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Big Water
"A transnational approach to the history of a key Latin American border region"--Provided by publisher.
Nationalizing Nature
An insightful look at how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas.
Environmental History of Modern Migrations
In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis. Environmental History of Modern Migrations offers a worldwide perspective on the history of migrations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and provides an opportunity to reflect on the global ecological transformations and developments which have occurred throughout the last few centuries. With a primary focus on the environment/migration nexus, this book advocates that global environmental changes are not distinct from global social transformations. Instead, it offers a progressive method of combining environmental and social history, which manages to both encompass and transcend current approaches to environmental justice issues. This edited collection will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental history and migration studies, as well as those with an interest in history and sociology.
Learning from Empire
Internationalisation of medical knowledge, its circulation and implementation through colonial institutions have played a significant role in combating diseases of public health importance. With contributions from reputed faculty and researchers, this volume examines the dynamics of circulation of medical knowledge and the creation of webs of empire through medical curiosities, medical and architectural knowledge, medical manuscripts, African agency, medical ideas and management of diseases, surgical and anatomical knowledge and a collective scientific enterprise in translating ‘local’ to ‘universal’ paradigms of practice.
Jewish Experiences across the Americas
Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume This volume explores the local specificities and global forces that shaped Jewish experiences in the Americas across five centuries. Featuring a range of case studies by scholars from the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Israel, it explores the culturally, religiously, and politically diverse lives of Jewish minorities in the Western Hemisphere. The chapters are organized chronologically and trace four global forces: the western expansion of early modern European empires, Jewish networks across and beyond empires, migration, and Jewish activism and participation in international ideological movements. The volume weaves together i...
Speaking Memory
Speaking Memory evokes the complex "language-scapes" that form at the crossroads of culture and history in cities. While engaging with current debates on the nature and role of translation in globalized urban landscapes, the contributors offer a series of detailed and nuanced readings of “translational” cities – their histories, their construction and transformation in memory, and the artistic projects that tell their stories. The three sections of the book highlight historical case studies, conceptual issues, and text-based analyses of city scripts, in particular as they relate to creative literary practices and language interventions on the surface of the city itself. In this volume,...
Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton
Plantations are a key institution of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also one of the most consequential modes of production. This volume assembles articles on commodities as diverse ase coffee, cotton, rubber and apples, providing overviews on plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand while at the same time exploring the multitude of dimensions that the environmental history of plantations incorporates. The global history of plantation systems highlights the enormous resilience of modern monocultures but also the price that humans and environments were paying. "
Extensão e desenvolvimento regional
O presente livro intitulado “Extensão e Desenvolvimento Regional: da teoria à prática”, organizado pela colega Dra Cidonea Machado Deponti ao reunir um conjunto de importantes reflexões e resultados advindos de projetos e ações de extensão desenvolvidas por colegas que atuam em diferentes programas de pós-graduação do País, notadamente do campo do desenvolvimento regional, tem o mérito justamente de valorizar e de divulgar as ações e iniciativas extensionistas realizadas em distintas regiões do Brasil. O livro também adquire importância por dar centralidade à extensão universitária realizada pelos Programas de Pós-Graduação, compartilhando diferentes abordagens teórico-metodológicas e experiências de intervenção, mediação e coparticipação na realidade social das regiões em seus processos de desenvolvimento.
Historia ambiental de la agroindustria cañera en el valle del río Cauca
Este libro tiene como propósito promover el conocimiento en torno a las lógicas de transformación y cambio socioterritorial con impactos ambientales, paisajísticos, económicos y sociales en el valle geográfico del río Cauca producidas por la presencia del monopolio agroindustrial cañero. S
Fronteiras na História
Este livro apresenta resultados de anos de investigações de um sem-número de trabalhos nos mais diferentes formatos, do diálogo estreito com as mais diversas linhas de pesquisa em programas de pós-graduação no Brasil e no exterior e através de projetos financiados por governos estaduais, nacionais e instituições internacionais, os quais convergem seus esforços em um ponto central: demonstrar a profundidade e a riqueza analítica dos estudos sobre a formação da Fronteira Sul, do final do século XVIII até o século XX. Esta publicação, diante da atualidade, complexidade e necessidade de um esforço coletivo, propõe pensar a fronteira e os limites não como linha a ser meramen...
