Suggested Further ReadingGeneralBrailovsky, Antonio Elio, and Foguelman, Dina. Memoria verde: Historia ecológica de la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1991.
Herrera, Castro Guillermo. Los trabajos de ajuste y combate: naturaleza y sociedad en la historia de América Latina. Bogotá: Ediciones Casa de las Américas, 1994.
Dean, Warren. With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Evans, Sterling. The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature. New York: Free Press, 2001.
García Martínez, Bernardo, and Alba, González Jácome, eds. Estudios sobre historia y ambiente en América I: Argentina, Bolivia, México, Paraguay. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1999.
García Martínez, Bernardo, and María del Rosario Prieto, , eds. Estudios sobre historia y ambiente en América II: Norteamérica, Sudamérica y el Pacífico. Mexico City: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, 2002.
Kircher, John. A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics, 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
McNeill, J. R.Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.
Richards, John F.The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Roberts, J. Timmons, and Thanos, Nikki Demetria. Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Simonian, Lane. Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Williams, Michael. Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Chapter 1: an old world before it was “new”Arnold, Philip P.Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1999.
Ayerza, Ricardo Jr., and Coates, Wayne. Chia: Rediscovering a Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005.
Balee, William, ed. Advances in Historical Ecology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Butzer, Karl W. “Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World.” Antiquity 70:267 (1996): 200–5.
Coe, Sophie D.America's First Cuisines. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Denevan, William M. “The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82:3 (1992): 369–85.
Denevan, William M.Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Denevan, William M. “The Native Population of Amazonia in 1492 Reconsidered.” Revista de Indias 43 (2003): 175–88.
Fisher, Christopher T., Helen, P. Pollard, Israde-Alcántera, Isabel, Victor, H. Garduño-Monroy, and Subir, K. Banerjee. “A Reexamination of Human-Induced Environmental Change within the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (2003): 4957–62.
Krech, Shepard III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
Lentz, David, ed. Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
LeVine, Terry Y., ed. Inka Storage Systems. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Mann, Charles C.1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Murra, John V.The Economic Organization of the Inca State. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1980.
O'Hara, Sarah L., Street-Perrott, F. Alayne, and Timothy, P. Burt. “Accelerated Soil Erosion around a Mexican Highland Lake Caused by Prehispanic Agriculture.” Nature 362 (March 4, 1993): 48–51.
Palerm, Ángel . Obras hidráulicas prehispánicas en el sistema lacustre del valle de México. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1973.
Schwartz, Marion. A History of Dogs in the Early Americas. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
Whitmore, Thomas M., and Turner, B. L. II. Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Chapter 2: nature's conquestsBoyer, Richard Everett. La gran inundación: Vida y sociedad en México, 1629–1638. Mexico City: Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1975.
Butzer, Karl W., and Elizabeth K. Butzer. “Transfer of the Mediterranean Livestock Economy to New Spain: Adaptation and Ecological Consequences.” In Global Land Use Change: A Perspective from the Columbia Encounter, ed. Turner, B. L. II, 151–93. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1995.
Butzer, Karl W., and Elizabeth, K. Butzer. “The ‘Natural’ Vegetation of the Mexican Bajio: Archival Documentation of a 16th-Century Savanna Environment.” Quaternary International 43:4 (1997): 161–72.
Crosby, Alfred W.The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Crosby, Alfred W.Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Endfield, Georgina H., and Sarah, L. O'Hara. “Degradation, Drought and Dissent: An Environmental History of Colonial Michoacán, West Central Mexico.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89:3 (1999): 402–22.
Gerbi, Antonello. Nature in the New World: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, trans. Jeremy Moyle. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986.
Hoberman, Louisa Schell. “Bureaucracy and Disaster: Mexico City and the Flood of 1629.” Journal of Latin American Studies 6:2 (November 1974): 211–30.
Hoberman, Louisa Schell. “Technological Change in a Traditional Society: The Case of the Desague in Colonial Mexico.” Technology and Culture 21 (July 1980): 386–407.
Holanda, Sérgio Buarque. Visão do paraíso: Os motivos edênicos no descobrimento e na colonização do Brasil, 4th ed. São Paulo: Editora Nacional, 1985.
Kiple, Kenneth F.The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Livi-Bacci, Massimo. “Return to Hispaniola: Reassessing a Demographic Catastrophe.” Hispanic American Historical Review 83 (2003): 3–51.
Melville, Elinor G. K.A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest in Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Melville, Elinor G. K. “Conquest Landscapes: Ecological Consequences of Pastoralism in the New World.” In Le Nouveau Monde–Mondes Nouveaux; L'Experience Americaine, eds. Gruzinski, Serge and Wachtel, Nathan, 99–113. Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Siences Sociales, 1996.
Musset, Alain. De l'eau vive à l'eau morte. Enjeux techniques et culturels dans la Vallée de México (XVIe–XIXe siècles). Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1991.
Musset, Alain. “De Tláloc a Hipócrates: el agua y la organización del espacio en la cuenca de México, siglos XVI–XVIII.” In Tierra, agua y bosques: historia y medio ambiente en el México central, ed. Villaseñor, Alejandro Tortolero, 127–77. Guadalajara, Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara, 1996.
Sluyter, Andrew S. “The Ecological Origins and Consequences of Cattle Ranching in Sixteenth-Century New Spain.” Geographical Review 86:2 (1996): 161–77.
Sluyter, Andrew S.Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Super, John C.Food, Conquest, and Colonization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.
Chapter 3: the colonial balance sheetAnderson, Robin L.Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758–1911. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.
Brown, Kendall W. “Workers' Health and Colonial Mercury Mining at Huancavelica, Peru.” The Americas 57:4 (April 2001): 467–96.
Brown, Larissa V. “Urban Growth, Economic Expansion, and Deforestation in Late Colonial Rio de Janeiro.” In Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America, eds. Harold, K. Steen and Richard, P. Tucker, 165–75. Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 1992.
Cleary, David. “Towards an Environmental History of the Amazon: From Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century.” Latin American Research Review 36:2 (2001): 64–96.
Cunill, Pedro. “La temprana sementera urbana chilena y los comienzos del deterioro ambiental.” In Siete estudios: Homenaje de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas a Eugenio Pereira Salas, ed. Cunill, Pedro, 59–80. Santiago: Universidad de Chile, 1975.
Dore, Elizabeth. “Environment and Society: Long-Term Trends in Latin American Mining.” Environment and History 6 (2000): 1–29.
Endfield, Georgina H., and Sarah., L. O'Hara. “Perception or Deception? Land Degradation in Post-Conquest Michoacán, West Central Mexico.” Land Degradation and Development 10 (1999): 381–96.
Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya. To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
MacCameron, Robert. “Environmental Change in Colonial New Mexico.” Environmental History Review 18:2 (1994): 17–40.
MacLeod, Murdo J. “Exploitation of Natural Resources in Colonial Central America: Indian and Spanish Approaches.” In Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America, eds. Harold, K. Steen and Richard, P. Tucker, 31–9. Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 1992.
Miller, Shawn William. “Fuelwood in Colonial Brazil: The Economic and Social Consequences of Fuel Depletion for the Bahian Recôncavo, 1549–1820.” Forest & Conservation History 38 (October 1994): 181–92.
Miller, Shawn William. Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Miller, Shawn William. “Stilt-Root Subsistence: Colonial Mangrove Conservation and Brazil's Free Poor.” Hispanic American Historical Review 83:2 (May 2003): 223–53.
Canseco, Rostworowski de Diez María. Recursos naturales renovables y pesca: siglos XVI y XVII: Curacas y sucesiones, Costa Norte, 2nd ed. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2005.
Schwartz, Stuart B.Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Sweet, David Graham. “A Rich Realm of Nature Destroyed: The Middle Amazon Valley, 1640–1750.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1974.
Watts, David. Man's Influence on the Vegetation of Barbados, 1627 to 1800. Hull, England: University of Hull, 1966.
Watts, David. The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Watts, David. “Ecological Responses to Ecosystem Shock in the Island Caribbean: The Aftermath of Columbus, 1492–1992.” In Ecological Relations in Historical Times: Human Impact and Adaptation, eds. Butlin, R. A. and Roberts, N., 267–79. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
West, Robert C.The Mining Community in Northern New Spain: The Parral Mining District. Berkeley, CA: IberoAmericana, 1949.
Chapter 4: tropical determinismBrannstrom, Christian. “Polluted Soil, Polluted Souls: The Rockefeller Hookworm Eradication Campaign in São Paulo, Brazil, 1917–1926.” Historical Geography 25 (1997): 25–45.
Cañizares-Esguerra. Jorge, . How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Caviedes, César N.El Niño in History: Storming through the Ages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. New York: Verso, 2001.
Dean, Warren. Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Durham, William. Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Origins of the Soccer War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979.
Gallup, John Luke, Gaviria, Alejandro, and Lora, Eduardo, eds. Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
García Acosta, Virginia, ed. Historia y desastres en América Latina, Vol. 1. Bogotá: La Red/CIESAS, 1996.
Gerbi, Antonello. The Dispute of the New World: The History of a Polemic, 1750–1900, revised ed., trans. Jeremy Moyle. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973.
Marquardt, Steve. “Green Havoc: Panama Disease, Environmental Change, and Labor Process in the Central American Banana Industry.” American Historical Review 106:1 (February 2001): 49–80.
Marquardt, Steve. “Pesticides, Parakeets, and Unions in the Costa Rican Banana Industry, 1938–1962.” Latin American Research Review 37:2(2002): 3–36.
McNeill, John R. “Ecology, Epidemics and Empires: Environmental Change and the Geopolitics of Tropical America, 1600–1825.” Environment and History 5 (1999): 175–84.
Pérez, Luis A. Jr.Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Richardson, Bonham C.Economy and Environment in the Caribbean: Barbados and the Windwards in the Late 1800s. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
Schwartz, Stuart B. “The Hurricane of San Ciriaco: Disaster, Politics, and Society in Puerto Rico, 1899–1901.” Hispanic American Historical Review 72:3 (August 1992), 303–34.
Schwartz, Stuart B. “Hurricanes and the Shaping of Circum-Caribbean Societies.” Florida Historical Quarterly 83:4 (2004): 381–409.
Soluri, John. “Accounting for Taste: Bananas, Mass Markets, and Panama Disease.” Environmental History 7:3 (July 2002): 386–410.
Soluri, John. “Bananas, Biodiversity, and the Paradox of Commodification.” In Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental Histories in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, ed. Brannstrom, Christian, 121–47. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2004.
Stein, Stanley. Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850–1900. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957.
Stepan, Nancy Leys. Picturing Tropical Nature. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Weinstein, Barbara. The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850–1920. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983.
Chapter 5: human determinationCariño Olvera, , Micheline, Martha. Historia de las relaciones hombre-naturaleza en Baja California Sur, 1500–1940. La Paz, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 1996.
Chalhoub, Sidney. Cidade febril: cortiços e epidemias na corte imperial. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996.
Cushman, Gregory Todd. “The Lords of Guano: Science and the Management of Peru's Marine Environment, 1800–1973.” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 2003.
Cushman, Gregory Todd. “‘The Most Valuable Birds in the World’: International Conservation Science and the Revival of Peru's Guano Industry, 1909–1965.” Environmental History 10:3 (2005): 477–509.
Maurício, Folchi Donoso. “La insustentibilidad de la industria del cobre en Chile: los hornos y los bosques durante el siglo XIX.” Revista Mapocho 49 (2001): 149–75
Garavaglia, Juan Carlos. “Human Beings and the Environment in America: On ‘Determinism’ and ‘Possibilism.’” International Social Science Journal 44:4 (1992): 569–77.
Rosa, Guayacochea de Onofri. “Urbanismo e salubridad en la ciudad de Mendoza (1880–1916).” Revista de Historia de América e Argentina 14 (1987): 171–202.
Hall, Anthony L.Drought and Irrigation in Northeast Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Konrad, Herman W. “Tropical Forest Policy and Practice during the Mexican Porfiriato, 1876–1910.” In Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Central and South America, eds. Harold, K. Steen and Richard, P. Tucker, 123–43. Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 1992.
McCook, Stuart. States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760–1940. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Perló Cohen, Manuel. El paradigma Porfiriano: Historia del desague del Valle de México. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1999.
Lankao, Romero Patricia. Obra hidráulica de le ciudad de México y su impacto socio-ambiental (1880–1990). Mexico City: Instituto Mora, 1999.
Santiago, Myrna I.The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1938. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Stepan, Nancy Leys. Beginnings of Brazilian Science: Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research, and Policy, 1890–1920. New York: Science History Publications, 1976.
Tortolero Villaseñor, Alejandro. “Transforming the Central Mexican Waterscape: Lake Drainage and its Consequences during the Porfiriato.” In Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental Histories in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, ed. Brannstrom, Christian, 121–47. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2004.
Tucker, Richard P.Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Chapter 6: asphyxiated habitatsBrowder, John, and Godry, Brian. Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization in the Amazon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Ezcurra, Exequiel. De las chinampas a la megalópolis: El medio ambiente en la Cuenca de México. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1990.
Gilbert, Alan. The Latin American City. Nottingham, England: Monthly Review Press, 1998.
Joseph, Gilbert M., and Mark, D. Szuchman, eds. I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Latin America. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1996.
Keck, Margaret. “‘Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink:’ Land Use and Water Policy in São Paulo.” In Livable Cities: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability, ed. Evans, Peter, 162–97. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Lewis, Oscar. “Urbanization without Breakdown: A Case Study.” The Scientific Monthly 75 (1952): 31–41.
McKibben, Bill. Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1995.
Menezes, Cláudio Luiz. Desenvolvimento urbano e meio ambiente: a experiencia de Curitiba. Campinas, Brazil: Papirus, 1996.
Pezzoli, Keith. Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1998.
Schwartz, Hugh. Urban Renewal, Municipal Revitalization: The Case of Curitiba, Brazil. Alexandria, VA: Hugh Schwartz, 2004.
Simon, Joel. Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997.
Trindade, Etelvina Maria de Castro, et al. Cidade, homem, natureza: uma história das políticas ambientais de Curitiba. Curitiba, Brazil: Universidade Livre do Meio Ambiente, Secretaria Municipal do Meio Ambiente, 1997.
Tulchin, Joseph, ed. Economic Development and Environmental Protection in Latin America. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991.
Chapter 7: developing environmentalismBrannstrom, Christian. “Rethinking the ‘Atlantic Forest’ of Brazil: New Evidence for Land Cover and Land Value in Western São Paulo, 1900–1930.” Journal of Historical Geography 28 (2002): 420–39.
Carvalho, José Murilo. “O motivo edênico no imaginário social brasileiro.” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 13:38 (October 1998): 63–81.
Guillermo, Castro Herrera. “On Cattle and Ships: Culture, History and Sustainable Development in Panama.” Environment and History 7 (2001): 201–17.
Coomes, Oliver T. “A Century of Rainforest Use in Western Amazonia: Lessons for Extraction-Based Conservation of Tropical Forest Resources.” Forest & Conservation History 39:3 (July 1995): 108–20.
Dean, Warren. “Ecological and Economic Relationships in Frontier History: São Paulo, Brazil.” In Essays on Frontiers in World History, eds. Wolfskill, George and Palmer, Stanley, 71–100. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1983.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
Drummond, José Augusto. “The Garden in the Machine: An Environmental History of Brazil's Tijuca Forest.” Environmental History 1:1 (1996): 83–104.
Drummond, José Augusto. Devastação e preservação ambiental no Rio de Janeiro. Niterói, Brazil: Editora da Universidade Federal Fluminense, 1997.
Endfield, Georgina H., and Sarah, L. O'Hara. “Conflicts Over Water in ‘The Little Drought Age’ in Central Mexico.” Environment and History 3 (1997): 255–72
Faber, Daniel. Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Latin America. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993.
Garcia-Johnson, Ronie. Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico. Cambridge: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2000.
Goldstein, Karl. “The Green Movement in Brazil.” In Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change: The Green Movement Worldwide, ed. Finger, Matthias, 119–93. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1992.
Graham, Wade. “MexEco?: Mexican Attitudes Toward the Environment.” Environmental History Review 15 (1991): 1–17.
Grove, Richard H.Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Guha, Ramachandra. Environmentalism: A Global History. New York: Longman, 2000.
Guha, Ramachandra, and Martinez-Alier, Joan. Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South. London: Earthscan, 1997.
Hecht, Susanna, and Cockburn, Alexander. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.
Howard, Philip. “The History of Ecological Marginalization in Chiapas.” Environmental History 3:3 (1998): 357–77.
Jacobs, Jamie Elizabeth. “Community Participation, the Environment, and Democracy: Brazil in Comparative Perspective.” Latin American Politics and Society 44:4 (2002): 59–88.
Keck, Margaret. “Parks, People and Power: The Shifting Terrain of Environmentalism.” NACLA Report on the Americas 28:5 (March/April 1995), 36–41.
Lutzenberger, José A.O fim do futuro. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Editora Movimento, 1976.
Martinez-Alier, Joan. The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2002.
McNeill, John R. “Deforestation in the Araucaria Zone of Southern Brazil, 1900–1983.” In World Deforestation in the Twentieth Century, eds. John, F. Richards and Richard, P. Tucker, 15–32. Durham, NC: Duke Press Policy Studies, 1988.
Nash, Roderick. “The Exporting and Importing of Nature: Nature-Appreciation as a Commodity, 1850–1980.” Perspectives in American History 12 (1979): 517–60.
Pádua, José Augusto. “The Birth of Green Politics in Brazil: Exogenous and Endogenous Factors.” In Green Politics Two, ed. Rüdig, Wolfgang. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
Pádua, José Augusto. “Cultura esgotadora: Agricultura e destruição ambiental nas últimas décadas do Brasil Império.” Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura 11 (October 1998): 134–63.
Pádua, José Augusto. Um sopro de destruição: Pensamento político e crítica ambiental no Brasil escravista (1786–1888), 2nd ed. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2004.
Pattullo, Polly. Last Resorts: The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean. London: Cassell, 1996.
Place, Susan E. “Ecotourism and the Political Ecology of ‘Sustainable Development’ in Costa Rica.” In Tropical Rainforests: Latin American Nature and Society in Transition, revised ed., ed. Susan, E. Place, 221–31. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
Sedrez, Lise Fernanda. “The Bay of All Beauties: State and Nature in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1875–1975.” Ph.D. diss., Stanford University, 2004.
Sonnenfeld, David A. “Mexico's ‘Green Revolution,’ 1940–1980: Towards an Environmental History.” Environmental Review 16:4 (1992): 29–52.
Wallace, David Rains. The Quetzal and Macaw: Costa Rica's National Parks. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996.
Wood, Charles, and Schmink, Marianne. “The Military and the Environment in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Political and Military Sociology 21:1 (1993): 81–105.
Wright, Angus. The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma, revised ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.
Mirabal, Zerpa, Alfonso, J.Explotación y comercio de plumas de garza en Venezuela: fines del siglo XIX–principios del siglo XX. Caracas: Ediciones del Congreso de la República, 1998.
Epilogue: cuba's latest revolutionDiaz-Briquets, Sergio, and Pérez-López, Jorge, eds. Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2000.
Funes, Fernando, García, Luis, Bourque, Martin, Pérez, Nilda, and Rosset, Peter, eds. Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba. Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2002.
