| An Environmental History of Latin America Contributor(s): Miller, Shawn William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511800673 ISBN-13: 9780511800672 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $191.25 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - General - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 304.2 |
| Series: New Approaches to the Americas |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book narrates 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. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Miller, Shawn William: - Shawn W. Miller is the author of Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber (2000), and has published on Latin America's environmental history in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Forest and Conservation History, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review. |