Stuart Mccook
Biographic Data
| ID | 655435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Mccook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccook |
| SIGNATURE | MCCOOK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4489-1728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World
Prodigality and Sustainability: The Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development
The Neo-Columbian Exchange: The Second Conquest of the Greater Caribbean, 1720-1930
The landscapes of the Greater Caribbean have been undergoing a process of ecological globalization since the arrival of European explorers and settlers in the late fifteenth century. The character of this ecological globalization has changed over time. Models of commodity-led economic development drove, directly or indirectly, the neo-Columbian exchanges of the long nineteenth century (roughly 1720-1930). The neo-Columbian exchanges differed from…
Una historia ambiental del café en Guatemala: La Costa Cuca entre 1830 y 1902
Latin American historians have devoted considerable attention to the study of the region’s coffee industries, although few of them have dwelt on coffee’s rich environmental history. Stefania Gallini’s new Historia ambiental del café en Guatemala focuses particularly on coffee’s environmental history. Like other classic coffee histories, such as Stanley Stein’s Vassouras, Gallini has written a fine-grained analysis of one coffee region, with an ey…
An Environmental History of Latin America
Over the past several decades, the environmental history of Latin America has emerged as a vibrant field. Historians have produced innovative studies exploring nature’s central role in Latin American history. Most of these studies, however, are local or regional in scope. Miller’s Environmental History of Latin America is an excellent synthesis of the literature, inflected by his own original and thoughtful analytical voice.Miller traces the envi…
Coffee and Flowers: Recent Research on Commodity Chains, Neoliberalism, and Alternative Trade in Latin America
Coffee and FlowersRecent Research on Commodity Chains, Neoliberalism, and Alternative Trade in Latin America Stuart McCook (bio) Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. By Gavin Fridell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. 347. $50.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival. By Daniel Jaffee. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 331. $5…
Crônica de uma praga anunciada epidemias agrícolas e história ambiental do café nas Américas
As epidemias agrícolas fornecem um ponto de vista privilegiado para a história ambiental global e transnacional de commodities. A epidemia da ferrugem, causada pelo fungo Hemileia nastatrix, é uma das mais sérias doenças que têm atingido a indústria global de café. No século XIX, ela devastou as plantações de café no Velho Mundo. Também reduziu agudamente a produção de café do tipo arábica na África, Ásia e no Pacífico. Esse foi um dos fatores qu…
Global rust belt: Hemileia vastatrix and the ecological integration of world coffee production since 1850
The quantitative growth of coffee production and consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries produced qualitative transformations along every step of the coffee commodity chain. The economic integration of the global coffee market in this period triggered major east-west biological exchanges between the world's coffee regions. The global epidemic of coffee leaf rust, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix , illustrates the ecological a…
The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons , by Paul Trawick
Plantas, petróleo, y progreso: Las ciencias agrícolas y las ideologías de desarrollo en la época de Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935
La historia de la investigación agrícola en América Latina nos puede ofrecer una vista nueva de la historia de las ideologías de desarrollo en la época liberal. Buscando “orden y progreso”, las elites liberales de América Latina querrían racionalizar la vida política, social y económica nacional. En la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos, la agricultura tenía un papel importante en los proyectos de desarrollo nacional. Las elites liberales seg…
Marcos Jiménez de la Espada (1831-1898): Tras la senda de un explorador
Marcos Jiménez de la Espada was a nineteenth-century Spanish naturalist who travelled to Latin America in the 1860s as part of the Comisión Científica del Pacífico, a scientific expedition organized by the Museo de las Ciencias Naturales de Madrid. The expedition, which accompanied a far more controversial Spanish naval expedition, made the circuit of Central and South America. Jiménez de la Espada was a polymathic naturalist in the tradition of …
To Defend our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla , by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
"To Defend our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla, by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera." Canadian Journal of History, 37(1), pp. 191–192
Giving Plants a Civil Status’: Scientific Representations of Nature and Nation in Costa Rica and Venezuela, 1885-1935
In a 1924 essay, the botanist Henri Pittier worried that many of Latin America's tropical products—particularly its plants—lacked a ‘civil status.’ By this, Pittier meant that they had not yet been identified and named scientifically. He likened the plants’ lack of a botanical ‘civil status’ to a person's lacking a passport or credentials that proved their citizenship. This was more than a casual analogy. Over the previous half-century, many stat…
"Promoting the "Practical: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920-1940
De 1870 a 1930, les compagnies d'Amerique Latine ont connu une expansion economique rapide due a l'exportation de leur production agricole. Cette hausse des exportations eut des repercussions sur les ecosystemes en milieu tropical. Une baisse de la productivite s'en suivit ainsi que des problemes d'ordre ecologique ce qui necessita une modernisation rapide du secteur agricole dans ces pays
Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920–1940
Research Article| January 01 2001 Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920–1940 Stuart McCook Stuart McCook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 52–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.1.52 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stuart McCook; Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural …
La modernizacion dificil: Henri Pittier en Venezuela, 1920-1950 . Yolanda Texera Arnal
The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica
The history of conservation in Latin America offers insights into the dramatic environmental transformations the region has undergone, particularly in the twentieth century. Sterling Evans’s Green Republic explores the history of conservation in Costa Rica, with an emphasis on environmental policy. While journalists, policymakers, and others have pointed to Costa Rica as a model of conservation policy, Evans questions whether it is appropriate to…
It May Be Truth, but It Is Not Evidence: Paul du Chaillu and the Legitimation of Evidence in the Field Sciences
1861, gorillas had captivated the public imagination in England.The recent publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species had fueled the ongoing debate about the place of humans in nature.A key piece of evidence in the debate was the recently discovered gorilla.In the pages of learned journals and in the more popular Athenaeum, Richard Owen and Thomas Henry Huxley debated the significance of gorilla skeletons recently brought to England.They ba…
It May Be Truth, but It Is Not Evidence: Paul du Chaillu and the Legitimation of Evidence in the Field Sciences
1861, gorillas had captivated the public imagination in England.The recent publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species had fueled the ongoing debate about the place of humans in nature.A key piece of evidence in the debate was the recently discovered gorilla.In the pages of learned journals and in the more popular Athenaeum, Richard Owen and Thomas Henry Huxley debated the significance of gorilla skeletons recently brought to England.They ba…
Global rust belt: Hemileia vastatrix and the ecological integration of world coffee production since 1850
The quantitative growth of coffee production and consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries produced qualitative transformations along every step of the coffee commodity chain. The economic integration of the global coffee market in this period triggered major east-west biological exchanges between the world's coffee regions. The global epidemic of coffee leaf rust, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix , illustrates the ecological a…
"Promoting the "Practical: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920-1940
De 1870 a 1930, les compagnies d'Amerique Latine ont connu une expansion economique rapide due a l'exportation de leur production agricole. Cette hausse des exportations eut des repercussions sur les ecosystemes en milieu tropical. Une baisse de la productivite s'en suivit ainsi que des problemes d'ordre ecologique ce qui necessita une modernisation rapide du secteur agricole dans ces pays
Crônica de uma praga anunciada epidemias agrícolas e história ambiental do café nas Américas
As epidemias agrícolas fornecem um ponto de vista privilegiado para a história ambiental global e transnacional de commodities. A epidemia da ferrugem, causada pelo fungo Hemileia nastatrix, é uma das mais sérias doenças que têm atingido a indústria global de café. No século XIX, ela devastou as plantações de café no Velho Mundo. Também reduziu agudamente a produção de café do tipo arábica na África, Ásia e no Pacífico. Esse foi um dos fatores qu…
Giving Plants a Civil Status’: Scientific Representations of Nature and Nation in Costa Rica and Venezuela, 1885-1935
In a 1924 essay, the botanist Henri Pittier worried that many of Latin America's tropical products—particularly its plants—lacked a ‘civil status.’ By this, Pittier meant that they had not yet been identified and named scientifically. He likened the plants’ lack of a botanical ‘civil status’ to a person's lacking a passport or credentials that proved their citizenship. This was more than a casual analogy. Over the previous half-century, many stat…
Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920–1940
Research Article| January 01 2001 Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920–1940 Stuart McCook Stuart McCook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 52–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.1.52 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stuart McCook; Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural …
It May Be Truth, but It Is Not Evidence: Paul du Chaillu and the Legitimation of Evidence in the Field Sciences
1861, gorillas had captivated the public imagination in England.The recent publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species had fueled the ongoing debate about the place of humans in nature.A key piece of evidence in the debate was the recently discovered gorilla.In the pages of learned journals and in the more popular Athenaeum, Richard Owen and Thomas Henry Huxley debated the significance of gorilla skeletons recently brought to England.They ba…
La modernizacion dificil: Henri Pittier en Venezuela, 1920-1950 . Yolanda Texera Arnal
The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica
The history of conservation in Latin America offers insights into the dramatic environmental transformations the region has undergone, particularly in the twentieth century. Sterling Evans’s Green Republic explores the history of conservation in Costa Rica, with an emphasis on environmental policy. While journalists, policymakers, and others have pointed to Costa Rica as a model of conservation policy, Evans questions whether it is appropriate to…
"Promoting the "Practical: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920-1940
De 1870 a 1930, les compagnies d'Amerique Latine ont connu une expansion economique rapide due a l'exportation de leur production agricole. Cette hausse des exportations eut des repercussions sur les ecosystemes en milieu tropical. Une baisse de la productivite s'en suivit ainsi que des problemes d'ordre ecologique ce qui necessita une modernisation rapide du secteur agricole dans ces pays
Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920–1940
Research Article| January 01 2001 Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural Modernization in Puerto Rico and Colombia, 1920–1940 Stuart McCook Stuart McCook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2001) 75 (1): 52–82. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-75.1.52 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stuart McCook; Promoting the “Practical”: Science and Agricultural …
To Defend our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla , by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
"To Defend our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla, by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera." Canadian Journal of History, 37(1), pp. 191–192
Giving Plants a Civil Status’: Scientific Representations of Nature and Nation in Costa Rica and Venezuela, 1885-1935
In a 1924 essay, the botanist Henri Pittier worried that many of Latin America's tropical products—particularly its plants—lacked a ‘civil status.’ By this, Pittier meant that they had not yet been identified and named scientifically. He likened the plants’ lack of a botanical ‘civil status’ to a person's lacking a passport or credentials that proved their citizenship. This was more than a casual analogy. Over the previous half-century, many stat…
Plantas, petróleo, y progreso: Las ciencias agrícolas y las ideologías de desarrollo en la época de Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935
La historia de la investigación agrícola en América Latina nos puede ofrecer una vista nueva de la historia de las ideologías de desarrollo en la época liberal. Buscando “orden y progreso”, las elites liberales de América Latina querrían racionalizar la vida política, social y económica nacional. En la mayoría de los países latinoamericanos, la agricultura tenía un papel importante en los proyectos de desarrollo nacional. Las elites liberales seg…
Marcos Jiménez de la Espada (1831-1898): Tras la senda de un explorador
Marcos Jiménez de la Espada was a nineteenth-century Spanish naturalist who travelled to Latin America in the 1860s as part of the Comisión Científica del Pacífico, a scientific expedition organized by the Museo de las Ciencias Naturales de Madrid. The expedition, which accompanied a far more controversial Spanish naval expedition, made the circuit of Central and South America. Jiménez de la Espada was a polymathic naturalist in the tradition of …
The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons , by Paul Trawick
Global rust belt: Hemileia vastatrix and the ecological integration of world coffee production since 1850
The quantitative growth of coffee production and consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries produced qualitative transformations along every step of the coffee commodity chain. The economic integration of the global coffee market in this period triggered major east-west biological exchanges between the world's coffee regions. The global epidemic of coffee leaf rust, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix , illustrates the ecological a…
Coffee and Flowers: Recent Research on Commodity Chains, Neoliberalism, and Alternative Trade in Latin America
Coffee and FlowersRecent Research on Commodity Chains, Neoliberalism, and Alternative Trade in Latin America Stuart McCook (bio) Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. By Gavin Fridell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. 347. $50.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival. By Daniel Jaffee. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 331. $5…
Crônica de uma praga anunciada epidemias agrícolas e história ambiental do café nas Américas
As epidemias agrícolas fornecem um ponto de vista privilegiado para a história ambiental global e transnacional de commodities. A epidemia da ferrugem, causada pelo fungo Hemileia nastatrix, é uma das mais sérias doenças que têm atingido a indústria global de café. No século XIX, ela devastou as plantações de café no Velho Mundo. Também reduziu agudamente a produção de café do tipo arábica na África, Ásia e no Pacífico. Esse foi um dos fatores qu…
An Environmental History of Latin America
Over the past several decades, the environmental history of Latin America has emerged as a vibrant field. Historians have produced innovative studies exploring nature’s central role in Latin American history. Most of these studies, however, are local or regional in scope. Miller’s Environmental History of Latin America is an excellent synthesis of the literature, inflected by his own original and thoughtful analytical voice.Miller traces the envi…
The Neo-Columbian Exchange: The Second Conquest of the Greater Caribbean, 1720-1930
The landscapes of the Greater Caribbean have been undergoing a process of ecological globalization since the arrival of European explorers and settlers in the late fifteenth century. The character of this ecological globalization has changed over time. Models of commodity-led economic development drove, directly or indirectly, the neo-Columbian exchanges of the long nineteenth century (roughly 1720-1930). The neo-Columbian exchanges differed from…
Una historia ambiental del café en Guatemala: La Costa Cuca entre 1830 y 1902
Latin American historians have devoted considerable attention to the study of the region’s coffee industries, although few of them have dwelt on coffee’s rich environmental history. Stefania Gallini’s new Historia ambiental del café en Guatemala focuses particularly on coffee’s environmental history. Like other classic coffee histories, such as Stanley Stein’s Vassouras, Gallini has written a fine-grained analysis of one coffee region, with an ey…
Prodigality and Sustainability: The Environmental Sciences and the Quest for Development
The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World
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