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An Environmental History of Latin America (Hardcover)
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An Environmental History of Latin America (Hardcover)
Series: New Approaches to the Americas
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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.
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