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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

viii, 307 p. : ill, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mexico--Environmental conditions.
Landscape changes--Mexico--History.
Nature--History.--Mexico--History.
Environmental degradation--Mexico--History.
Political ecology--Mexico--History.
Environmental policy--Mexico--History.
Mexico--History--1810-
Mexico--Politics and government--1810-

Other Authors:

Boyer, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Bajâio / Martâin Sâanchez Rodrâiguez -- Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829 / Rick A. Lâopez -- Besieged Forests at Century's End : Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 / Josâe Juan Juâarez Flores -- Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 / Alejandro Tortolero Villaseänor -- King Henequen : Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatâan, 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 Cariäno -- Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity / Cynthia Radding.

Series:

Latin American landscapes.

ISBN:

0816502498 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780816502493 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)774021139

LCCN:

2012000982

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)