ISBN:
9780511800672
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 257 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
New approaches to the Americas
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DDC:
304.2098
Keywords:
Geschichte 1600-2007
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Geschichte
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Human ecology / Latin America / History
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Nature / Effect of human beings on / Latin America / History
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Rain forest ecology / Latin America / History
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Rain forest conservation / Latin America / History
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Forest management / Latin America / History
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Environmental degradation / Latin America / History
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Umweltveränderung
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Lateinamerika
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Latin America / Environmental conditions / History
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Lateinamerika
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Lateinamerika
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Umweltveränderung
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Geschichte 1600-2007
Abstract:
A narration of 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, bananas, dirt, butterflies, guano, and fungi make more than cameo appearances. Recent scholarship has overturned many of our egocentric assumptions about humanity's role in history. 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
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511800672
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