{"product_id":"more-than-human-histories-of-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-decentring-the-human-in-environmental-history-9781915249500","title":"More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean: Decentring the Human in Environmental History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Diogo de Carvalho Cabral | André Vasques Vital | Margarita Gascón\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of London Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of London Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical Geography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of London Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47888287400087,"sku":"9781915249500","price":11452.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781915249500.webp?v=1781164899","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/more-than-human-histories-of-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-decentring-the-human-in-environmental-history-9781915249500","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}