A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin AmericaJohn Soluri, Claudia Leal, José Augusto Pádua Berghahn Books, 19 feb 2018 - 310 páginas 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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Chapter 2 The Greater Caribbean and the Transformation of Tropicality | 45 |
Chapter 3 Indigenous Imprints and Remnants in the Tropical Andes | 67 |
Nature and Territory in the Construction of Brazil | 91 |
Chapter 5 From Threatening to Threatened Jungles | 115 |
Environmental Narratives from an Urban Continent | 138 |
Campesinos Cuisine and Agrodiversity | 163 |
Cattle Ranching and Landscape Transformation | 183 |
Workers Nature and Communities in the Mining and Oil Industries | 205 |
The Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development | 226 |
Deep Nature Depopulation and the Cadence of Conserving Nature | 246 |
Epilogue Latin American Environmental History in Global Perspective | 266 |
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