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A Living Past : Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America / ed. by Claudia Leal, John Soluri, José Augusto Pádua.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 13Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785333903
  • 9781785333910
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2098 23
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  • GF514
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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