UID:
kobvindex_HPB1451509127
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
1ST ED.
ISBN:
3839470129
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9783839470121
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Academic Advisory Board -- General Introduction -- The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis -- Periods of the Anthropocene's Genealogy in Latin America -- Colonial Period -- From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- From 1950 to the Present -- Anthropocene Regions in Latin America -- Southern Cone -- Andes -- Amazon -- Mesoamerica -- Caribbean -- Biodiversity -- Final Words -- Colonial Period -- Introduction: Biodiversity and the Anthropocene in Colonial Latin America -- References -- Biodiversity in the Southern Cone in the Colonial Period
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Early Connections with "Others" in Colonial Spaces -- Intruders, yet Colonial Partners -- Horses: the Novel Deities -- Cattle as Environmental Vocation -- Colonial Ontologies of the Anthropocene: Some Current Considerations -- References -- Biodiversity in the Andes in the Colonial Period -- Livestock and Conquest -- The Expansion of European Livestock in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century -- Livestock and the Rise of the Colonial Mining Economy: Potosí and the Andean South (1570-1600) -- The Reception of European Livestock by Indigenous People -- Conclusion -- References
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Biodiversity in the Amazon in the Colonial Period -- Early Gestures: The Arrival of Spaniards and Portuguese during the Colonial Period -- How Europeans Registered Biological Diversity in the Amazon -- Natural Knowledge as Political Argument -- Conclusion -- References -- Biodiversity in Mesoamerica in the Colonial Period -- Encounter, Colonization, and Impacts on Mesoamerican Biodiversity -- Final Remarks -- References -- Biodiversity in the Caribbean in the Colonial Period -- Plantation and Counter-Plantation Animalities -- Provision Grounds and the Ambiguous Materiality of Freedom
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Counter-Plantation Futures -- References -- From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Introduction: Biodiversity and the Anthropocene in Latin America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- References -- Biodiversity in the Southern Cone from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Environmental Knowledge -- Extracting Plants and Animals -- Agriculture and Rural Colonization -- Forestry and Deforestation -- Cattle and Animal Husbandry -- Fish Farming -- Neobiotic Transformations -- The Protection of Biodiversity -- Impacting Socio-Biodiversity: Conquest, Colonization, and First Acceleration
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-7012-0
Language:
English
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