Historical geography of Latin America
Subtitle: papers in honor of Robert C. West
By: editors, William V. Davidson and James J. Parsons.
Contributors: West, Robert Cooper, 1913-; Davidson, William V.; Parsons, James Jerome, 1915-
Series: Geoscience and man ;; v. 21
Publisher: School of Geoscience, Louisiana State University
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: West, Robert Cooper, 1913-; Human geography -- Latin America.; Indians.; Latin America -- Historical geography.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Davidson, W. V. and Parsons, J. J. Robert C. West, geographer.; title: Turner, B. L. Geography and prehistory in southern Mesoamerica.; title: Patrick, L. L. A proposed location of the southern provincial boundary of fifteenth-century Tlaxcala, Mexico.; title: Licate, J. A. The forms of Aztec territorial organization.; title: Smole, W. J. Musa cultivation in pre-Columbian South America.; title: Williams, B. J. Pictorial representation of soils in the valley of Mexico.; title: Barrett, E. M. Indian community hospitals in colonial Michoacán.; title: Edwards, C. R. Geographical coverage of the sixteenth-century Relaciones de Indias from South America.; title: Robinson, D. J. Population patterns in a northern Mexican mining region.; title: Swann, M. M. The demographic impact of disease and famine in late colonial northern Mexico.; title: Winberry, J. J. Development of the Mexican railroad system.; title: Rees, P. W. Railroads and the development of the urban hierarchy in nineteenth-century eastern Mexico.; title: Harvey, H. R. Religious networks of central Mexico.; title: Wiseman, F. M. The edge of the tropics.; title: Denevan, W. M. Field work as exploration.