Environmental History of Latin America

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Zusammenfassung A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period beginning with Amerindian civilizations and concluding with the region's present urban agglomerations! the work argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: props and scenery; 1. An old world before it was 'new'; 2. Nature's conquests; 3. The colonial balance sheet; 4. Tropical determinism; 5. Human determination; 6. Asphyxiated habitats; 7. Developing environmentalism; Epilogue: Cuba's latest revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Shawn Miller, Shawn William Miller, Shawn William (Brigham Young University Miller, Miller Shawn William
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2007
• EAN: 9780521612982
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61298-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: New Approaches to the Americas; New Approaches to the Americas
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Latin America, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Latin America / General, The environment, Social and cultural history, Science / Environmental Science, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas