Shawn William Miller

An Environmental History of Latin America

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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. Human attitudes, populations, and appetites, from Aztec cannibalism to more contemporary forms of conspicuous consumption, figure prominently in the story. However, characters such as hookworms, whales, hurricanes, banan… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-521-84853-4
EAN: 9780521848534
Produktnummer: 2875996
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 575 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 575

Über den 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 & Conservation History, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review.