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A living past : environmental histories of modern Latin America /

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 perspective...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Leal, Claudia, 1970- (Editor ), Soluri, John (Editor ), Pádua, José Augusto (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2018.
Colección:Environment in history ; volume 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.