Title An environmental history of Latin America / Shawn William Miller.

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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	980 M651E	Check Shelf

Description	xi, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series	New approaches to the Americas
	New approaches to the Americas.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.
Contents	An old world before it was "new" -- Nature's conquests -- The colonial balance sheet -- Tropical determinism -- Human determination -- Asphyxiated habitats -- Developing environmentalism -- Cuba's latest revolution.
Summary	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. -- From publisher description.
Subject	Human ecology -- Latin America -- History.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Latin America -- History.
	Rain forest ecology -- Latin America -- History.
	Rain forest conservation -- Latin America -- History.
	Forest management -- Latin America -- History.
	Environmental degradation -- Latin America -- History.
	Latin America -- Environmental conditions -- History.
	Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
	Environmental degradation. (OCoLC)fst00912877
	Forest management. (OCoLC)fst00932231
	Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
	Rain forest conservation. (OCoLC)fst01089437
	Rain forest ecology. (OCoLC)fst01089445
	Latin America. (OCoLC)fst01245945
	Natuurbehoud.
	Milieu.
	Ecologie.
	Regenwouden.
	Latijns-Amerika.
	Umweltschutz. (DE-588)4061644-7
	Umweltpolitik. (DE-588)4078523-3
	Lateinamerika. (DE-588)4074032-8
	Umweltschutz.
	Lateinamerika.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780521612982 (pbk.)
	0521612985 (pbk.)
	9780521848534 (hardback)
	0521848539 (hardback)

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