This course is a seminar organized around questions of human and environmental change in Latin America. We move from pre-Columbian civilizations through time to the present to consider the ways people in Latin America have approached nature conservation. This environmental history approach provides a glimpse of the general chronology of historical events including civilizations, colonialisms, and independence. We also examine the rise in understanding about nature conservation, notions of wilderness, and park concepts.
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- Precolonial
- Conquest/Early Colonial
- Late colonial/Independence Era
- Nineteenth Century
- Twentieth Century
- Twenty-First Century/Contemporary