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Title A land between waters : environmental histories of modern Mexico / edited by Christopher R. Boyer
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Latin American landscapes
Latin American landscapes.
Contents 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
Summary "Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent's largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people's use of the land, extraction of its resources, and attempts to conserve it have shaped both the landscape and its inhabitants. A Land Between Waters explores the relationship between the people and the environment in Mexico. It heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study within the field of Mexican history. This volume brings together a dozen original works of environmental history by some of the foremost experts in Mexican environmental history from both the United States and Mexico. The contributions collected in this seminal volume explore a wide array of topics, from the era of independence to the present day. Together they examine how humans have used, abused, and attended to nature in Mexico over more than two hundred years. Written in clear, accessible prose, A Land Between Waters showcases the breadth of Mexican environmental history in a way that defines the key topics in the field and suggests avenues for subsequent work. Most importantly, it assesses the impacts of environmental changes that Mexico has faced in the past with an eye to informing national debates about the challenges that the nation will face in the future."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Environmental degradation -- Mexico -- History
Environmental policy -- Mexico -- History
Landscape changes -- Mexico -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Mexico -- History
Political ecology -- Mexico -- History
HISTORY -- General.
Ecology
Environmental degradation
Environmental policy
Landscape changes
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Political ecology
Politics and government
SUBJECT Mexico -- Environmental conditions
Mexico -- History -- 1810- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084581
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1810- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084608
Subject Mexico
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Boyer, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert), editor.
LC no. 2012000982
ISBN 0816599505
1299191843
9780816599509
9781299191846
Other Titles Environmental histories of modern Mexico