Thomas Klubock

This project traces the history of Chile’s southern rain forests over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first environmental history of Chile and the first history of the world’s largest temperate rainforest, this study brings together the long-ignored relation between nature, culture, and society in the history of modern Chile. It links changes in rural land, labor, ethnic, and gender relations to changes in Chile’s native rain forests by combining the methodologies of social history with environmental history’s interest in ecological change.