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Capturing the Landscape of New Spain: Baltasar Obregon and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition. Southwest Center Series. By Rebecca A. Carte. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xiv + 168 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.) Baltasar Obregon’s Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva Espana (1584) has been published in two Spanish-language editions (1989, 1997) and one in English (1928) translated by George P. Hammond and Agapito Rey. Since the noted geographer of Mexico’s northwest, Carl O. Sauer, complained in 1932 that Obregon’s text was confused and lurid, no one has attempted a critical cultural reading of it until now. Rebecca A. Carte has used her cultural linguistic skills to undertake this task, providing us with a careful, theoretically informed reading of Obregon’s history of the “greater northwest” that reconciles his purposes … Susan.deeds{at}nau.edu

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