Land between waters : environmental histories of modern Mexico / / edited by Christopher R. Boyer.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latin American landscapes
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| Physical Description: | viii, 307 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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 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.