...E. E. Hegen The Cloud Forest . By Matthiessen Peter . New York , 1961 . The Viking Press . Illustrations. Index . Pp. 280 . $6.50 . Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Thirty or even only twenty years ago the title of this book would have read simply: By Boat...

...Michael Edward Stanfield Colonization as Exploitation in the Amazon Rain Forest, 1758–1911 . By Anderson Robin L. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 1999 . Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 197 pp. Cloth , $49.95 . Copyright 2001 by Duke...

...Janet M. Chernela Guyana, Fragile Frontier is the fourth book in a series by Colchester, founder and director of the World Rainforest Movement’s Forest Peoples Programme, on the political ecology of tropical forest peoples and tropical forest resource exploitation. Two related books...

...Roger L. Cunniff With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest . By Dean Warren . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1995 . Maps. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography , xx , 482 pp. Cloth. $38.00 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press...

...Othín Baños Ramírez Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico . By Faust Betty Bernice . Foreword by Meggers Betty J. . Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey , 1998 . Photographs. Illustrations...

...T. B. Davis, Jr. David Curtis De Forest and the Revolution of Buenos Aires . By Keen Benjamin . [ Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany, XLVI .] ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1947 . Pp. 186 . Illustrations. $3.00 .) Copyright 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 ...

...Charles Wagley Wai-Wai. Through the Forest North of the Amazon . By Guppy Nicholas . New York , 1958 . E. P. Dutton . Illustrations. Index. Glossary . Pp. x , 373 . 85.95 . Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

...John P. Harrison The Immaculate Forest . By Philipson W. R. . ( New York : Philosophical Library, Inc. , 1952 . Pp. 218 . Illustrations, maps, index . $4.50 .) Copyright 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 ...

...James L. Crouthamel Pioneering in South Brazil. Three Years of Forest and Prairie Life in the Province of Paraná . 2 vols. By Bigg-Wither Thomas P. . New York , 1968 . Greenwood Press . Illustrations. Maps. Table. Appendix . Pp. xiii , 378 ; x , 328 . $25.00 . Copyright...

... passion which makes pale those of the modern novelist. This is due as much to the author’s craft as to racy dialogue of the Yanomami themselves. Through Lizot’s descriptive powers, one breathes the forest environment; experiences the tropical rainfall; inhales the dampness of the vegetation; and hears...

...Jeremy A. Sabloff Once Beneath the Forest: Prehistoric Terracing in the Río Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands . By Turner B. L. II . Boulder : Westview Press , 1983 . Figures. Tables. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 209 . Paper . $17.00...

...David McCreery Forest Society: A Social History of Peten, Guatemala . By Schwartz Norman . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1990 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 367 pp. Paper . $13.95 . Copyright 1992 by Duke...

...Omer C. Stewart The Upland Pine Forests of Nicaragua: A Study in Cultural Plant Geography . By Genevan William M. . Berkeley , 1961 . University of California Press . University of California Publications in Geography , Volume 12 , No. 4 . Pp. 251 - 320 . $1.50 . Copyright...

... of indigenous Mapuches. 1 Aside from the transparent attempt to appropriate the discourse of the U.S. government’s “global war on terror,” the advertisement’s alarmist rhetoric invoked the many histories of peasant struggle against forest management and commercial logging around the globe. The accusations...

...David Block Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic . By Radding Cynthia . Durham : Duke University Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index...

...Anne Hanley Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil . By Cribelli Teresa . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 253 pp. Cloth , $99.99 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

...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 ©...

...Evan R. Ward Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico . By Boyer Christopher R. . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Map. Figures. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 337 pp. Paper , $26.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press...

...Matthew Vitz Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests . By Mathews Andrew S. . Politics, Science, and the Environment . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 312 pp. Paper...

...Marianne Schmink Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today’s Challenges in Central and South America . Edited by Steen Harold K. and Tucker Richard P. Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forest History Group . Durham...