Author: Coates, Anthony George; editor:
Title: Central America: A Natural and Cultural History
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1997). orig.boards. 24x15cm, xvi,277 pp. Textual maps & photo illus.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contains 9 papers. Includes: A.G. Coates "The Forging of Central America"; J.B.C. Jackson & L. D'Croz "The Ocean Divided"; D.R. Wallace "Central American Landscapes"; S.D. Webb "The Great American Faunal Interchange"; P.Colinvaux "The History of Forests on the Isthmus from the Ice Age to the Present"; R. Cooke "The Native Peoples of Central America during Precolumbian & Colonial Times"; S. Heckadon-Moreno "Spanish Rule, Independence & the Modern Colonization Frontiers"; P.H. Herlihy "Central American Indian Peoples and Lands Today"; J. Illueca "The Paseo Pantera Agenda for Regional Conservation".

Keywords: Central America, Natural History, Paeso Pantera, Environmental, Ethnic Ethnology, Ethnography Ecology, Ethnohistory, Anthropology, Native Americans