Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Cycles of Mexican Environmental History - Christopher R. Boyer -- 2. Downslope and North: How Soil Degradation and Synthetic Pesticides Drove the Trajectory of Mexican Agriculture through the Twentieth Century - Angus Wright -- 3. Mexico's Breadbasket: Agriculture and the Environment in the Bajío - Martín Sánchez Rodríguez -- 4. Nature as Subject and Citizen in the Mexican Botanical Garden, 1787-1829 - Rick A. López -- 5. Besieged Forests at Century's End: Industry, Speculation, and Dispossession in Tlaxcala's La Malintzin Woodlands, 1860-1910 - José Juan Juárez Flores -- 6. Water and Revolution in Morelos, 1850-1915 - Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor -- 7. King Henequen: Order, Progress, and Ecological Change in Yucatán, 1850-1950 - Sterling Evans -- 8. Class and Nature in the Oil Industry of Northern Veracruz, 1900-1938 - Myrna I. Santiago -- 9. Parables of Chapultepec: Urban Parks, National Landscapes, and Contradictory Conservation in Modern Mexico - Emily Wakild -- 10. The Illusion of National Power: Water Infrastructure in Mexican Cities, 1930-1990 - Luis Aboites Aguilar -- 11. Episodes of Environmental History in the Gulf of California: Fisheries, Commerce, and Aquaculture of Nacre and Pearls - Mario Monteforte and Micheline Cariño -- 12. Conclusion: Of the "Lands in Between" and the Environments of Modernity - Cynthia Radding -- About the Contributors -- Index.