Towards an Environmental History of the Amazon: From Prehistory to the Nineteenth Century

This article reviews the environmental history of the Amazon basin from early prehistory to the 1850s, concluding at the start of the rubber boom. It argues that the Amazon's past can be understood in terms of a transition from wilderness to landscape, in a broadly similar way to the environmen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Latin American Research Review. - University of Texas Press, 1965. - 36(2001), 2, Seite 65-96
1. Verfasser: Cleary, David (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2001
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Latin American Research Review
Schlagworte:Physical sciences Biological sciences Information science Behavioral sciences