Land between waters [electronic resource] : environmental histories of modern Mexico / edited by Christopher R. Boyer.

Contributor(s): Boyer, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert) | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Latin American landscapesPublication details: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012Description: viii, 307 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780816599509 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Landscape changes -- Mexico -- History | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Mexico -- History | Environmental degradation -- Mexico -- History | Political ecology -- Mexico -- History | Environmental policy -- Mexico -- History | Mexico -- Environmental conditions | Mexico -- History -- 1810- | Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1810-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 304.20972 LOC classification: GE160.M58 | L36 2012Online resources: Click to View
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 Bajio / Martin Sanchez Rodriguez -- Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829 / Rick A. Lopez -- Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / Jose Juan Juarez Flores -- Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villasenor -- King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatan, 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 Carino -- Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity / Cynthia Radding.
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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 Bajio / Martin Sanchez Rodriguez -- Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829 / Rick A. Lopez -- Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / Jose Juan Juarez Flores -- Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villasenor -- King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatan, 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 Carino -- Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity / Cynthia Radding.

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