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Description:: Making the Coast Pacific is an environmental history of violence against places, plants, and people. Mexico's Pacific Coast region was a key site for oilseed agriculture and industrialization, which resulted in environmental violence and injustice. Since the region with Mexico's largest population of afro-descendants, Costa Chica, was also Mexico's leading...
Keyword:: Agrarian reform, Agribusiness history, Oilseed crops, Environmental Violence, Afro-Mexico, and Agrochemicals
Subject:: Latin American history, Science history, and Environmental studies
Creator:: Porter, Jayson Maurice
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16288 and etdadmin_upload_933029

Description:: This dissertation is about people living with the ruins of an old city. It demonstrates that ruined cities can provide sources of cultural identity and community life, conditions that contribute to social revitalization in times of crisis. The case study for this dissertation examines the ancient Maya city of Ake,...
Keyword:: Community regeneration, Ancient Maya, Settlement regeneration, Ruins, Political collapse, and Yucatan
Subject:: Latin American history and Archaeology
Creator:: Rosado Ramirez, Roberto
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15822 and etdadmin_upload_856308

Description:: This dissertation explores an intellectual and political tradition that questioned the use of natural resources and the socioeconomic structures of rural Brazil in the early 20th century. “Organicist agrarianism” postulated an orderly transformation of the Brazil under the guidance of the state in the name of a natural and eternal...
Keyword:: Political history, Conservation, Intellectual history, Agrarianism, History of ideas, and Brazil
Subject:: History, Latin American history, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Bottura, Juri
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14522 and etdadmin_upload_639646

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