Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations, Tables, and Figures vii
4. List of Maps ix
5. Preface x
6. Introduction. Finding the “Latin American” in Latin American Environmental History 1
7. Chapter 1. Mexico’s Ecological Revolutions 23
8. Chapter 2. The Greater Caribbean and the Transformation of Tropicality 45
9. Chapter 3. Indigenous Imprints and Remnants in the Tropical Andes 67
10. Chapter 4. The Dilemma of the “Splendid Cradle”: Nature and Territory in the Construction of Brazil 91
11. Chapter 5. From Threatening to Threatened Jungles 115
12. Chapter 6. The Ivy and the Wall: Environmental Narratives from an Urban Continent 138
13. Chapter 7. Home Cooking: Campesinos, Cuisine, and Agrodiversity 163
14. Chapter 8. Hoofprints: Cattle Ranching and Landscape Transformation 183
15. Chapter 9. Extraction Stories: Workers, Nature, and Communities in the Mining and Oil Industries 205
16. Chapter 10. Prodigality and Sustainability: Th e Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development 226
17. Chapter 11. A Panorama of Parks: Deep Nature, Depopulation, and the Cadence of Conserving Nature 246
18. Epilogue. Latin American Environmental History in Global Perspective 266
19. Selected Bibliography 277
20. Index 288