Web Sites
Aztecs: Farming and Agriculture (ThinkQuest Team 16325): Description of farming and agriculture and its importance in Aztec life.
Aztec Civilization (Truman State University): Concise descriptions of Aztec contributions to the arts and sciences and the importance of the Sun calendar and religion.
Horticulture of Pre-Columbian America (Jules Janick, Purdue University)
Chocolate: Modern Science Investigates an Ancient Medicine (Journal of Nutrition)
Publications
Ballou, Maturin Murray. Aztec Land. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 1942.
Coe, Michael D. "The Chinampas of Mexico." Scientific American. 211 (July 1964): 90-98, 144.
Cotter, Joseph. Troubled Harvest: Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
DeWalt, Bille R. "Appropriate Technology in Rural Mexico: Antecedents and Consequences on an Indigenous Peasant Innovation." Technology and Culture. 19 (1978): 32-52.
Delle, James A. An Archaeology of Social Space: Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains. New York: Springer, 2006.
Dye, Alan. Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Glaser, Bruno and William I. Woods. Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time. New York: Springer, 2004.
Hall, Michael R. Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Trujillos. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Harvey, H.R. Land and Politics in the Valley of Mexico: a Two Thousand Year Perspective. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
Hurt, R. Douglas. Indian Agriculture in America: Prehistory to the Present. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
Lehmann, Johannes and Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods. Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management. New York: Springer, 2004.
Lopez, Raul Avila. Chinampas de Iztapalapa, D.F. Mexico D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1991.
Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Vintage Press, 2006.
McCook, Stuart George. States of Nature: Science, Agriculture, and Environment in the Spanish Caribbean, 1760-1940. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Ortiz, Fernando. Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.
Rabiela, Teresa Rojas, ed.. Presente, pasado, y futuro de las chinampas. Mexico City: CIESAS, 1995.
Romero, Aldemaro. Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Springer, 2005.
Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Schwartz, Stuart B. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Smith, Michael E. The Aztecs. Boston: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
Soluri, John. Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
Southgate, Douglas. Tropical Forest Conservation: An Economic Assessment of the Alternatives in Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press USA, 1998.
Striffler, Steve and Mark Moberg. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Zanetti, Oscar and Alejandro Garcia. Sugar & Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837-1959. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
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