Nationalizing Nature - Iguazu Falls and National Parks At the Brazil-Argentina Border

Sommario

Introduction: Boundaries of nature; 1. Nationalizing the border; 2. Playing catch-up; 3. A park and a town; 4. Land conflict; 5. Surveillance and evasion; 6. The view from above; The resilience of boundaries.

Info autore

Frederico Freitas is an Assistant Professor of Digital and Latin American History and a core member of the Visual Narrative Initiative at North Carolina State University. He is the co-editor of Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (with Jacob Blanc, 2018) and a recipient of an NEH fellowship.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Frederico Freitas, Frederico (North Carolina State Universit Freitas, Frederico (North Carolina State University) Freitas
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108844833
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84483-3
• Pagine: 315
• Serie: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, History of the Americas, Environmentalist thought and ideology