TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyer,Chris
AU  - Cariño Olvera,Martha Micheline
AU  - Cuvi,Nicolás
AU  - Funes Monzote,Reinaldo
AU  - Horta Duarte,Regina
AU  - Leal,Claudia
AU  - McCook,Stuart
AU  - McNeill,J.R.
AU  - Pádua,José Augusto
AU  - Santiago,Myrna I.
AU  - Sedrez,Lise
AU  - Soluri,John
AU  - Van Ausdal,Shawn
AU  - Wakild,Emily
AU  - Wilcox,Robert W.
TI  - A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America 
T2  - Environment in History: International Perspectives
SN  - 9781785333903
AV  - GF514 
U1  - 304.2098 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - HISTORY / Latin America / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - agriculture
KW  - conservation
KW  - contemporary environmental challenges
KW  - critical countries and ecosystems
KW  - definitive volume
KW  - latin america and spanish caribbean
KW  - latin american environmental history
KW  - mining
KW  - new perspectives on environmental change
KW  - ranching
KW  - science
KW  - urbanization
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785333910?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785333910
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785333910/original
ER  -