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008    070502s2007    nyuab    b    001 0 eng   
010      2007018169 
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016 7  013805576|2Uk 
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020    9780521848534|q(hardback) 
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035    (OCoLC)124074823 
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050 00 GF514|b.M55 2007 
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100 1  Miller, Shawn William,|d1964- 
245 13 An environmental history of Latin America /|cShawn William
       Miller. 
264  1 New York :|bCambridge University Press,|c2007. 
300    xi, 257 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c23 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  New approaches to the Americas 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
650  0 Human ecology|zLatin America|xHistory. 
650  0 Nature|xEffect of human beings on|zLatin America|xHistory.
650  0 Rain forest ecology|zLatin America|xHistory. 
650  0 Rain forest conservation|zLatin America|xHistory. 
650  0 Forest management|zLatin America|xHistory. 
650  0 Environmental degradation|zLatin America|xHistory. 
650  7 Ecology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00901476 
650  7 Environmental degradation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00912877 
650  7 Forest management.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00932231 
650  7 Human ecology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00962941 
650  7 Nature|xEffect of human beings on.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01034564 
650  7 Rain forest conservation.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01089437 
650  7 Rain forest ecology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01089445 
650  7 Umweltschutz.|0(DE-588)4061644-7|2gnd 
650  7 Umweltpolitik.|0(DE-588)4078523-3|2gnd 
650 07 Umweltschutz.|2swd 
651  0 Latin America|xEnvironmental conditions|xHistory. 
650 17 Natuurbehoud.|2gtt 
650 17 Milieu.|2gtt 
650 17 Ecologie.|2gtt 
650 17 Regenwouden.|2gtt 
651  7 Latin America.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01245945 
651  7 Latijns-Amerika.|2gtt 
651  7 Lateinamerika.|0(DE-588)4074032-8|2gnd 
651  7 Lateinamerika.|2swd 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
830  0 New approaches to the Americas. 
856 42 |3Contributor biographical information|uhttp://
       catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007018169-
       b.html 
856 42 |3Publisher description|uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/
       enhancements/fy0729/2007018169-d.html 
994    C0|bSTJ