Land between waters
Subtitle: environmental histories of modern Mexico
By: edited by Christopher R. Boyer
Series: Latin American landscapes
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816502493
Subjects: Politics and government; Environmental degradation; Nature; Political ecology; Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions; Environmental policy; Landscape changes; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Cycles of Mexican Environmental History / Christopher R. Boyer; title: Downslope and North : How Soil Degradation and Synthetic Pesticides Drove the Trajectory of Mexican Agriculture through the Twentieth Century / Angus Wright; title: Mexico's Breadbasket : Agriculture and the Environment in the Bajío / Martín Sánchez Rodríguez; title: Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829 / Rick A. López; title: Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / José Juan Juárez Flores; title: Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor; title: King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 / Sterling Evans; title: Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 / Myrna I. Santiago; title: Parables of Chapultepec : Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico / Emily Wakild; title: The Illusion of National Power : Water Infrastructure in Mexican Cities, 1930-1990 / Luis Aboites Aguilar; title: Episodes of Environmental History in the Gulf of California : Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture of Nacre and Pearls / Mario Monteforte and Micheline Cariño; title: Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity / Cynthia Radding.