A Living Past

Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America

John Soluri, Claudia Leal, José Augusto Pádua (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

310 Seiten

2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-513-8 (ISBN)

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Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.

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.

John Soluri is Director of Global Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches courses on food, energy, environment, and commodities in Latin America. He is the author of Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Environmental Change, and Consumption in Honduras and the United States (2006).

List of Illustrations, Tables, and Figures

List of Maps

Preface

Introduction: Finding the “Latin American” in Latin American Environmental History

John Soluri, Claudia Leal, José Augusto Pádua

Chapter 1. Mexico’s Ecological Revolutions

Chris Boyer and Martha Micheline Cariño Olvera

Chapter 2. The Greater Caribbean and the Transformation of Tropicality

Reinaldo Funes Monzote

Chapter 3. Indigenous Imprints and Remnants in the Tropical Andes

Nicolás Cuvi

Chapter 4. The Dilemma of the “Splendid Cradle”: Nature and Territory in the Construction of Brazil

José Augusto Pádua

Chapter 5. From Threatening to Threatened Jungles

Claudia Leal

Chapter 6. The Ivy and the Wall: Environmental Narratives from an Urban Continent

Lise Sedrez and Regina Horta Duarte

Chapter 7. Home Cooking: Campesinos, Cuisine, and Agrodiversity

John Soluri

Chpater 8. Hoofprints: Cattle Ranching and Landscape Transformation

Shawn Van Ausdal and Robert W. Wilcox

Chapter 9. Extraction Stories: Workers, Nature, and Communities in the Mining and Oil Industries

Myrna I. Santiago

Chapter 10. Prodigality and Sustainability: The Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development

Stuart McCook

Chapter 11. A Panorama of Parks: Deep Nature, Depopulation, and the Cadence of Conserving Nature

Emily Wakild

Epilogue: Latin American Environmental History in Global Perspective

J.R. McNeill

Selected Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.05.2019
Reihe/Serie	Environment in History: International Perspectives
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-78920-513-1 / 1789205131
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-513-8 / 9781789205138
Zustand	Neuware