Bonanza o Falsas Riquezas: Cambiantes Imaginarios Mexicanos del Trópico y el Impulso Civilizatorio

• Published in: Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC) revista de la Solcha
• Main Author: Vitz, Matthew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Evangélica de Goiás 2022
• Subjects: Mexico; the tropics; tropicality; environmental thought; development; José Vasconcelos; intellectual history; Bonanza; Bulnes; Romero; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://www.halacsolcha.org/index.php/halac/article/view/624

Existing scholarship on “tropicality” emphasizes how Europeans and US-Americans constructed the tropics discursively and visually in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scientists, investors, and travelers denigrated tropical spaces to legitimize imperialism, labeling them backwards, racially d...