Shawn William Miller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 683074 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shawn William Miller |
| PRENOMES | Shawn William |
| SOBRENOME | Miller |
| ASSINATURA | MILLER S W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9287-217X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Animals and Society in Brazil
When human numbers are the criteria, Brazil is the seventh-largest nation. But it would arguably be the world's most populous polity if we were to include nonhuman creatures in our official counts. With habitats spanning continental tropical forests, open highlands, and subtropical grasslands, Brazil is biodiverse and bio-profuse. Significantly, for five centuries chroniclers, travelers, and scientists placed Brazil's animal life very much at the…
Fuelwood in Colonial Brazil
This chapter provides a study of that resource’s depletion and of sugar production’s detrimental effect on Brazil’s Atlantic forest. Fuel’s increasing scarcity increased labor and capital costs related to fuel supply, exacerbated elite social conflict, multiplied petitions to the Crown, and eventually dictated the adoption of more efficient firing technology. The simple process of boiling the water and impurities from sugarcane’s viscid juice, an…
The Street Is Ours
The streets of Rio de Janeiro have long been characterized as exuberant and exotic places for social commerce, political expression, and the production and dissemination of culture. The Street is Ours examines the changing uses and meanings of Rio de Janeiro's streets and argues that the automobile, by literally occupying much of the street's space and by introducing death and injury on a new scale, significantly transformed the public commons. O…
Stuart B. Schwartz. Sea of Storms
Only in the last half century have humans been able to accurately forecast weather disasters. However, even without the somewhat vague precision of today’s weather satellites, peoples of the Greater Caribbean, since its initial human settlement, have dreaded the expected arrival of the hurricane, whose season commenced with summer and remained a threat often until Christmas. Among both indigenous and colonial societies, the time of the summer sol…
Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici, editors. Centering Animals in Latin American History
Minding the Gap
The Pan-American Highway, proposed in 1923, was Pan-Americanism's most publicized idea, and the dream of a hemispheric highway inspired automotive adventurers from Canada to Argentina to attempt—and largely fail—to drive off-road from one American continent to the other. Despite a fifty-year consensus about the proposed highway's economic, cultural, and diplomatic benefits and even with the considerable momentum of automotive civilization behind …
Nicholas A. Robins. Mercury, Mining, and Empire
To the alchemists, mercury was the materia prima from which all metals might be derived. Although ultimately disappointed in efforts to transmute base metals into gold, Europe's late medieval proto-chemists did discover that quicksilver's affinity for both gold and silver was sufficiently strong that it could be used to recover the precious metals embedded in rock. The discovery was timely. In merely twenty years of silver mining at Potosi, Boliv…
An Environmental History of Latin America
A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populat…
Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico
Book Review| October 01 2006 Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico. By E. N. Anderson and Felix Medina Tzuc. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xviii + 251 pp., preface, appendixes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth.) Shawn William Miller Shawn William Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 784–785. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-033…
Stilt-Root Subsistence
In 1677, the Jesuit prelate in Rio de Janeiro, Father Silveira Dias, summarily excommunicated every distinguished member of the city’s municipal council. Although priests frequently quarreled with local officials over such issues as control of indigenous labor, marching order in annual processions, or the extent of clerical exemption from municipal taxation, only in the most extreme scuffles did clerics make heretics of the local elite. In this c…
Fruitless Trees
Introduction 1. The colonial landscape: timber, forests, and soils 2. Forest policy with Portuguese roots 3. Brazil's timber in the Atlantic basin 4. The tropical woodsman 5. Ax, ox, and sawmill: techniques and technology 6. Cabotage and transatlantic shipping 7. Shipbuilding and tropical timber Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index
Fruitless Trees
For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber. The forests have always been Brazil's most striking natural resource, and the Portuguese colonists anticipated enormous returns …
Fruitless Trees
For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber. The forests have always been Brazil's most striking natural resource, and the Portuguese colonists anticipated enormous returns …
Fruitless Trees
Introduction 1. The colonial landscape: timber, forests, and soils 2. Forest policy with Portuguese roots 3. Brazil's timber in the Atlantic basin 4. The tropical woodsman 5. Ax, ox, and sawmill: techniques and technology 6. Cabotage and transatlantic shipping 7. Shipbuilding and tropical timber Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index
Minding the Gap
The Pan-American Highway, proposed in 1923, was Pan-Americanism's most publicized idea, and the dream of a hemispheric highway inspired automotive adventurers from Canada to Argentina to attempt—and largely fail—to drive off-road from one American continent to the other. Despite a fifty-year consensus about the proposed highway's economic, cultural, and diplomatic benefits and even with the considerable momentum of automotive civilization behind …
Stilt-Root Subsistence
In 1677, the Jesuit prelate in Rio de Janeiro, Father Silveira Dias, summarily excommunicated every distinguished member of the city’s municipal council. Although priests frequently quarreled with local officials over such issues as control of indigenous labor, marching order in annual processions, or the extent of clerical exemption from municipal taxation, only in the most extreme scuffles did clerics make heretics of the local elite. In this c…
The Street Is Ours
The streets of Rio de Janeiro have long been characterized as exuberant and exotic places for social commerce, political expression, and the production and dissemination of culture. The Street is Ours examines the changing uses and meanings of Rio de Janeiro's streets and argues that the automobile, by literally occupying much of the street's space and by introducing death and injury on a new scale, significantly transformed the public commons. O…
Fruitless Trees
For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber. The forests have always been Brazil's most striking natural resource, and the Portuguese colonists anticipated enormous returns …
Fruitless Trees
Introduction 1. The colonial landscape: timber, forests, and soils 2. Forest policy with Portuguese roots 3. Brazil's timber in the Atlantic basin 4. The tropical woodsman 5. Ax, ox, and sawmill: techniques and technology 6. Cabotage and transatlantic shipping 7. Shipbuilding and tropical timber Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index
Stilt-Root Subsistence
In 1677, the Jesuit prelate in Rio de Janeiro, Father Silveira Dias, summarily excommunicated every distinguished member of the city’s municipal council. Although priests frequently quarreled with local officials over such issues as control of indigenous labor, marching order in annual processions, or the extent of clerical exemption from municipal taxation, only in the most extreme scuffles did clerics make heretics of the local elite. In this c…
Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico
Book Review| October 01 2006 Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico. By E. N. Anderson and Felix Medina Tzuc. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xviii + 251 pp., preface, appendixes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth.) Shawn William Miller Shawn William Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (4): 784–785. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-033…
An Environmental History of Latin America
A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Human attitudes, populat…
Nicholas A. Robins. Mercury, Mining, and Empire
To the alchemists, mercury was the materia prima from which all metals might be derived. Although ultimately disappointed in efforts to transmute base metals into gold, Europe's late medieval proto-chemists did discover that quicksilver's affinity for both gold and silver was sufficiently strong that it could be used to recover the precious metals embedded in rock. The discovery was timely. In merely twenty years of silver mining at Potosi, Boliv…
Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici, editors. Centering Animals in Latin American History
Minding the Gap
The Pan-American Highway, proposed in 1923, was Pan-Americanism's most publicized idea, and the dream of a hemispheric highway inspired automotive adventurers from Canada to Argentina to attempt—and largely fail—to drive off-road from one American continent to the other. Despite a fifty-year consensus about the proposed highway's economic, cultural, and diplomatic benefits and even with the considerable momentum of automotive civilization behind …
Stuart B. Schwartz. Sea of Storms
Only in the last half century have humans been able to accurately forecast weather disasters. However, even without the somewhat vague precision of today’s weather satellites, peoples of the Greater Caribbean, since its initial human settlement, have dreaded the expected arrival of the hurricane, whose season commenced with summer and remained a threat often until Christmas. Among both indigenous and colonial societies, the time of the summer sol…
The Street Is Ours
The streets of Rio de Janeiro have long been characterized as exuberant and exotic places for social commerce, political expression, and the production and dissemination of culture. The Street is Ours examines the changing uses and meanings of Rio de Janeiro's streets and argues that the automobile, by literally occupying much of the street's space and by introducing death and injury on a new scale, significantly transformed the public commons. O…
Fuelwood in Colonial Brazil
This chapter provides a study of that resource’s depletion and of sugar production’s detrimental effect on Brazil’s Atlantic forest. Fuel’s increasing scarcity increased labor and capital costs related to fuel supply, exacerbated elite social conflict, multiplied petitions to the Crown, and eventually dictated the adoption of more efficient firing technology. The simple process of boiling the water and impurities from sugarcane’s viscid juice, an…
Animals and Society in Brazil
When human numbers are the criteria, Brazil is the seventh-largest nation. But it would arguably be the world's most populous polity if we were to include nonhuman creatures in our official counts. With habitats spanning continental tropical forests, open highlands, and subtropical grasslands, Brazil is biodiverse and bio-profuse. Significantly, for five centuries chroniclers, travelers, and scientists placed Brazil's animal life very much at the…
Archaeology (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · Colonialism (6 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · History of Colonial Brazil (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Art history (3 obras) · Ecology (3 obras)