Online Bibliography For Environmental History of Latin America
I am proud to say that the Online Bibliography for Environmental History of Latin America has now over 400
references, thanks to the invaluable suggestions of colleagues all over the field. In fact, we are still checking
references and updating the bibliography, and the suggestions are pilling up, which is good: keep sending them.
This recent update has only be possible thanks to the hard work of three new editors:
General Editor:
Lise Sedrez
Stanford University
Board:
John Wirth
Stanford University
José Drummond
Universidade
Federal Fluminense
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Pat Dreger, grad student (ABD PhD) at Univ. of Akron, Ohio. Her dissertation is on the relationship of the
church to the indigenous of Mexico, especially Chiapas, over the past few hundred years. The work has an
environmental, i.e. land use, element. She is a volunteer editor for Chiapas95. She is responsible for the
Pre-Colombian and Colonial references of the Mesoamerica section.
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Darcy Carrizales is the Government Documents/Reference Librarian at the Killam Library, Texas A&M
International University. She is responsible for the references for the Caribbean section.
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Andrew Sackett is a Ph.D. student in Yale University's Department of History. He is currently in Mexico
doing research for his dissertation, an environmental history of Acapulco in the 20th century. His work
focuses on issues of landscape, urbanization, pollution, state power and the imagining of Acapulco between
the 1930s and the 1970s. He is responsible for the Post- Colonial references of the Mesoamerica section.
We are still looking for editors for Andes, ConoSur and Amazon.
We have also received several constructive comments on methodology. For instance, some colleagues noted that we
need a better definition on what is Environmental History for Latin America, and how is it different from Historical
Geography, a field with much more tradition among Latin American scholars. In other words, we have to define how
to foster interdisciplinarity without loosing perspective on what is specific of Environmental History. We hope that
at least the existence of this site helps to bring about a productive discussion on the future of this field. As for the
very limited purposes of this bibliography, we have included scholarly works that focus on chronological change in
the interaction of human and nature, disregard of the actual academic affiliation of their authors.
About our sources and the bioregional divisions, please go to Considerations.
Please send your feedback about readability, important omissions, and reference mistakes (grammar and spelling
corrections are also welcome). I am also writing an article about the state of the field, so if you find appropriate,
please send your comments.
I hope you find this page useful for your work. Have fun!