The making of the myth in postcolonial development: Material-conceptual landscape transformation in sixteenth-century veracruz

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-401

  Sluyter, Andrew ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Development theory; Environmental and cultural sustainability; Landscape ecology; Landscape transformation; Mexico; Nature; The Americas; Veracruz wilderness

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POST-COLONIALISM;

MEXICO; VERACRUZ STATE;

EID: 0032750394     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00154     Document Type: Article

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