In Review
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe 900-1900 by Alfred W. Crosby, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 368 pp., $34.50 (cloth), $12.95 (paper). For the past thousand...
...Although Peru's internally displaced remain in the country, they cross invisible borders marked by race, culture and language...
...Rainforest Action Network (301 Broadway, Suite A, San Francisco, CA 94133), 85 pp., $8.50 (paper...
...State of the World 1991 by Lester R. Brown et al, W.W...
...Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions by John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman, University of Texas Press, 1990, 252, $27.50 (cloth), $12.95 (paper...
...Large areas of the southern Andes are now completely abandoned, while Lima and other cities overflow with refugees...
...This research report documents the drama of their exodus, largely ignored by the world...
...The quantity of information is matched only by the author's ability to make sense of it...
...The spellbinding story of how and why these lands became "Neo-Europes" takes us back to the break-up of the original continent, Panagea, and up through the Viking voyages and Columbus to the present...
...Amazonia: Voices From the Rainforest by Angela Gennino (ed...
...The Worldwatch Institute's annual reports on the environmental health of the planet are excellentresources, brimming with data, analysis and practical answers to the world's pressing problems...
...It examines Central American literary currents as products and agents of the region's revolutionary movements...
...The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492 by David Watts, Cambridge University Press, 1987,609 pp., $59.50 (cloth), $24.95 (paper...
...Also covered is the development of the testimonial narrative as an influential prose genre associated with revolution...
...scientists turned Mexico into a laboratory for pesticide experimentation...
...Detailed attention is given to poets Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua, Roque Dalton of El Salvador and Otto Ren6 Castillo of Guatemala, as well as to the emergence of a powerful women's movement in poetry...
...Lyrical and imaginative...
...This eighth edition contains articles on the New World Order, sustainable energy, waste, urban transport, forestry, Eastern European and Soviet environmental problems, abortion, the military and the environment, consumerism, and the global economy...
...Ram6n Gonzilez, a Mixtec Indian from southern Mexico, was one of thousands of farmworkers who die each year from pesticide poisoning...
...Norton and Worldwatch Institute, 1991, 254 pp., $10.95 (paper...
...This book, based on several years of fieldwork in Mexico and the United States, examines the medical, environmental, social, and political consequences of massive pesticide use, and argues effectively for ecologically sustainable agricultural policies...
...Like Alfred Crosby, Watts manages to explain the interrelatedness of events with such clarity it makes one wonder why academic disciplines were invented in the first place...
...Box 4846, Chico, CA 95927), 1990, 243 pp., $14.95 (paper...
...and Marcia, who resides in a small, mystical town in Mallorca...
...The Death of Ram6n Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma by Angus Wright, University of Texas Press, 1990, 337 pp., $29.95 (cloth...
...An excellent resource guide which lists the names and addresses of over 100 organizations in Latin America, the United States, and Europe concerned with the ecology of the Amazon...
...Committee for Refugees (1025 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 920, Washington, DC 20005), 1 9 9 1, 40 pp., $ 4 .00 (paper...
...The Decade of Chaqwa: Peru's Internal Refugees by Robin Kirk, U.S...
...A new work by one of Central America's foremost writers, Family Album is a collection of three novellas that weave the life histories of three women: Karen, a "corrupted" Catholic schoolgirl...
...Since 1942, the "Green Revolution" devised by U.S...
...Family Album by Claribel Alegrfa, Curbstone Press, 1991, 192 pp., $22.95 (cloth), $10.95 (paper...
...A marvelous work of scholarship that brings together the insights of several disciplines...
...And the history of rubber is a story of political intrigue, passionate scientific inquiry and economic power...
...Warren Dean spins a good tale and draws some insightful conclusions about the limits of human ability to manipulate the environment...
...In this now classic account of the bio-history of the meeting of two worlds, he demonstrates that the most astounding far-reaching effects of Columbus' feat were in fact biological: the spread of Old World plants, animals and microbes in the New World...
...At least 200,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Peru's emergency zones, fleeing the decadelong war between the security forces and Shining Path guerrillas...
...This mammoth undertaking, drawing on history, geography, economics, biology and literature, paints a remarkably detailed picture of the Caribbean since Columbus...
...This scholarly and innovative book bridges the gap between the social sciences and literary criticism...
...Crosby's canvas is vast...
...Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber: A Study in Environmental History by Warren Dean, Cambridge University Press, 1987,234 pp., $34.50 (cloth...
...As its title implies, this is a tourist manual for the Bohemian traveller and solidarity set...
...For the past thousand years, and especially since 1492, the temperate zones of the Americas (north of Mexico and south of the Tropic of Capricorn), as well as Australia and New Zealand, have become remarkably like Europe in their flora and fauna...
...It contains useful tips, a brief history of each region and town, some humor and more than a little nostalgia...
...Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., Greenwood Press, 1972, 268 pp., $39.95 (cloth), $8.95 (paper...
...Until recently, the history of the Amazon was intricately tied up with rubber...
...Not Just Another Nicaragua Travel Guide by Alan Hulme, Steve Krekel and Shannon O'Reilly, Mango Publications (P.O...
...Ximena, a Nicaraguan woman living in Paris who is drawn into the 1979 revolution...
Vol. 25 • August 1991 • No. 2
