Measuring the Extent and Limits of Colonial Change in Mesoamerica

This essay reviews the following works: Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City. By Vera S. Candiani. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxix + 376. $60.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780804788052. Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo...

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Main Author: Peter B. Villella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2017-09-01
Series:Latin American Research Review
Online Access:https://larrlasa.org/articles/123
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Summary:This essay reviews the following works: Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City. By Vera S. Candiani. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xxix + 376. $60.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780804788052. Return to Aztlan: Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México. By Danna A. Levin Rojo. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 307. $34.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780806144344. Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500–1821. By W. George Lovell. 4th ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 306. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 9780773545274. The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City. By Barbara E. Mundy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 246. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780292766563. Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan. By Amara Solari. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 212. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780292744943.
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