Author : Lou Dematteis
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : Nature
ISBN :
An indigenous community's landmark legal case to hold Chevron accountable for its contamination of the Amazon
Author : Maximilian Fritz Feichtner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1009343076
A compelling study for readers interested in the environmental history of Latin America, this book sheds light on the complex history of the Ecuadorian rainforest and the impact oil development. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : John Soluri
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1785333917
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN :
Author : Lou Dematteis
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Vietnam
ISBN :
Author : Lou Dematteis
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393029659
Photographs portray ten years of conflict between the Sandinistas and the Contras in this Central American country
Author : Vicente Pérez Rosales
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198027829
These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as a miner for precious metals in the north of Chile; as participant in the California Gold Rush in 1849; as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in the wild south of Chile; and also as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg. Around the world, Rosales lived through many of his era's watershed moments. His exciting memoirs offer a chance to relive the rush and chaos of these times--from a much safer vantage.
Author : Bernd Reiter
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1478002018
The contributors to Constructing the Pluriverse critique the hegemony of the postcolonial Western tradition and its claims to universality by offering a set of “pluriversal” approaches to understanding the coexisting epistemologies and practices of the different worlds and problems we inhabit and encounter. Moving beyond critiques of colonialism, the contributors rethink the relationship between knowledge and power, offering new perspectives on development, democracy, and ideology while providing diverse methodologies for non-Western thought and practice that range from feminist approaches to scientific research to ways of knowing expressed through West African oral traditions. In combination, these wide-ranging approaches and understandings form a new analytical toolbox for those seeking creative solutions for dismantling Westernization throughout the world. Contributors. Zaid Ahmad, Manuela Boatcă, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Raewyn Connell, Arturo Escobar, Sandra Harding, Ehsan Kashfi, Venu Mehta, Walter D. Mignolo, Ulrich Oslender, Issiaka Ouattara, Bernd Reiter, Manu Samnotra, Catherine E. Walsh, Aram Ziai
Author : Lukasz Stanek
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0816666164
Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.
Author : Bernard Tschumi
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Philosophy and architecture by Bernard Tschumi.
