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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822011003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2012

ISBN

1-299-19184-3

0-8165-9950-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages)

Collana

Latin American landscapes

Altri autori (Persone)

BoyerChristopher R (Christopher Robert)

Disciplina

304.20972

Soggetti

Landscape changes - Mexico - History

Nature - Effect of human beings on - Mexico - History

Environmental degradation - Mexico - History

Political ecology - Mexico - History

Environmental policy - Mexico - History

Mexico Environmental conditions

Mexico History 1810-

Mexico Politics and government 1810-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.