| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) |
| Series |
The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 13
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Environment in history ; volume 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Latin America -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Latin America -- History.
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Latin America -- Environmental conditions.
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NATURE -- Ecology. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. |
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Ecology |
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Human ecology |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on |
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Latin America |
| Indexed Term |
agriculture. |
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conservation. |
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contemporary environmental challenges. |
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critical countries and ecosystems. |
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definitive volume. |
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latin america and spanish caribbean. |
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latin american environmental history. |
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mining. |
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new perspectives on environmental change. |
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ranching. |
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science. |
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urbanization. |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Leal, Claudia, 1970- editor.
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Soluri, John, editor.
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Pádua, José Augusto, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Living past. New York : Berghahn, 2018 (DLC) 2017051497 |
| ISBN |
9781785333910 (electronic bk.) |
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1785333917 (electronic bk.) |
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9781785333903 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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1785333909 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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