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Sonora: Its Geographical Personality

Sonora: Its Geographical Personality

West, Robert C.

Paperback

GeographyMexican History

ISBN10: 0292722583
ISBN13: 9780292722583
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jul 15 2009
Pages: 207
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A land where some streams ran with gold. A landscape nearly empty of inhabitants in the wake of Apache raids from the north. And a former desert transformed by irrigation into vast fields of wheat and cotton. This was and is the state of Sonora in northwest Mexico.

In this cultural historical geography, Robert C. West explores the dual geographic personality of this part of Mexico's northern frontier. Utilizing the idea of old and new landscapes, he describes two Sonoras--to the east, a semiarid to subhumid mountainous region that reached its peak of development in the colonial era and still lives largely in its colonial past; and, to the west, a desert region that in the twentieth century has become a major agricultural producer and the modern center of economic and cultural activity.

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