee, Abolition, and Immigration: Driving Forces in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Landscape Transformation   Paul A. Rivera     193
Political Economy and Institutional Interactions     215
Unsettled Landscapes: Settlement Patterns and the Development of Social Inequality in Northern Iceland   Douglas J. Bolender   John M. Steinberg   E. Paul Durrenberger     217
The Decentralized Landscape: Regional Wealth and the Expansion of Production in Northern Tanzania before the Eve of Colonialism   N. Thomas Hakansson     239
Maya Handicraft Vendors, Crime, and the Social Re/construction of Market Spaces in a Tourism Town   Walter E. Little     267
The Commercial Transformation of a Philippine Cityscape: A Case from San Fernando City, La Union   Ty Matejowsky     291
Index     311
About the Editors     321
About the Contributors     323