Environment, Territory, and Landscape Changes in Northern Mexico during the Era of Independence

Abstract

What do we mean by territoriality and how do we connect territory, landscape, and borderlands in the ways in which we build historical narratives? Thinking about the title of this volume in reference to the northern borderlands of Mexico brought me back to the material features of land forms, vegetational patterns, stream flows, and water management systems, which are based on the natural forces of geology and climate. Nevertheless, their changing morphology is demonstrably and even measurably affected by human technique and culture.