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050 00 $aGF514$b.M55 2007
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100 1 $aMiller, Shawn William,$d1964-
245 13 $aAn environmental history of Latin America /$cShawn William Miller.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2007.
300 $axi, 257 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aNew approaches to the Americas
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-247) and index.
505 0 $aAn 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 $aThis 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 $aHuman ecology$zLatin America$xHistory.
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650 0 $aRain forest ecology$zLatin America$xHistory.
650 0 $aRain forest conservation$zLatin America$xHistory.
650 0 $aForest management$zLatin America$xHistory.
650 0 $aEnvironmental degradation$zLatin America$xHistory.
651 0 $aLatin America$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory.
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