| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
environmental histories of modern Mexico |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
BoyerChristopher R., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Tucson |
| Published: |
University of Arizona Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (viii, 307 p.)ill, maps. : |
| Series: |
Latin American landscapes |
| Subject: |
Environmental policy - History - Mexico - |
| Subject: |
Political ecology - History - Mexico - |
| Subject: |
Environmental degradation - History - Mexico - |
| Subject: |
Nature - Effect of human beings on - Mexico - |
| Subject: |
Landscape changes - History - Mexico - |
| Subject: |
Mexico - Politics and government - 1810- - |
| Subject: |
Mexico - History - 1810- - |
| Subject: |
Mexico - Environmental conditions - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780816599509/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780816599509electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780816502493hbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 theTwentieth 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 / Jose 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 OilIndustry 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 theGulf of California : Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture ofNacre andPearls / Mario Monteforte and Micheline Cariño -- Conclusion: Of the"Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity / Cynthia Radding |