Books by Cynthia Radding

This comparative frontier history explores the role that natural environments played in shaping the contours of European-indigenous encounters and processes of colonization

Focusing on the native subjects of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico, this book explores the social process of peasant class formation and the cultural persistence of Indian communities, during the transitional period between Spanish colonialism and Mexican national rule. It is useful for those in the fields of Latin American and postcolonial studies.