community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Oil and Environment in Mexico
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online August 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Latin American History; Environmental History; International History; History of Science and Technology; Labour History. 10612 words.
Before there was Mexico, there was oil. Millennia of organic matter that collapsed and liquefied into fossil fuel rested deep underground and underwater along the half-moon territorial...
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The Spanish Caribbean, 1492–1550
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online July 2018 .
Article. Subjects: Caribbean History; Latin American History; Medieval and Renaissance History (500 to 1500); Labour History. 8956 words.
The arrival of Christopher Columbus in the northern Caribbean with three Spanish ships in October 1492 marked the beginning of continuing European contact with the Americas. With his second...
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