Land Between Waters Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico

Name: Land Between Waters Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico
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ISBN: 9780816502493

ISBN-10: 0816502498

ISBN-13: 9780816502493

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Christopher R. Boyer

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Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent’s largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people’s use of the land, extraction of its resources, and attempts to conserve it have shaped both the landscape and its inhabitants.A Land Between Waters explores the relationship between the people and the environment in Mexico. It heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study within the field of Mexican history. This volume brings together a dozen original works of environmental history by some of the foremost experts in…

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List price: $55.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 9/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.25" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Cycles of Mexican Environmental History




Downslope and North: How Soil Degradation and Synthetic Pesticides Drove the Trajectory of Mexican Agriculture through the Twentieth Century




Mexico's Breadbasket: Agriculture and the Environment in the Bajï¿½o




Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829




Besieged Forests at Century's End: Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910.




Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915




King Henequen: Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatï¿½n, 1850-1950




Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938




Parables of Chapultepec: Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico




The Illusion of National Power: Water Infrastructure in Mexican Cities, 1930-1990




Episodes of Environmental History in the Gulf of California: Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture of Nacre and Pearls




Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity



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