History 263 - COLQ: SPANISH AMER & BRAZIL

Topics course.: This colloquium introduces major themes, debates and works in Latin American environmental history within the larger context of global environmental historiography. The course is organized chronologically, historiographically and geographically, tracing the changing human-environment relationship over time from pre-conquest to the present, the changing ways historians have approached this issue, and how historical and historiographical dynamics played out in different regions of Latin America. We focus on the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and Brazil, where we pay particular attention to the relationship of indigenous communities to natural resources and their negotiations over these resources with other local, national and international groups and institutions. (E)

Topic: Natural Resources and the Environment in Latin American History.