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Author | : Shawn William Miller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2007-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316224325 |
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A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to more contemporary forms of conspicuous consumption, figure prominently in the story. However, characters such as hookworms, whales, hurricanes, bananas, dirt, butterflies, guano, and fungi make more than cameo appearances. Recent scholarship has overturned many of our egocentric assumptions about humanity's role in history. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.
Author | : John Soluri |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785333917 |
Download A Living Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : David V. Carruthers |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Environmental justice |
ISBN | : 0262033720 |
Download Environmental Justice in Latin America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Scholars and activists investigate the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that illustrate the connections between popular environmental mobilization and social justice in the region.
Author | : Andra B. Chastain |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822987325 |
Download Itineraries of Expertise Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post–World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War.
Author | : Lisa Blackmore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0429533888 |
Download Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examining the visual arts, including multimedia installations, performance, photography and film, the chapters place diverse fluids and systems of flow in art historical, ecocritical and cultural analytical contexts. The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, cultural studies, environmental humanities, blue humanities, ecocriticism, Latin American and Caribbean studies, and island studies. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com
Author | : Dan Allosso |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781981731732 |
Download American Environmental History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An expanded, new and improved American Environmental History textbook for everyone! After years of teaching Environmental History at a major East Coast University without a textbook, Dr. Dan Allosso decided to take matters into his own hands. The result, American Environmental History, is a concise, comprehensive survey covering the material from Dan's undergraduate course. What do people say about the class and the text? "This was my first semester and this course has created an incredible first impression. If all of the courses are this good, I am going to really enjoy my time here. The course has completely changed the way I look at the world." (Student in 2014 class) "One of the few classes I'm really sad is ending, the subject matter is fascinating and Dan is a great guide to it. His approach should be required of all students as it teaches an appreciation for a newer and better way of living." (Student in 2014 class) "Allosso's lectures are fantastic. The best I have ever had. So impressed. The material is always extremely interesting and well-presented." (Student in 2015 class) "It is just a perfect course that I think should be mandatory if we want to save our planet and live responsibly." (Student in 2015 class) "A rare gem for an IB ESS teacher or any social studies teacher looking for an 11th or 12th grade supplementary text that aims to provide an historical context for the environmental reality in America today. Highly recommended." (District Curriculum Coordinator, 2016) "I was so impressed with this material that I am using it as a supplement for a course I teach at my college." (History and Environmental Studies Professor, 2017) Beginning in prehistory and concluding in the present, American Environmental History explores the ways the environment has affected the choices that became our history, and how our choices have affected the environment. The dynamic relationship between people and the world around them is missing from mainstream history. Putting the environment back into history helps us make sense of the past and the present, which will help guide us toward a better future. More information and Dan's blog are available at environmentalhistory.us
Author | : Aldemaro Romero |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2006-02-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402037740 |
Download Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a collection of readings that explore environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean using natural science and social science methods. These papers demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and solve environmental problems. The essays are organized into five parts: conservation challenges; national policies, local communities, and rural development; market mechanisms for protecting public goods; public participation and environmental justice; and the effects of development policies on the environment.
Author | : Alex Latta |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0857457489 |
Download Environment and Citizenship in Latin America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.
Author | : J. R. McNeill |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2015-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 111897753X |
Download A Companion to Global Environmental History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Author | : Christian Brannstrom |
Publisher | : University of London Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Territories, Commodities and Knowledges Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The contributors to this volume engage with emerging conceptual debates within environmental history, placing Latin American case studies within the field's main themes.