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“thomas d rogers”

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  • Ethanol

    A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels

    by Jeffrey T. Manuel, Thomas D. Rogers ...
    Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon or boondoggle?—its use goes back more than a century. Tracing the little-known history of this promising and contentious fuel, Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels reveals the transnational nature of ethanol's development by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Entangled Labor Histories of Brazil and the United States

    by Fernando Teixeira da Silva, Alexandre Fortes, Thomas D. Rogers, Gillian McGillivray, Larissa Rosa Corrêa, Jerry Dávila, Glaucia Cristina Candian Fraccaro0, Michael M. Hall1, Rebecca Herman2, Barbara Weinstein3 ...
    Workers in Brazil and the United States have followed parallel and entangled histories for many centuries. Recent experiences with progressive, popular presidents and authoritarian, populist presidents in the two most populous countries in the hemisphere have underscored important similarities. The contributors in this volume focus on the comparative and transnational histories of labor between ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Agriculture's Energy

    The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution

    by Thomas D. Rogers ...
    Thomas D. Rogers’s history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program,created in the 1970s by the nation’s military regime, aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country’s economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proálcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and reduce gasoline ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Deepest Wounds

    A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil

    by Thomas D. Rogers ...
    In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil’s key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming — the complex, fraught, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Sweet Fuel

    A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol

    by Jennifer Eaglin ...
    As the hazards of carbon emissions increase and governments around the world seek to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, the search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. However, one nation has already been producing such a fuel for almost a century: Brazil. Its sugarcane-based ethanol is the most efficient biofuel on the global ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Watering the Revolution

    An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

    by Mikael D. Wolfe ...
    In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Extraction

    The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

    by Thea Riofrancos ...
    **"Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.…An immense contribution." —Naomi KleinAn in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental, social, and political consequences of the mining it requires.**Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Latin America at 200

    A New Introduction

    by Phillip Berryman ...
    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    Between 2010 and 2025, most of the countries of Latin America will commemorate two centuries of independence, and Latin Americans have much to celebrate at this milestone. Most countries have enjoyed periods of sustained growth, while inequality is showing modest declines and the middle class is expanding. Dictatorships have been left behind, and all major political actors seem to have accepted ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Brazil Is the New America

    How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World

    by James Dale Davidson ...
    Look to Brazil for safe, stable investmentsAs the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? In Brazil is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World, James D. Davidson shows ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Dancing with Dynamite

    Social Movements and States in Latin America

    by Benjamin Dangl ...
    Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and "the streets" remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Silver to Cocaine

    Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Pitfall

    The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places

    by Christopher Pollon ...
    Series series “An important account”—Bill McKibben
    A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.A race is on to exploit the last bonanzas of gold, silver, and industrial metals left on Earth. These metals are not only essential for all material comfort and need, but for the transition to clean energy: in the coming ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus