Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining, ranching, and farming, affect the environment.

Part 1 Introduction: Economies and The Transformation Of Landscapes Part 2 SECTION ONE: ENGINEERED LANDSCAPES IN HISTORICAL FRAME Chapter 3 The Engineered Landscapes of Irrigation Chapter 4 Reading History in an Irrigated Landscape: The Drama of the Commons in the Andes Chapter 5 Household Labor and Landscape Transformation in Ancient Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico Chapter 6 How Mining, Ranching, and the State Changed the Landscape of Southwestern New Mexico, 1850-2005 Part 7 SECTION TWO: TRANSFORMATIONS, POLITICAL STRATEGIES AND DECISION MAKING Chapter 8 From Foraging to Farming: The Emergence of Exclusive Property Rights in Kentucky Prehistory Chapter 9 When Nomads Settle: Livelihood Change and Resource Stress with Pastoral Sedentarization in Northern Kenya Chapter 10 Place Acts and Property Regimes in the Ecuadorian Amazon Chapter 11 Coffee, Abolition and Immigration: Driving Forces in 19th Century Brazilian Landscape Transformation Part 12 SECTION 3: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND INSTITUTIONAL INTERACTIONS Chapter 13 Unsettled Landscapes: Settlement patterns and the development of social inequality in Northern Iceland Chapter 14 The Decentralized Landscape: Regional Wealth and the Expansion of Production in Northern Tanzania Before the Eve of Colonialism Chapter 15 Maya Handicraft Vendors, Crime, And The Social Re/Construction of Market Spaces In A Tourism Town Chapter 16 The Commercial Transformation of a Philippine Cityscape: A Case from San Fernando City, La Union

Lisa Cliggett andChristopher Pool are in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky.