María E. Montoya

María E. Montoya

2 books

About the Author

María E. Montoya is a historian whose scholarship examines labor, property, democracy, and power in the American West. Her work brings together social, economic, and legal history to illuminate the conflicts shaping workplaces, communities, and systems of ownership. She is the author of A Workplace of Their Own: Rockefeller, Roche, and Labor's Battle Over Industrial Democracy and Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900. Through careful research and compelling analysis, Montoya invites readers to reconsider how institutions and contested ideas have influenced American society.

Writing style
analytical historical engaging

Books by María E. Montoya