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: Matthew Vitz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: UniEVANGELICA 2022
• Subjects: Mexico; the tropics; tropicality; environmental thought; development; José Vasconcelos; hist; scipo; Bonanza; Bulnes; Romero; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.32991/2237-2717.2022v12i2.p325-358; https://doaj.org/article/2cd32a7d49e64551958f2d110961d224

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...