Ortega Santos, Antonio. “Agroecosystem, Peasants, and Conflicts: Environmental History in Spain at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century.” Global Environment 4 (2009): 156–79.
This article proposes to examine the origin, development, and future of environmental history in Spanish historiography. It will focus on the increasing number of workgroups that have broken the mode of conventional methodology and opened themselves up to the influences of historiographies of other, non-European realities. The case of Belo Horizonte exemplifies how studies of this theme must necessarily take into account the political and historical peculiarities of Latin American societies, and how these societies are enmeshed in transnational networks whose political and social significance is manifested in phenomena such as the acclimatization of ficus trees, the introduction of sparrows, and the attack of thrips. (Text adapted from the author’s abstract.)
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