Frederico Freitas

Also known as: Frederico Santos Soares de Freitas

Digital Humanities, Brazilian History, Latin American History, Environmental History

Works (44)

Updated: March 29th, 2024 07:20

2023 journal article

Characterizing the perception of urban spaces from visual analytics of street-level imagery

AI & SOCIETY, 38(4), 1361–1371.

By: F. Freitas n, T. Berreth*, Y. Chen n & A. Jhala n

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: Urban studies; Interactive analytics; Feature mapping; Machine learning; Computer vision; Streetscape photography; Geographic information systems
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: December 24, 2022

2023 article

The Trouble with Ethanol in Brazil's Green Revolution

Freitas, F., & Rogers, T. D. (2023, November 1). HAHR-HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 103, pp. 761–763.

By: F. Freitas n & T. Rogers

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: February 22, 2024

2023 article

Yerba Mate: The Drink That Shaped a Nation

Freitas, F., & Sarreal, J. J. S. (2023, October). AMERICAS, Vol. 80, pp. 643–644.

By: F. Freitas n & J. Sarreal

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: February 12, 2024

2022 book

CLAH. Brazilian Studies Section: The Politics of Environmental History in Brazil

Presented at the Conference on Latin American History.

By: T. Rogers, F. Freitas, L. Sedrez, S. Silva, J. Eaglin & E. Buckley

Event: Conference on Latin American History on February 26, 2022

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 31, 2023

2022 conference paper

Historical Remote Sensing: Case Studies in the Latin American Context

American Historical Association. Presented at the American Historical Association.

By: F. Freitas

Event: American Historical Association on February 22, 2022

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 31, 2023

2022 book review

Sarah T. Hines. Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. xviii + 321 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-38164-3.

[Review of]. H-Net. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57955

Contributors: F. Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: December 24, 2022

2021 journal article

Beyond the “Yellowstone Model:” The Origins of National Parks in Brazil and Argentina

Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC) Revista De La Solcha, 11(3), 400–410.

By: O. Kaltmeier* & F. Freitas n

co-author countries: Germany 🇩🇪 Mexico 🇲🇽 United States of America 🇺🇸
Sources: ORCID, Crossref
Added: June 26, 2022

2021 journal article

Blanc, Jacob (2019) Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil, Duke University Press (Durham, NC and London), xvi + 296 pp. $104.95 hbk. $27.95 pbk.

Bulletin of Latin American Research, 40(1), 150–152.

By: F. Freitas n

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, Crossref
Added: February 8, 2021

2021 journal article

Hunters, rangers, cougars, and jaguars: human and nonhuman territories at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1960s-1990s

HISTORIA CIENCIAS SAUDE-MANGUINHOS, 28, 59–79.

By: F. Freitas n

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
author keywords: big cats; animal history; national parks; conservation; borderlands
MeSH headings : Animals; Argentina; Brazil; Humans; Panthera; Puma
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: February 28, 2022

2021 article

Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present

Freitas, F. (2021, May). ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY, Vol. 27, pp. 323–325.

By: F. Freitas n

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: July 6, 2021

2021 monograph

Nationalizing Nature

By: F. Freitas n

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Source: Crossref
Added: January 22, 2022

2021 book

Nationalizing Nature

In Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/9781108844833

Frederico Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2021 encyclopedia entry

Protected Areas in Brazil: History and Current Status

In Oxford University Press.

Frederico Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2021 entry reference

Protected Environmental Areas across Brazil

By: F. Freitas*

Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: March 25, 2023

2021 chapter

Um Parque Para a Fronteira

In Â. M. Schmitt & M. D. Winter (Eds.), Fronteiras na História: Atores Sociais e Historicidade na Construção do Brasil Meridional (Séculos XVIII-XX) (pp. 233–264). Chapecó: Editora UFFS.

By: F. Freitas

Ed(s): Â. Schmitt & M. Winter

Event: at Chapecó

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2020 chapter

Conservation Frontier: The Creation of Protected Areas in Brazilian Amazonia

In A. A. R. Ioris, R. R. Ioris, & S. Shubin (Eds.), Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances. Lanham: Lexington Books.

By: F. Freitas

Ed(s): A. Ioris, R. Ioris & S. Shubin

Event: at Lanham

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2020 book

Frontiers of development in the Amazon: riches, risks, and resistances

Lanham Maryland: Lexington Books.

By: G. Azenha, F. de Castro, M. Colón, F. Freitas, M. Gebara, L. Holland, P. Little, J. de Oliveira, A. Schneider, T. Schor

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 31, 2023

2020 dataset

Land Use and Poaching Data for Iguazú and Iguaçu National Parks (Brazil and Argentina), 1953-2014

Zenodo.

Contributors: F. Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2020 report

Landscape Change in Brasília: Development and land use change in the Brazilian capital, from the 1970s to the present

[Website]. https://go.ncsu.edu/brasilia.landchange

By: F. Freitas & S. Franklin

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 31, 2023

2020 chapter

Structure of an interdisciplinary group project

In J. Olcott & L. Flores (Eds.), The Academic’s Handbook (4th ed., pp. 172–173). Durham: Duke University Press.

By: F. Freitas

Ed(s): J. Olcott & L. Flores

Event: at Durham

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2020 chapter

Terras públicas e política de conservação da natureza: o caos fundiário na formação do Parque Nacional do Iguaçu

In J. L. de A. Franco, S. D. e Silva, J. A. Drummond, & G. G. Tavares (Eds.), História Ambiental: Natureza, Sociedade, Fronteiras (Vol. 3, pp. 227–252). Rio de Janeiro: Garamond.

By: F. Freitas

Ed(s): J. Franco, S. Silva, J. Drummond & G. Tavares

Event: at Rio de Janeiro

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2019 journal article

Barandiaran, 'Science and Environment in Chile'

H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, 9(5), 8–11. https://networks.h-net.org/barandiaran-science-and-environment-chile-roundtable-review-vol-9-no-5-2019

By: F. Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2019 journal article

The South Atlantic Columbian exchange

Europe, 10, 1–12.

By: F. Freitas

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 31, 2023

2018 chapter

Argentinizing the Border: Conservation and Colonization in the Iguazú National Park, 1890s-1950s

In F. Freitas & J. Blanc (Eds.), Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (pp. 105–128). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

By: F. Freitas

Ed(s): F. Freitas & J. Blanc

Event: at Tucson, AZ

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2018 book

Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay

In J. Blanc & F. Freitas (Eds.), University of Arizona Press.

By: F. Freitas n

co-author countries: Russian Federation 🇷🇺 United States of America 🇺🇸

Ed(s): J. Blanc* & F. Freitas n

Sources: ORCID, Crossref
Added: June 26, 2022

2018 book

Big water: The making of the borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Frederico Freitas

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2018 chapter

Introduction

In F. Freitas & J. Blanc (Eds.), Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (pp. 2–21). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

By: F. Freitas & J. Blanc

Ed(s): F. Freitas & J. Blanc

Event: at Tucson, AZ

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2018 report

The Making of a Forest: landscape change at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1953-2017

[Website]. https://arcg.is/uquTq

By: F. Freitas, E. McNamar & J. Quist

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 31, 2023

2017 book review

Freitas on Nail, 'Theory of the Border'

[Review of Theory of the Border, by T. Nail]. H-Net Reviews.

By: F. Freitas

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: April 22, 2023

2017 chapter

Ordering the Borderland: Settlement and Removal in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil, 1940s-1970s

In C. Leal, E. Wakild, M. Kelly, & W. G. von Hardenberg (Eds.), The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation (pp. 158–175). Oxford: Routledge.

By: F. Freitas

Ed(s): C. Leal, E. Wakild, M. Kelly & W. Hardenberg

Event: at Oxford

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2017 article

Review of Nail, Thomas, Theory of the Border

Freitas, F. (2017, January). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=47697

By: F. Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2016 thesis

Boundaries of Nature: national parks and environmental change at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1890-1990

(PhD Dissertation). Stanford University.

By: F. Freitas

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: April 22, 2023

2016 chapter

Espaço, História e Ambiente: Entendendo o Desmatamento Através do SIG Histórico, Minas Gerais 1750-1840

In S. D. e Silva, D. Sayago, F. Toni, & F. I. Campos (Eds.), Ensaios em Ciências Ambientais: Crises Riscos e Racionalidades (pp. 217–248). Rio de Janeiro: Garamond.

By: F. Freitas

Ed(s): S. Silva, D. Sayago, F. Toni & F. Campos

Event: at Rio de Janeiro

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2015 journal article

The Guarani and the Iguaçu National Park: An Environmental History

ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, 3(1), 18–22. https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/guarani-and-igua%C3%A7u-national-park

By: F. Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2014 journal article

A Park for the Borderlands: The Creation of the Iguaçu National Park in Southern Brazil, 1880-1940

HIb: Revista De Historia Iberoamericana, 7(2), 65–88. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7038844

By: F. Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2014 journal article

Spatial History e humanidades digitais, uma entrevista com o brasilianista Zephyr Frank

História e Cultura, 3(1), 375–392.

By: Z. Frank

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2014 conference paper

The Organic Territory: The Vargas Regime and the Environmental Legislation Boom in Brazil, 1930-1945

Second World Congress of Environmental History, 12(7).

By: F. Freitas

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: April 22, 2023

2013 journal article

Few, Martha, y Tortorici, Zeb (Orgs.). Centering Animals in Latin American History (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013), 391 p.

Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana Y Caribeña (HALAC) Revista De La Solcha, 3(1), 229–232. https://www.halacsolcha.org/index.php/halac/article/view/177

By: F. Freitas

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2013 journal article

Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil 1753-1840

Fronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological, and Environmental Science, 2(2), 49–77.

By: F. Freitas*

co-author countries: United States of America 🇺🇸
Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2013 journal article

Some Reflections on the Notion of Species in History and Anthropology

E-Misférica, 10(1). http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/hemi/en/e-misferica-101/viveiros-de-castro

By: E. Castro

Ed(s): Á. Fernández Bravo

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2013 journal article

Tendências Humanas

E-Misférica, 10(1). http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/hemi/pt/e-misferica-101/cohen

By: E. Cohen

Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2011 journal article

Desafios e possibilidades ao uso de sistemas de informações geográficas na história

ENCONTRO ESCRAVIDÃO E LIBERDADE NO BRASIL MERIDIONAL, 5, 1–21.

By: M. Rabelatto & F. Freitas

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: April 22, 2023

2010 journal article

As Viagens de Francisco Moreno: Visões da Natureza e Construção da Nação no Extremo Sul Argentino, 1873-1906

Revista Angelus Novus, 1(1), 115–143.

By: F. Freitas*

co-author countries: Brazil 🇧🇷
Source: ORCID
Added: June 26, 2022

2009 conference paper

As viagens de Francisco Perito Moreno no extremo sul argentino (1873-1912)

Resumos. Simpósio Internacional de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de São Paulo - SIICUSP.

By: F. Freitas & G. Soares

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: April 22, 2023

Employment

Updated: February 18th, 2019 14:32

2016 - present

North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Assistant Professor History

Education

Updated: February 18th, 2019 14:37

2011 - 2016

Stanford University Stanford, CA, US
PhD History

2010 - 2011

Stanford University Stanford, CA, US
MA History

2005 - 2008

University of Sao Paulo São Paulo, BR
BA History

Funding History

Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: February 21st, 2024 08:26

grant August 1, 2023 - May 1, 2034
Concrete Tropics: An Environmental History of Brazil’s Modernist Capital
National Humanities Center
grant July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
Boundaries of Nature: National Parks and Environmental Change at the Argentine-Brazilian Border, 1890-1990
National Endowment for the Humanities

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