International Social Science Journal (Chinese Edition)

No.4, 2023

 

The Two-Faced Jungle: Tropical Rainforests in 19th- and 20th-Century Latin America

(Abstract)

 

Claudia Leal

 

Tropical rainforests occupy a sizable portion of Latin America, assuming some of the most vital functions in the planet’s ecology. Tropical rainforests also occupy an important place in our imagination. This article describes the history of the tropical rainforest, a precious and awe-inspiring biome, from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, and reviews advances in research on tropical rainforests in environmental history to date.