Olaf Kaltmeier is a professor of Iberoamerican history at Universität Bielefeld. Since its foundation in 2008, he has been the director of CALAS - Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is founding director and member of the Executive Board for the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld and director of the collaborative research project »Turning Land into Capital«.
María Fernanda López Sandoval is a senior lecturer at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador. She is a founding member of the Geographical Association of Ecuador. She is currently Academic Assistant Director of FLACSO, Ecuador and member of the scientific committee of CALAS, Andes.
José Augusto Pádua is a professor of Brazilian environmental history at the Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he is also coordinator of the Laboratory of History and Nature. From 2010 to 2015, he was president of the Brazilian Association of Research and Graduate Studies on Environment and Society (ANPPAS). He was part of the creation team and the scientific board of the Museum of Tomorrow inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli is a professor and holds a PhD in history from the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. Investigator of the National Board of Scientific and Technical Investigation, he serves as associate professor at the National University of Quilmes and La Plata, Argentina.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 9
Academic Advisory Board 11
The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis 15
Introduction: Land Use in Colonial Latin America in the Anthropocene History 47
Land Use in the Southern Cone in the Colonial Period 55
Land Use in the Andes in the Colonial Period 77
Land Use in the Amazon in the Colonial Period 101
Land Use in Mesoamerica in the Colonial Period 123
Land Use in the Caribbean in the Colonial Period 157
Introduction: Land Use, Second Conquest, and the Anthropocene in Latin America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 179
Land Use in the Southern Cone from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 187
Land Use in the Andes from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 205
Land Use in the Amazon from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 231
Land Use in Mesoamerica from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 257
Land Use in the Caribbean from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 281
Introduction: Land Use in the Latin American Anthropocene from 1950 to the Present 301
Land Use in the Southern Cone from 1950 to the Present 307
Land Use in the Andes from 1950 to the Present 333
Land Use in the Amazon from 1950 to the Present 359
Land Use in Mesoamerica from 1950 to the Present 385
Land Use in the Caribbean from 1950 to the Present 407
Biographical Notes 433