Leviathan in the tropics: A postcolonial environmental history of the Papaloapan development projects in Mexico
by Cosby, Patrick H., Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 2011, 253 pages; 3467567

Abstract:

This dissertation is a critical environmental history of one of the largest development projects ever pursued by the Mexican state. Between the 1940s and the 1970s, Mexican policy-makers that sought to transform tropical nature and indigenous peoples as productive subjects of the nation. As a pioneering example of the application of using “Green Revolution” agricultural techniques and modernist social science, the Papaloapan Projects provide an excellent case study for considering environmental, political, and social change in Latin America and the postcolonial world at large. By drawing together insights from Environmental History, Postcolonial Criticism, and Subaltern Studies, this study makes an interdisciplinary contribution to the historiography of twentieth-century Mexico.
 
AdviserMark Thurner
SchoolUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
SourceDAI/A 72-10, p. , Aug 2011
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsLatin American history; Environmental studies; Latin American studies; Modern history; Public administration
Publication Number3467567
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