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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyer, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert)

Series:

Latin American landscapes.

Latin American landscapes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape changes--Mexico--History.

Landscape changes.

Nature--Effect of human beings on--Mexico--History.

Nature.

Environmental degradation--Mexico--History.

Environmental degradation.

Political ecology--Mexico--History.

Political ecology.

Environmental policy--Mexico--History.

Environmental policy.

Mexico--Environmental conditions.

Mexico.

Mexico--History--1810-.

Mexico--Politics and government--1810-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Mexican environmental history from both the United States and Mexico. The contributions collected in this seminal volume explore a wide array of topics, from the era of independence to the present day. Together they examine how humans have used, abused, and attended to nature in Mexico over more than two hundred years. Written in clear, accessible prose, "A Land Between Waters "showcases the breadth of Mexican environmental history in a way that defines the key topics in the field and suggests avenues for subsequent work. Most importantly, it assesses the impacts of environmental changes that Mexico has faced in the past with an eye to informing national debates about the challenges that the nation will face in the future.

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 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-19184-3

0-8165-9950-5

OCLC:

819379957