John Soluri
Biographic Data
| ID | 515350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Soluri |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Soluri |
| SIGNATURE | SOLURI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-2898-8091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Moderating Force: Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia
S ocial D rinking: Mate, Guaraná, and Coffee Consumption in the Americas
T he five books that inform this essay examine how drinks-coffee, guaran, and mate-helped to "shape," "transform," or "define" national identities even as the plant-derived beverages spilled across geopolitical boundaries.All three are sourced from tropical/subtropical "woody" plants (i.e., bushes or trees) whose biological origins lay in forested ecosystems.Their cultural origins lay in stories involving people, animals, and spirits.In between h…
Reproducing Animals in Latin America
This article explores the history of artificial insemination (AI) in order to suggest the value of writing histories of human intervention in animal reproduction in Latin America/Caribbean. Writing histories of how people have tried to direct animal reproduction is important for understanding changes in biological diversity and also for exploring intimate relations between people and animals beyond killing. Stories of human attempts to inseminate…
The Wild Side: Hunting Guanacos in Patagonia
This article examines the twentieth-century history of guanaco hunting in southern Patagonia in order to call attention to the significance of commercial hunting in the industrial age. Guanacos, an American camelid related to llamas, are the largest herbivore inhabiting the semi-arid steppe lands of Patagonia. In the nineteenth-century, indigenous Aónikenks traded quillangos, a cape-like garment made from the soft fur of juvenile guanacos, with c…
Introduction: New Geographies in Animal History
New Materialisms, Familiar Challenges
For some time now, scholars in the humanities have called for a more-than-human approach to analyzing and narrating the past. In recent years, research endeavors have mushroomed: scholars have considered the historical significance of everything from fungi to flies to copper filaments. To do so, they are drawing on theory and empirical findings from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. There is no shortage of neologisms, including New Mater…
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Time edited by Antoinette Burton and Renisa Mawani
The Conquest of the Desert: Argentina's Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History
This collection of essays explores a seminal event in Argentina's national imaginary—the Conquest of the Desert—whose meanings have been increasingly challenged in recent years by Mapuche activists and their allies. Consisting of an introduction and nine chapters written by scholars based in Argentina, Canada, and the United States, the volume disentangles “issues of nation, violence, memory, colonialism, and indigeneity” linked to a violent mili…
On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860–1930
A Living Past
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date synthe…
A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Home Cooking: Campesinos, Cuisine, and Agrodiversity
A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West. Connecting the Greater West Series. Edited by Sterling Evans
A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic
La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory
Labor, Rematerialized: Putting Environments to Work in the Americas
The late Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney began his posthumously published A History of the Guyanese Working People 1881–1905 (1981) by analyzing the “physical environment and class interests” in coastal Guyana. Writing against narratives that privileged the roles played by European capital and technology, Rodney argued that working people made large contributions to the “humanization” of the Guyanese environment. He noted …
On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860-1930
On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860–1930
Something Fishy: Chile's Blue Revolution, Commodity Diseases, and the Problem of Sustainability
The United Nations describes aquaculture as the fastest-growing method of food production, and some industry boosters have heralded the coming of a sustainable blue revolution. This article interprets the meteoric rise and sudden collapse of Atlantic salmon aquaculture in southern Chile (1980-2010) by integrating concepts from commodity studies and comparative environmental history. I juxtapose salmon aquaculture to twentieth-century export banan…
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (review)
Reviewed by: In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World John Soluri (bio) In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. By Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+280. $27.50. Some thirty-five years after Alfred Crosby called attention to the biological consequences of the “Columbian exchange,” the authors of this book docum…
Empire's Footprint: The Ecological Dimensions of a Consumers' Republic
Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico - by Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Consumo de massas, biodiversidade e fitomelhoramento da banana de exportação 1920 a 1980
A exportação de banana, na América, foi constituída sob uma base genética extremamente limitada: ao longo de setenta anos, uma só variedade de banana, a Gros Michel, foi praticamente a única a ser vendida nos mercados norte-americanos. Esta variedade produzia grandes cachos, resistentes ao transporte, e dotados de um sabor e de uma casca que os consumidores norte-americanos identificavam como pertencentes a uma banana de qualidade. Entretanto, a …
Accounting for Taste: Export Bananas, Mass Markets, and Panama Disease
People, Plants, and Pathogens: The Eco-social Dynamics of Export Banana Production in Honduras, 1875-1950
In July 1899, six municipal officials in El Paraíso, Honduras, placed their signatures on a document that listed the names of area residents who grew bananas for export. The municipal secretary, Bartolomé Bueso, signed with a heavy hand, perhaps an indication of the fatigue running through his fingers after recording more than two hundred names complete with several columns of statistics related to banana production. Similar scenes took place in …
Empire's Footprint: The Ecological Dimensions of a Consumers' Republic
The Conquest of the Desert: Argentina's Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History
This collection of essays explores a seminal event in Argentina's national imaginary—the Conquest of the Desert—whose meanings have been increasingly challenged in recent years by Mapuche activists and their allies. Consisting of an introduction and nine chapters written by scholars based in Argentina, Canada, and the United States, the volume disentangles “issues of nation, violence, memory, colonialism, and indigeneity” linked to a violent mili…
La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory
Labor, Rematerialized: Putting Environments to Work in the Americas
The late Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney began his posthumously published A History of the Guyanese Working People 1881–1905 (1981) by analyzing the “physical environment and class interests” in coastal Guyana. Writing against narratives that privileged the roles played by European capital and technology, Rodney argued that working people made large contributions to the “humanization” of the Guyanese environment. He noted …
People, Plants, and Pathogens: The Eco-social Dynamics of Export Banana Production in Honduras, 1875-1950
In July 1899, six municipal officials in El Paraíso, Honduras, placed their signatures on a document that listed the names of area residents who grew bananas for export. The municipal secretary, Bartolomé Bueso, signed with a heavy hand, perhaps an indication of the fatigue running through his fingers after recording more than two hundred names complete with several columns of statistics related to banana production. Similar scenes took place in …
Accounting for Taste: Export Bananas, Mass Markets, and Panama Disease
States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940 (review)
Historians seldom consider plants when thinking about technology and culture. Stuart McCook's States of Nature, which traces the rise and evolution of the plant sciences in Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, illustrates the value of integrating both plants and plant scientists into the histories of commodity production and state formation in the Spanish Caribbean. State building and export economies are perennial themes in La…
Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America (review)
Reviewed by: Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America John Soluri (bio) Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America. By J. Timmons Roberts and Nikki Demetria Thanos. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xvii+285. $29.95. Trouble in Paradise is an engaging survey of pressing environmental problems facing Latin America in the early twenty-first century. J. Timmons Roberts and…
What’s Next for Environmental History
Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value, and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico - by Elizabeth Emma Ferry
Consumo de massas, biodiversidade e fitomelhoramento da banana de exportação 1920 a 1980
A exportação de banana, na América, foi constituída sob uma base genética extremamente limitada: ao longo de setenta anos, uma só variedade de banana, a Gros Michel, foi praticamente a única a ser vendida nos mercados norte-americanos. Esta variedade produzia grandes cachos, resistentes ao transporte, e dotados de um sabor e de uma casca que os consumidores norte-americanos identificavam como pertencentes a uma banana de qualidade. Entretanto, a …
Something Fishy: Chile's Blue Revolution, Commodity Diseases, and the Problem of Sustainability
The United Nations describes aquaculture as the fastest-growing method of food production, and some industry boosters have heralded the coming of a sustainable blue revolution. This article interprets the meteoric rise and sudden collapse of Atlantic salmon aquaculture in southern Chile (1980-2010) by integrating concepts from commodity studies and comparative environmental history. I juxtapose salmon aquaculture to twentieth-century export banan…
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (review)
Reviewed by: In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World John Soluri (bio) In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. By Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+280. $27.50. Some thirty-five years after Alfred Crosby called attention to the biological consequences of the “Columbian exchange,” the authors of this book docum…
Empire's Footprint: The Ecological Dimensions of a Consumers' Republic
On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860-1930
On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860–1930
Labor, Rematerialized: Putting Environments to Work in the Americas
The late Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney began his posthumously published A History of the Guyanese Working People 1881–1905 (1981) by analyzing the “physical environment and class interests” in coastal Guyana. Writing against narratives that privileged the roles played by European capital and technology, Rodney argued that working people made large contributions to the “humanization” of the Guyanese environment. He noted …
La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory
A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic
A Living Past
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date synthe…
A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Home Cooking: Campesinos, Cuisine, and Agrodiversity
A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West. Connecting the Greater West Series. Edited by Sterling Evans
On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860–1930
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Time edited by Antoinette Burton and Renisa Mawani
The Conquest of the Desert: Argentina's Indigenous Peoples and the Battle for History
This collection of essays explores a seminal event in Argentina's national imaginary—the Conquest of the Desert—whose meanings have been increasingly challenged in recent years by Mapuche activists and their allies. Consisting of an introduction and nine chapters written by scholars based in Argentina, Canada, and the United States, the volume disentangles “issues of nation, violence, memory, colonialism, and indigeneity” linked to a violent mili…
New Materialisms, Familiar Challenges
For some time now, scholars in the humanities have called for a more-than-human approach to analyzing and narrating the past. In recent years, research endeavors have mushroomed: scholars have considered the historical significance of everything from fungi to flies to copper filaments. To do so, they are drawing on theory and empirical findings from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. There is no shortage of neologisms, including New Mater…
Geography (14 works) · History (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works)