The commodity-driven settlement of a vast and sparsely populated territory with a commodity-based economic model is a window to the ways in which South Americans both changed and were changed by the environment. The purpose of this course is to use key commodities and natural resources as a lens to understand the relationship between South American societies and their natural environments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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- Conquest/Early Colonial
- Late colonial/Independence Era
- Nineteenth Century
- Twentieth Century
- Twenty-First Century/Contemporary