Description |
viii, 307 p. : ill., maps. |
Series |
Latin American landscapes
|
Bibliography |
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 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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
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-
|
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
Added Author |
Boyer, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert)
|
|
ProQuest (Firm)
|
ISBN |
9780816502493 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
|
9780816599509 (electronic bk.) |
|