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

Imprint Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.

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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.)

 
    
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