...Mira Kohl Book Reviews Latin America and the Caribbean The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835 1945. By Oscar de la Torre. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 242 pp., $34.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-4324-3. Once largely dominated by the work...

...Maron Greenleaf Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia . By Jeffrey Hoelle . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 212 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-292-76134-6. © 2016 the Agricultural History Society 2016 2016 Book Reviews...

...Ryan Adams Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests . By Nicholas C. Kawa . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 202 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4773-0844-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People...

... as a threat to our common future. Greg Grandin s new book addresses both dimensions simultaneously, as he chronicles Henry Ford s 130 2011 Book Reviews disastrous eighteen-year effort to grow plantation rubber in Amazonia on a scale equal to the production of his cars in Detroit. Grandin is strategically...

... Reviews disastrous eighteen-year effort to grow plantation rubber in Amazonia on a scale equal to the production of his cars in Detroit. Grandin is strategically placed to tell this tale; he is well grounded in the social and political history of Brazil,and his previous book,Empire sWorkshop, traces...

...Jason M. Colby A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic . By Kevin Coleman . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . 316 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4773-0855-4 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 tle Culture in Western Amazonia...

.... These topics are discussed, to various degrees, in this edited volume comprised of pre-columbian case studies (500 Bce through european contact) covering areas as diverse as the American southwest and midwest to the tropical rainforests of the maya area in central America and Amazonia in south America. climate...

... of the maya area in central America and Amazonia in south America. climate is mentioned in a few chapters, especially when there is clear evidence that it played a major role in disrupting food production. But the major topics covered are soils, population, and society. The focus on population size...

... , 2005 ), 146 – 79 . 16. William M. Denevan , Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes: Triumph over the Soil ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2001 ), 115 – 32 ; B. L. Turner , “Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Mayan Lowlands,” Science 185 ( July...

...: The Rise of Cattle Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Holmes, Katie, Andrea Gaynor, and Ruth Morgan. Doing Environmental History in Urgent Times. History Australia (2020). httpsdoi.org/10.1080/14490854.2020.1758579. Hribal, Jason. Animals Are Part...

..., and Profit: An Environmental History of Cattle Ranching in Colombia, 1850–1950,” Geoforum 40 ( Sept. 2009 ): 707 – 19 ; Susana B. Hecht , “The Logic of Livestock and Deforestation in Amazonia,” BioScience 43 ( Nov. 1993 ): 692 ; Salomón Kalmanovitz , “El desarrollo de la ganadería...

... Amazônia, 2005), 13 21. 84. Richard Grove, Ecology, Climate, and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400 1940 (Cambridge: The White Horse Press, 1997), 124 46; Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts; Judith Richell, Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma (Singapore: NUS Press, 2006), 210 14...

... Culture: Anthropogenic Soils and Vegetation in Tapajonia, Brazilian Amazonia." University of Wiscon? sin, Madison (USA), 2004. Mendez, V Ernesto. "Traditional Shade, Rural Livelihoods and Conser? vation in Small Coffee Farms and Cooperatives of Western El Salvador." University of California, Santa Cruz...

... trajectories that brought Mennonite, Andean and Okinawan settlers to the forested fringes of Amazonia and the Gran Chaco. DEBRA A. REID is Curator of Agriculture and the Environment at The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan. Her publications include Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension...