A Land between waters : environmental histories of modern Mexico / edited by Christopher R. Boyer.


Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.
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Part of the series Latin American landscapes;Latin American landscapes.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • The Cycles of Mexican Environmental History / Christopher R. Boyer — Downslope and North : How Soil Degradation and Synthetic Pesticides Drove the Trajectory of Mexican Agriculture through the Twentieth Century / Angus Wright — Mexico’s Breadbasket : Agriculture and the Environment in the Bajío / Martín Sánchez Rodríguez — Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829 / Rick A. López — Besieged Forests at Century’s End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala’s La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / José Juan Juárez Flores — Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor — King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 / Sterling Evans — Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 / Myrna I. Santiago — Parables of Chapultepec : Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico / Emily Wakild — The Illusion of National Power : Water Infrastructure in Mexican Cities, 1930-1990 / Luis Aboites Aguilar — Episodes of Environmental History in the Gulf of California : Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture of Nacre and Pearls / Mario Monteforte and Micheline Cariño — Conclusion: Of the Lands in Between and the Environments of Modernity / Cynthia Radding.

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Requested by Lansing, M. and Towle, J.

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