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Frederico Freitas

Historian of Latin America

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Nationalizing Nature

November 4, 2020 by fredericofreitas

Nationalizing Nature is my first monograph, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press as part of their Latin American Studies Series. The book demonstrates how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas, casting light on conservation’s crucial role in the territorial growth of the region. In the process, a distinct national park model–combining the preservation of nature and settler colonization–is highlighted. From the press: “Today, one-quarter of all the land in Latin America is set […]

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Nationalizing Nature – Book Talk

October 6, 2020 by fredericofreitas

In this video I talk about my upcoming book, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. The book was written with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The book will be out in May 2021, with Cambridge University Press.

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Landscape Change in Brasília

August 21, 2020 by fredericofreitas

Landscape change in Brazil’s new capital, 1970s-2010s This is a preliminary study carried out with the help of Samuel Franklin on land cover change in Brasília and its Federal District (DF) between the 1970s and 2010s. The DF is a territory of 2228 square miles carved out of the neighboring state of Goiás in 1959 when Brasília was built. Similar to the Federal District in Mexico and the District of Columbia in the United States, the Brazilian DF was created […]

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The Making of a Forest

May 24, 2018 by fredericofreitas

Landscape change at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1953-2017 This series of interactive maps are a sequel to the ones I launched in 2014.  They show deforestation and reforestation in national parks at the border between Brazil and Argentina, between the 1950s and the 2010s. They use as source aerial imagery unearthed from Brazilian archives and historical satellite pictures, including some from US spy satellites from the 1960s. The visualizations show the impressive environmental change occurring in almost seven decades, when this […]

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Big Water

November 20, 2017 by fredericofreitas

Big Water is a book I edited with Jacob Blanc and published through University of Arizona Press in 2018. It is a book that focus on a overlooked Latin-American borderland, the Triple Frontier area between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. From the press: “Big Water explores four centuries of the overlapping histories of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (the Triple Frontier), and the colonies that preceded them. Examining an important area that includes some of the first national parks established in Latin […]

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Academic Posters

May 4, 2015 by fredericofreitas

Here are some academic posters I have made for events at Stanford.

Categories: Graphic Design, History • Tags: Brazil, History, Literature

Boundaries of Nature

September 24, 2014 by fredericofreitas

Landscape Change in Southern Brazil, from 1953 to the Present DaySixty years of landscape change in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil The Iguaçu National Park was created between 1939 and 1944 by the Brazilian national government at the border with Argentina. The creation of the park was disputed by the local state government, which, in the late 1950s, started to settle hundreds of families of Brazilians farmers inside park area. This later resulted in a conflicted process of removal and […]

Categories: History • Tags: Animation, Argentina, Deforestation, Graphic Design, History, Land Use, National Park, Visualization

Rivers and Whirlpools

December 5, 2011 by fredericofreitas

Rivers and Whirlpools: a spatial and historical interpretation of La Vorágine The initial scene of the 1972 film, Aguirre, the Wrath of Good, depicts a sixteenth-century expedition descending from the Andeans highlands into the Amazonian lowlands. The expedition led by Francisco Pizarro is in search of the mythical city of El Dorado. The movie, directed by Werner Herzog, is a hodge-podge of different exploratory travels of sixteenth-century conquistadores, from Francisco de Orellana’s upriver Amazonian voyage to Lope de Aguirre’s downriver […]

Categories: History • Tags: Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Eustasio Rivera, History, La Vorágine, Literature, Spatial History, The Vortex

Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil — 1753-1840

November 18, 2011 by fredericofreitas

Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil — 1753-1840[1] This article analyzes the pressure of farming on tropical forests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazil. Making use of GIS technology, it was possible to create a map for the South Central of the Minas Gerais province and geocode historical data for agriculture and livestock production. We have found an association between corn and swine production in areas of forest, and we suggest a correlation of the practices of slash-and-burn agriculture, pig […]

Categories: History • Tags: 18 Century, 19th Century, Deforestation, History, Land Use, Minas Gerais

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I am a historian and associate professor of digital and Latin American history at North Carolina State University.

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