A land between waters : environmental histories of modern Mexico /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boyer, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]
Colección:Latin American landscapes.
Temas:
Since 1810
Environmental degradation > Mexico > History.
Environmental policy > Mexico > History.
Landscape changes > Mexico > History.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Mexico > History.
Political ecology > Mexico > History.
Environnement > Dégradation > Mexique > Histoire.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Mexique > Histoire.
Paysages > Modifications > Mexique > Histoire.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > Mexique > Histoire.
Écologie politique > Mexique > Histoire.
HISTORY > General.
Ecology.
Environmental degradation.
Environmental policy.
Landscape changes.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Political ecology.
Politics and government
Mexico > Environmental conditions.
Mexico > History > 1810-
Mexico > Politics and government > 1810-
Mexique > Histoire > 1810-
Mexique > Politique et gouvernement > 1810-
Mexico.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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