Land between waters environmental histories of modern Mexico /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Boyer, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.
Series:Latin American landscapes
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.