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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Boyer, Christopher R.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Latin American landscapes
• Physical Description: viii, 307 p. :; ill., maps.

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 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.