A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

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John Soluri, Claudia Leal, José Augusto Pádua
Berghahn Books, 19 feb 2018 - 297 páginas
Finding the "Latin American" in Latin American environmental history / John Soluri, Claudia Leal, Jose Augusto Padua -- Mexico's ecological revolutions / Chris Boyer, Martha Micheline Cariño Olvera -- The greater Caribbean and the transformation of tropicality / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- Indigenous imprints and remnants in the tropical Andes / Nicolás Cuvi -- The dilemma of the "splendid cradle" : nature and territory in the construction of Brazil / José Augusto Pádua -- From threatening to threatened jungles / Claudia Leal -- The wall and the ivy : environmental narratives from an urban continent / Lise Sedrez, Regina Horta Duarte -- Home cooking : campesinos, cuisine, and agrodiversity / John Soluri -- Hoofprints : cattle ranching and landscape transformation / Shawn Van Ausdal, Robert W. Wilcox -- Extraction stories : workers, nature, and communities in the mining and oil industries / Myrna I. Santiago -- Prodigality and sustainability : the environmental sciences and the quest for development / Stuart McCook -- A panorama of parks : deep nature, depopulation, and the cadence of conserving nature / Emily Wakild -- Latin American environmental history in global perspective / J.R. McNeill

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John Soluri is Director of Global Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches courses on food, energy, environment, and commodities in Latin America. He is the author of Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Environmental Change, and Consumption in Honduras and the United States (2006). Claudia Leal is Associate Professor at the Department of History at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She has studied rainforest regions and the formation of societies after emancipation from slavery. She is currently researching the history of Colombian nature conservation. José Augusto Pádua is Professor of Environmental History at the Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he is also coordinator of the Laboratory of History and Nature. From 2010 to 2015, he was President of the Brazilian Association of Research and Graduate Studies on Environment and Society.

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