- Books in Brief
The editorial office has received a number of edited volumes of articles and other general texts that will be of interest to our readership. These works tend to be less suitable for unified reviews than monographs, and thus a considerable backlog has developed. To introduce these volumes, we occasionally list in this section the publication information and tables of contents entries for those we have received. The volumes selected for this issue provide an overview of recent work on Environmental History and Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Mexico.
A Land Between Waters: Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico. Edited by Christopher R. Boyer. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2012. Pp. viii, . Illustrations. Tables. Index. $55.00 cloth.
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
Martin 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 Torolero 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 [End Page 555]
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
Centering Animals in Latin American History. Edited by Martha Few. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, . Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $26.95 paper; $94.95 cloth.
Foreword
Ericka Fudge
Introduction: Writing Animal Histories
Zeb Tortorici and Martha Few
Part I: Animals, Culture, and Colonialism
The Year the People Turned into Cattle: The End of the World in New Spain, 1558
León García Garagarza
Killing Locusts in Colonial Guatemala
Martha Few
“In the Name of the Father and the Mother of All Dogs”: Canine Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals in Bourbon Mexico
Zeb Tortorici
Part II: Animals and Medicine, Science, and Public Health
From Natural History to Popular Remedy: Animals and Their Medicinal Applications Among the Kallawaya in Colonial Peru
Adam Warren
Pest to Vector: Disease, Public Health, and the Challenges of State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1833–1922
Heather McCrea
Notes on Medicine, Culture, and the History of Imported Monkeys in Puerto Rico
Neel Ahuja
Part III: The Meanings and Politics of Postcolonial Animals
Animal Labor and Protection in Cuba: Changes in Relationships with Animals in the Nineteenth Century
Reinaldo Funes Monzotes, trans. Alex Hidalgo and Zeb Tortorici
On Edge: Fur Seals and Hunters along the Patagonian Littoral, 1860–1930
John Soluri [End Page 556]
Birds and Scientists in Brazil: In Search of Protection, 1894–1938
Regina Horta Duarte, trans. Zeb Tortorici and Roger Arthur Cough
Trujillo, the Goat: Of Beasts, Men, and Politics in the Dominican Republic
Lauren Derby
Conclusion: Loving, Being, Killing Animals
Neil L. Whitehead
Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca. By Arthur A. Joyce. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013. Pp. . Figures. Tables. Index. $75.00 cloth.
Foreword
Robert N. Zeitlin
Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca: An Introduction
Arthur A. Joyce
Paleoecological Evidence for Early Agriculture and Forest Clearance in Coastal Oaxaca
Michelle Goman, Arthur A. Joyce, and Raymond G. Mueller
Anthropogenic Landscape Change and the Human Ecology of the Lower Río Verde Valley
Raymond G. Mueller, Arthur A. Joyce, Aleksander Borejsza, and Michelle Goman
Formative Period Burial Practices and Cemeteries
Sarah B. Barber, Arthur A. Joyce, Arion T. Mayes, José Aguilar, and Michelle Butler
Place-Making and Power in the Terminal Formative: Excavations on Rio Viejo...