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urn:uuid:2e6a50dc-768c-406c-8c66-9def12160601 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2e6a50dc-768c-406c-8c66-9def12160601 15 9781915249524 06 10.14296/cmpd3083 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode 01 01 More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean Decentring the Human in Environmental History 1 B01 21 0000-0002-2415-4675 Diogo de Carvalho Cabral 2 B01 21 0000-0002-6959-3196 André Vasques Vital 3 B01 21 0000-0003-3448-0260 Margarita Gascón 01 eng 00 308 03 20 ecology 10 HIS052000 93 NHK 12 RNA 12 HBAH 10 NAT010000 93 RNA 20 south america 12 1KLS 20 latin america 93 NHAH 10 SCI100000 93 1KL 10 5.0.0.0.0.0.0 20 environmental humanities 20 Caribbean 20 historiography 20 non-human 20 climate change 20 biophysical 20 history 01 06 03 00 <p>The Latin American and Caribbean regions’ historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-nonhuman interactions. In these histories people are important, even crucial, actors, but not the only ones. Offering a novel approach to the writing of Latin American history, this book brings nine thought-provoking chapters together with a historiographical introduction and critical afterword to centre nonhuman beings and things. The oscillating glare of the sun, the resourcefulness of insects, the tectonic instability of national territories, and the life-giving and intractable impassivity of rivers are some of the other-than-human agents driving history in the volume’s chapters. It problematises Latin American(ist) historiography’s tendency to frame ‘nature’ as a separate ontological domain that is only acted upon – conquered, manipulated, devastated – lacking the self-propelled dynamics capable of shaping the course of events. With broad regional and temporal coverage across Latin America and the Caribbean from the pre-colonial period to the present day, the book responds to environmental history’s call to write biophysical environments into the human past – a reconsideration of historical agency that, in this era of climate change, is needed now more than ever.</p> 01 00 03 02 https://books.uolpress.co.uk/10.14296/cmpd3083_frontcover.jpg University of London Press 01 University of London Press London, GB 04 19 2024 06 15 9781915249517 06 15 9781915249500 06 15 9781915249524 06 15 9781915249692 09 University of London Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.uolpress.co.uk/10.14296/cmpd3083.pdf 99 04 09 University of London Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://uolpress.co.uk/book/more-than-human-histories-of-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/ 99 04