Environmental History of Latin America

Name: Environmental History of Latin America
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ISBN: 9780521848534

ISBN-10: 0521848539

ISBN-13: 9780521848534

Edition: 2007

Authors: Shawn William Miller

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Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the regions urban agglomerations, this text offers an original synthesis of the scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development.

Book details

List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Props and Scenery



An Old World Before It Was "New"


Shaping Fertile Landscapes


Attitudes toward Nature and Consumption


People Eating People


The Question of Sustainability



Nature's Conquests


Pestilence


Biodiversity's Gains


An Enriched Platter


Responding to Alien Natures



The Colonial Balance Sheet


Consuming Sugar


Deadly Silver


Handcuffed Colonists



Tropical Determinism


Racist Dogmas


Tropical Diseases


Natural Disasters


Plant Maladies



Human Determination


Mountains Moved


Guano Happened


Rivers Reversed



Asphyxiated Habitats


Urban Traditions


Automotive Carnage


Curitiba's Present


Demographic Futures



Developing Environmentalism


Conservationism and Wilderness


The Limits of Popular Environmentalism


Invasions of Paradise


Epilogue: Cuba's Latest Revolution


Suggested Further Readings


Index