Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands

Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics 9781477311158

Brazil has the second-largest cattle herd in the world and is a major exporter of beef. While ranching in the Amazon—and

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The Inland Seas: Towards an Ecohistory of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 3515114394, 9783515114394

The shores of the Mediterranean-Black Sea basin were home to some of the earliest urban communities and some of the earl

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Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire 9781501728990

Rarely recognized outside its boundaries today, the Pacific Northwest region known at the turn of the century as the Inl

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Battling the Inland Sea [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520921214

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regul

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Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat 9781350224193, 9781786991591, 9781786991584

Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book Prize The Zika virus is devastating lives and communities. Children across the Americas a

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Environmental Jurisdiction in the Law of the Sea: The Brazilian Blue Amazon [1st ed.] 9783030505424, 9783030505431

This book assesses the environmental jurisdiction of coastal states over the seabed within and beyond 200 nautical miles

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The Politics of Misinformation

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With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire 9780801455087

Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant mari

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Across an Inland Sea: Writing in Place from Buffalo to Berlin 9780691227573, 0691113653, 2002031744

How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations

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Elephant Seals: Pushing the Limits on Land and at Sea 9781316511541, 9781009052085, 2021017370, 2021017371, 9781009055031, 1316511545

How did the elephant seal survive being driven to the brink of extinction in the nineteenth century? What variables dete

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