Decolonizing Development – Colonial Power and the Maya

Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power. Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research dataAmply supplemented with maps and illustrationsAn intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya