Christopher R Boyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 704694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher R Boyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher R |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyer |
| SIGNATURE | BOYER C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political Landscapes
In this environmental history of twentieth-century Mexico, Christopher R. Boyer conceptualizes the forests of Chihuahua and Michoacán as political landscapes. Conflicts among local landowners, the federal government and timber companies politicized these geographies, demonstrating the crucial role that social forces play in the construction of environments.
Political Landscapes
The Ecology of Class
Mexican villagers endured three decades of dispossession during the late nineteenth-century dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1880, 1884–1911). The transfer of most lands held by communities known as pueblos led many rural people to join the Mexican revolution of 1910–1917, and it helped to structure the postrevolutionary politics. Using E. P. Thompson's concept of “community,” this article suggests that villagers' sense of solidarity formed by…
Planet Taco
A well-known saying in Spanish declares, “Explain who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.” In our own era, in which global food industries cater to mass markets while the upper middle classes partake in local food movements and post photos to Instagram of exotic meals, perhaps a more apt aphorism would be, “Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are.” Jeffrey Pilcher’s most recent book shows that food is linked with identity…
Making a New World
John Tutino (2011), x+698 (Duke University Press, Durham, NC, $99.95, paperback $29.95). Ever since the 1970s, the story of how commerce and colonial settlement mutually reinforced each other in no
The Deepest Wounds
Book Review| December 01 2012 The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil by Rogers, Thomas D.. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010xvi + 302 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper) Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (4): 105–106. htt…
Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico
This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934-40) through the prism of environmental history. The Cárdenas administration is best known for its use of land reform, creation of mass organizations, and the nationalization of key industries to fulfill what it understood as the "promises" of the revolution. Yet such assertions render the natural world invisible. We show that a fundamental element of Cárdenas's a…
The Agrarian Dispute
Bound in Twine
Bound in Twine is an ambitious study of a seemingly ordinary commodity: binder twine used in the reaper-binders favored by wheat farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Canadian Prairie Provinces between the 1880s and the 1930s. The book studies the commodity chain that began with the production of henequen in the Yucatán, followed by its transformation into binder twine by the North American cordage industry, and ultimately wheat farmers’ use of twine i…
The Ecology of Oil
Book Review| September 01 2007 The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 Myrna I. Santiago New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 xii + 411 pp., $85.00 (cloth) Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2007) 4 (3): 126–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2007-017 …
The Take; Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman
Other| May 01 2006 The Take; Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (2): 152–154. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2005-024 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation …
The Making of the Mexican Border
Book Review| September 01 2005 The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910 The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910 Juan Mora-Torres Austin: University of Texas Press xi + 346 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper) Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (3): 124–125. https…
Becoming Campesinos
Becoming Campesinos argues that the formation of the campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. Challenging the assumption that rural peoples "naturally" share a sense of cultural solidarity and political consciousness because of their subordinate social status, the author maintains that the particular understanding of popu…
The Collective and the Public in Latin America
The editors frame this volume as a sequel to the 1998 Constructing Collective Identities and Shaping Public Spheres, edited by Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder, and with good reason. The current volume presents a broad cross section of work that fills out themes broached in the earlier book, investigating the practices, discourses, and social networks that shape social identities at regional and national levels. The book is arranged in three thema…
Panama’s Poor
Book Review| October 01 2000 Panama’s Poor: Victims, Agents, and Historymakers Panama’s Poor: Victims, Agents, and Historymakers. Gloria Rudolf. Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 829–830. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.4.829 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher R. Boyer; Panama’s Poor: Victims…
Old Loves, New Loyalties
Sixty-five years after he laid down the carbine that he had used to batde Catholic guerrilla rebels in the late I92os, an elderly peasant from the western state of Michoacain reflected on what had inspired him and his comrades to risk their lives on behalf of Mexico's revolutionary government: We fought with complete loyalty, for love of the land, Trinidad Coronel explained, because the high clergy and the hacienda owners wanted to demolish agrar…
Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico
This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934-40) through the prism of environmental history. The Cárdenas administration is best known for its use of land reform, creation of mass organizations, and the nationalization of key industries to fulfill what it understood as the "promises" of the revolution. Yet such assertions render the natural world invisible. We show that a fundamental element of Cárdenas's a…
The Ecology of Oil
Book Review| September 01 2007 The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 Myrna I. Santiago New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 xii + 411 pp., $85.00 (cloth) Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2007) 4 (3): 126–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2007-017 …
Old Loves, New Loyalties
Sixty-five years after he laid down the carbine that he had used to batde Catholic guerrilla rebels in the late I92os, an elderly peasant from the western state of Michoacain reflected on what had inspired him and his comrades to risk their lives on behalf of Mexico's revolutionary government: We fought with complete loyalty, for love of the land, Trinidad Coronel explained, because the high clergy and the hacienda owners wanted to demolish agrar…
Old Loves, New Loyalties
Sixty-five years after he laid down the carbine that he had used to batde Catholic guerrilla rebels in the late I92os, an elderly peasant from the western state of Michoacain reflected on what had inspired him and his comrades to risk their lives on behalf of Mexico's revolutionary government: We fought with complete loyalty, for love of the land, Trinidad Coronel explained, because the high clergy and the hacienda owners wanted to demolish agrar…
Panama’s Poor
Book Review| October 01 2000 Panama’s Poor: Victims, Agents, and Historymakers Panama’s Poor: Victims, Agents, and Historymakers. Gloria Rudolf. Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 829–830. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.4.829 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher R. Boyer; Panama’s Poor: Victims…
Becoming Campesinos
Becoming Campesinos argues that the formation of the campesino as both a political category and a cultural identity in Mexico was one of the most enduring legacies of the great revolutionary upheavals that began in 1910. Challenging the assumption that rural peoples "naturally" share a sense of cultural solidarity and political consciousness because of their subordinate social status, the author maintains that the particular understanding of popu…
The Collective and the Public in Latin America
The editors frame this volume as a sequel to the 1998 Constructing Collective Identities and Shaping Public Spheres, edited by Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder, and with good reason. The current volume presents a broad cross section of work that fills out themes broached in the earlier book, investigating the practices, discourses, and social networks that shape social identities at regional and national levels. The book is arranged in three thema…
The Making of the Mexican Border
Book Review| September 01 2005 The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910 The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910 Juan Mora-Torres Austin: University of Texas Press xi + 346 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper) Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (3): 124–125. https…
The Take; Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman
Other| May 01 2006 The Take; Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (2): 152–154. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2005-024 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation …
The Ecology of Oil
Book Review| September 01 2007 The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938 Myrna I. Santiago New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 xii + 411 pp., $85.00 (cloth) Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2007) 4 (3): 126–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2007-017 …
Bound in Twine
Bound in Twine is an ambitious study of a seemingly ordinary commodity: binder twine used in the reaper-binders favored by wheat farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Canadian Prairie Provinces between the 1880s and the 1930s. The book studies the commodity chain that began with the production of henequen in the Yucatán, followed by its transformation into binder twine by the North American cordage industry, and ultimately wheat farmers’ use of twine i…
The Agrarian Dispute
The Deepest Wounds
Book Review| December 01 2012 The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil by Rogers, Thomas D.. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010xvi + 302 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper) Christopher R. Boyer Christopher R. Boyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2012) 9 (4): 105–106. htt…
Social Landscaping in the Forests of Mexico
This article reinterprets the pivotal presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas of Mexico, (1934-40) through the prism of environmental history. The Cárdenas administration is best known for its use of land reform, creation of mass organizations, and the nationalization of key industries to fulfill what it understood as the "promises" of the revolution. Yet such assertions render the natural world invisible. We show that a fundamental element of Cárdenas's a…
Making a New World
John Tutino (2011), x+698 (Duke University Press, Durham, NC, $99.95, paperback $29.95). Ever since the 1970s, the story of how commerce and colonial settlement mutually reinforced each other in no
Planet Taco
A well-known saying in Spanish declares, “Explain who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.” In our own era, in which global food industries cater to mass markets while the upper middle classes partake in local food movements and post photos to Instagram of exotic meals, perhaps a more apt aphorism would be, “Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are.” Jeffrey Pilcher’s most recent book shows that food is linked with identity…
Political Landscapes
In this environmental history of twentieth-century Mexico, Christopher R. Boyer conceptualizes the forests of Chihuahua and Michoacán as political landscapes. Conflicts among local landowners, the federal government and timber companies politicized these geographies, demonstrating the crucial role that social forces play in the construction of environments.
Political Landscapes
The Ecology of Class
Mexican villagers endured three decades of dispossession during the late nineteenth-century dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1880, 1884–1911). The transfer of most lands held by communities known as pueblos led many rural people to join the Mexican revolution of 1910–1917, and it helped to structure the postrevolutionary politics. Using E. P. Thompson's concept of “community,” this article suggests that villagers' sense of solidarity formed by…
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