An Environmental History of Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas) - Softcover

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Miller, Shawn William

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9780521612982: An Environmental History of Latin America (New Approaches to the Americas)
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ISBN 10: 0521612985 ISBN 13: 9780521612982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521612985
ISBN 13 
9780521612982
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272
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