A living past environmental histories of Latin America

List of Illustrations, Tables, and Figures List of Maps Preface Introduction: Finding the “Latin American” in Latin American Environmental History John Soluri, Claudia Leal, José Augusto Pádua Chapter 1. Mexico’s Ecological Revolutions Chris Boyer and Martha Micheline Cariño Olvera Chapter 2. The Greater Caribbean and the Transformation of Tropicality Reinaldo Funes Monzote Chapter 3. Indigenous Imprints and Remnants in the Tropical Andes Nicolás Cuvi Chapter 4. The Dilemma of the “Splendid Cradle”: Nature and Territory in the Construction of Brazil José Augusto Pádua Chapter 5. From Threatening to Threatened Jungles Claudia Leal Chapter 6. The Ivy and the Wall: Environmental Narratives from an Urban Continent Lise Sedrez and Regina Horta Duarte Chapter 7. Home Cooking: Campesinos, Cuisine, and Agrodiversity John Soluri Chpater 8. Hoofprints: Cattle Ranching and Landscape Transformation Shawn Van Ausdal and Robert W. Wilcox Chapter 9. Extraction Stories: Workers, Nature, and Communities in the Mining and Oil Industries Myrna I. Santiago Chapter 10. Prodigality and Sustainability: The Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development Stuart McCook Chapter 11. A Panorama of Parks: Deep Nature, Depopulation, and the Cadence of Conserving Nature Emily Wakild Epilogue: Latin American Environmental History in Global Perspective J.R. McNeill Selected Bibliography Index