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

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

Scholarship has moved beyond viewing the external environment as composed of nature or culture. This collection of essays explores the complex dynamics of how we humans perceive, use, alter, and interact with the spaces around us.