Overview
"This is an impressive book. It should be evaluated within two genres. The first is other histories of frontier interaction in the U.S. Southwest. In this context it is very clear that Hall's book will replace earlier works as the standard. The second genre is now a large corpus of studies that closely examine the processes of incorporation and peripheralization into the expanding Europe-centered world-system as they occur within a particular region. . . . In this context Hall's is certainly one of the very best."—Christopher Chase Dunn in Contemporary Sociology"This sweeping survey of social change in the Southwest deserves to reach a wide audience. It is a rigorous and provocative interdisciplinary inquiry. . . . A bold and important book."—Peter Iverson, author of Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians and The Navajo Nation
"Anthropologists have a lot to learn from this historically-oriented sociology. Hall introduces a serious anthropological perspective into the study of the Southwest, and avoids the common error of beginning his analysis of the region in the midstream of modernity."—Eric R. Wolf, author of Europe and the People without History
Author Biography: Thomas D. Hall is Lester M. Jones Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at DePauw University.