A Living Past : Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America /
A Living Past : Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America /
ed. by Claudia Leal, John Soluri, José Augusto Pádua.
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 13 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Tables, and Figures -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Introduction. Finding the “Latin American” in Latin American Environmental History -- Chapter 1. Mexico’s Ecological Revolutions -- Chapter 2. The Greater Caribbean and the Transformation of Tropicality -- Chapter 3. Indigenous Imprints and Remnants in the Tropical Andes -- Chapter 4. The Dilemma of the “Splendid Cradle”: Nature and Territory in the Construction of Brazil -- Chapter 5. From Threatening to Threatened Jungles -- Chapter 6. The Ivy and the Wall: Environmental Narratives from an Urban Continent -- Chapter 7. Home Cooking: Campesinos, Cuisine, and Agrodiversity -- Chapter 8. Hoofprints: Cattle Ranching and Landscape Transformation -- Chapter 9. Extraction Stories: Workers, Nature, and Communities in the Mining and Oil Industries -- Chapter 10. Prodigality and Sustainability: Th e Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development -- Chapter 11. A Panorama of Parks: Deep Nature, Depopulation, and the Cadence of Conserving Nature -- Epilogue. Latin American Environmental History in Global Perspective -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781785333903 9781785333910
10.1515/9781785333910 doi
2017059196
Human ecology--History.--Latin America
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--Latin America
HISTORY / Latin America / General.
agriculture. conservation. contemporary environmental challenges. critical countries and ecosystems. definitive volume. latin america and spanish caribbean. latin american environmental history. mining. new perspectives on environmental change. ranching. science. urbanization.
GF514
304.2098
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Tables, and Figures -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Introduction. Finding the “Latin American” in Latin American Environmental History -- Chapter 1. Mexico’s Ecological Revolutions -- Chapter 2. The Greater Caribbean and the Transformation of Tropicality -- Chapter 3. Indigenous Imprints and Remnants in the Tropical Andes -- Chapter 4. The Dilemma of the “Splendid Cradle”: Nature and Territory in the Construction of Brazil -- Chapter 5. From Threatening to Threatened Jungles -- Chapter 6. The Ivy and the Wall: Environmental Narratives from an Urban Continent -- Chapter 7. Home Cooking: Campesinos, Cuisine, and Agrodiversity -- Chapter 8. Hoofprints: Cattle Ranching and Landscape Transformation -- Chapter 9. Extraction Stories: Workers, Nature, and Communities in the Mining and Oil Industries -- Chapter 10. Prodigality and Sustainability: Th e Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development -- Chapter 11. A Panorama of Parks: Deep Nature, Depopulation, and the Cadence of Conserving Nature -- Epilogue. Latin American Environmental History in Global Perspective -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781785333903 9781785333910
10.1515/9781785333910 doi
2017059196
Human ecology--History.--Latin America
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--Latin America
HISTORY / Latin America / General.
agriculture. conservation. contemporary environmental challenges. critical countries and ecosystems. definitive volume. latin america and spanish caribbean. latin american environmental history. mining. new perspectives on environmental change. ranching. science. urbanization.
GF514
304.2098