Search Results for ecology

...Donald D. Brand The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology . By Aschmann Homer . Berkeley-Los Angeles , 1959 . University of California Press . Ibero-Americana: No. 42 . Maps. Table. Chart. Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. x , 315 . Paper. $5.00...

... © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 A Carceral Ecology: Ushuaia and the History of Landscape and Punishment in Argentina . By Ryan C. Edwards . Oakland : University of California Press , 2022 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv , 254 pp. Paper, $34.95 . ...

...George Kubler The Historical Demography and Ecology of the Teotlalpan . By Cook Sherburne F. . [ Ibero-Americana: 33 .] ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1949 . Pp. 59 . Paper .) Soil Erosion and Population in Central Mexico . By Cook Sherburne...

...Preston James Copyright 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Human Geography and Ecology in the Sinú Country of Colombia . By Gordon B. Le Roy . Berkeley , 1957 . University of California Press . Ibero-Americana, 39 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Plates . Pp. viii...

...Heather L. McCrea Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620 – 1914 . By McNeill J. R. . New Approaches to the Americas . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xviii , 314 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii , 371 pp. Paper , $24.99...

...Robert J. Cottrol [email protected] Mastering the Law: Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire . By Ricardo Raúl Salazar Rey . Atlantic Crossings . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2020 . Photograph. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

... unconvincing manner. Nevertheless, her book will stand as a milestone on the road to more satisfying holistic explanations of village-level environmental processes in Central America. Given this general failure adequately to prioritize the various social, economic, and ecological factors used to explain...

... teórico para el manejo de las cuestiones ecológicas entre México y Estados Unidos, Jorge A. Vargas; Contaminación y sociedad: Los problemas ocultos de la frontera norte, Iván Restrepo Fernández and Theodore E. Downing; The Social Effects of the Ecology and Development of the United States–Mexico Border...

...O. Nigel Bolland Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life Among the Kekchi Maya in Belize . By Wilk Richard R. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1991 . Graphs. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxii , 280 pp. Cloth . $55.00 . Copyright 1992...

...Richard Conway A City on a Lake: Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City . By Matthew Vitz . Radical Perspectives . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2018 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 338 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2020...

...Daniela Spenser The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900 – 1938 . By Santiago Myrna I. . Studies in Environment and History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2006 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii...

...Christopher R. Boyer Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880 – 1950 . By Evans Sterling . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2007 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes...

...Shelton H. Davis Latin America in Transition: The Influence of Culture on Ecology, Power, and Diversity . By Smith Sheldon . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2003 . Maps. Bibliography. Index . xii , 475 pp. Cloth , $84.00 . Paper , $63.00 . Copyright 2005...

...Robert C. West The Valley of Mexico: Studies in Pre-Hispanic Ecology and Society . Edited and with an introduction by Wolf Eric R. . Albuquerque , 1976 . University of New Mexico Press . Tables. Graphs. Figures. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 337 . Cloth. $20.00...

... as a central motif of the highlands, and a final chapter candidly describes how the anthropologist became embroiled in this ancient opposition. Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village . By Isbell Billie Jean . Austin , 1978...

...Evelyn Hu-Dehart Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 . By Radding Cynthia . Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations . Durham : Duke University Press , 1997 . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Figures...

... “ecology” in a broader sense, as the title implies. Robins’s interest in solid fuel used for processing mercury and amalgam is far less sustained than his interest in mercury and silver mining and refining. Also, the eloquent passage on complex long-distance food chains sustaining Potosí (p. 40) is at odds...

...Thomas D. Rogers La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory . By Klubock Thomas Miller . Radical Perspectives . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 385 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright ©...

...A. C. Roosevelt San Jacinto 1: An Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia . By Oyuela-Caycedo Augusto and Bonzani Renee M. . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

... on the ecologically corrosive effects of the modern export economy (most of the book concerns the 1980s), defects overwhelm the book’s message. Overstatement and imprecision especially afflict the treatment of the lamentable U.S. role. Faber confuses intention with byproduct: “The United States is also at war...