A living past : environmental histories of modern Latin America /: environmental histories of modern Latin America. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Claudia Leal, John Soluri, and José Augusto Pádua.
• Editors: Leal, Claudia, 1970-; Soluri, John; Pádua, José Augusto
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 304.2098; Human ecology -- Latin America -- History; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Latin America -- History; NATURE / Ecology; Latin America -- Environmental conditions; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785333910; 1785333917
• Related ISBNs: 9781785333903
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 19, 2018)
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