Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations, Tables, and Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction: Finding the "Latin American" in Latin American Environmental History
John Soluri, Claudia Leal, José Augusto Pádua
Chapter 1. Mexico's Ecological Revolutions
Chris Boyer and Martha Micheline Cariño Olvera
Chapter 2. The Greater Caribbean and the Transformation of Tropicality
Reinaldo Funes Monzote
Chapter 3. Indigenous Imprints and Remnants in the Tropical Andes
Nicolás Cuvi
Chapter 4. The Dilemma of the "Splendid Cradle": Nature and Territory in the Construction of Brazil
José Augusto Pádua
Chapter 5. From Threatening to Threatened Jungles
Claudia Leal
Chapter 6. The Ivy and the Wall: Environmental Narratives from an Urban Continent
Lise Sedrez and Regina Horta Duarte
Chapter 7. Home Cooking: Campesinos, Cuisine, and Agrodiversity
John Soluri
Chpater 8. Hoofprints: Cattle Ranching and Landscape Transformation
Shawn Van Ausdal and Robert W. Wilcox
Chapter 9. Extraction Stories: Workers, Nature, and Communities in the Mining and Oil Industries
Myrna I. Santiago
Chapter 10. Prodigality and Sustainability: The Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development
Stuart McCook
Chapter 11. A Panorama of Parks: Deep Nature, Depopulation, and the Cadence of Conserving Nature
Emily Wakild
Epilogue: Latin American Environmental History in Global Perspective
J.R. McNeill
Selected Bibliography
Index
