Latin American Landscapes – serie
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9 produkter
Bountiful Deserts
Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain
Häftad, 2022
409 kr
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Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the rigors of climate change in arid lands and the perils of the desert in the northern Mexican …
Land Between Waters
Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico
Häftad, 2014
342 kr
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Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent's largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people's use of the land, extraction of its resources, and …
Landscapes of Freedom
Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia
Av Claudia Leal
Häftad, 2020
409 kr
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After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast of Colombia attained levels of autonomy hardly equaled anywhere else in the Americas. This autonomy rested on their access to a diverse environment-including small strips of fertile soils, …
Bountiful Deserts
Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain
Inbunden, 2022
1185 kr
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Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the rigors of climate change in arid lands and the perils of the desert in the northern Mexican …
Colonial Cataclysms
Climate, Landscape, and Memory in Mexico's Little Ice Age
Häftad, 2024
395 kr
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The contiguous river basins that flowed in Tlaxcala and San Juan Teotihuacan formed part of the agricultural heart of central Mexico. As the colonial project rose to a crescendo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Indigenous farmers of central Mexico faced long-term problems standard …
Rooted in Place
Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570–1914
Häftad, 2025
395 kr
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Since the first moment of conquest, colonizers and the colonized alike in Mexico confronted questions about what it meant to be from this place, what natural resources it offered, and who had the right to control those resources and on what basis.Focusing on the ways people, environment, and …
Rooted in Place
Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570–1914
Inbunden, 2025
1157 kr
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Since the first moment of conquest, colonizers and the colonized alike in Mexico confronted questions about what it meant to be from this place, what natural resources it offered, and who had the right to control those resources and on what basis. Focusing on the ways people, environment, and …
Activist Biology
The National Museum, Politics, and Nation-Building in Brazil
Inbunden, 2016
668 kr
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Brazilian society was shaken by turmoil in the 1920s and 1930s. The country was rocked by heated debates over race and immigration, burgeoning social movements in cities and the countryside, entrenched oligarchies clinging to power, and nature being despoiled. Against this turbulent backdrop, a …
Land, Liberty, and Water
Morelos After Zapata, 1920-1940
Inbunden, 2018
668 kr
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Following the death of Emiliano Zapata in 1919, the Zapatistas continued to lead the struggle for land reform. Land, Liberty, and Water offers a political and environmental history of the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution by examining the insurgency in the state of Morelos. Salvador Salinas …
