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Land Between Waters
Christopher R. . Ed(S): Boyer
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Description for Land Between Waters
Paperback. Showcases the breadth of Mexican environmental history in a way that defines the key topics in the field and suggests avenues for subsequent work. 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. Editor(s): Boyer, Christopher R. Series: Latin American Landscapes. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Latin American Landscapes
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816531394
SKU
V9780816531394
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About Christopher R. . Ed(S): Boyer
Christopher R. Boyer is an associate professor of history and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920–1935.
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