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Article: Nature and culture in Latin America.(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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An Environmental History of Latin America. Shawn William Miller. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]35.00 (US$65).xiii + 257 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-61298-2.
In this book, the word 'history' is used in its broadest sense, where human history is no more than a chapter in the story of life on earth, which in turn is a chapter in the history of the universe. Such a broad sense of history requires organising facts in a meaningful way, perhaps by a temporal series of recreated landscapes. Easier said than done, says the author, a lecturer at Brigham Young University, after pointing out the inherent pitfalls of the cultural biases of the chroniclers in their ...