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Volkswagen in the Amazon
The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.
Biodiversity - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II
Enriches contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History
The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-term shifts in the field, and charts potential new directions for study. It focuses on five key areas: Theories and concepts related to changing considerations of social justice, including postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist approaches, and the field’s growing emphasis on multiple human voices and agencies. The ro...
forum for inter-american research Vol 3
Volume 3 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Sweet Fuel
Early sugar and ethanol policy, 1933-1959 -- Sugar, ethanol, and development, 1959-1975 -- Proálcool, 1975-1985 -- Lakes of sacrifice: ethanol and water pollution -- Proálcool, caneworkers, and the guariba strikes of 1984 -- Proálcool reimagined, 1985-2003.
Hydropower in Authoritarian Brazil
This timely examination of hydropower in Brazil brings nuance to energy debates, centring social and environmental justice.
Saving the World?
An innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable, even as critics in aid-recipient nations suggested it was a form of neocolonialism. It will benefit scholars and students of history, development studies and international relations.
Postcolonial People
Explores how European nations were remade by the end of empire, through the history of 'returning' settlers from Portuguese Africa.
Race, Rights and Reform
Innovative new study mapping African American and Francophone black intellectual collaborations over human rights and citizenship from 1919 to 1963.
