In spite of the sizable scholarly literature on New Spain, and notwithstanding the fact that environmental history is now a highly influential field, on first glance, there seem to be surprisingly few works of environmental history for colonial Mexico. Or are there? This article suggests that as a multi-disciplinary enterprise and as an area of history that overlaps and blends with many others, the environmental history of colonial Mexico has been far more abundant than a first glance might suggest. The blurring of the boundaries between disciplines and different kinds of history has become a hallmark of the scholarship in recent years. The adoption of methodological approaches from microhistory has become another. Together, these trends challenge our ideas about what it means to study environmental history even as they point us towards new opportunities for research.

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墨西哥殖民地的环境史

尽管有许多关于新西班牙的学术文献，并且尽管事实上环境史现在是一个很有影响力的领域，但乍看之下，墨西哥殖民地的环境史著作似乎很少。还是在那里？本文认为，作为一个多学科的企业，以及与许多其他领域重叠和交融的历史领域，墨西哥殖民地的环境历史远比乍一看可能要丰富得多。近年来，学科和不同历史之间界限的模糊化已成为该奖学金的标志。从微观历史上采用方法论方法已成为另一种方法。一起，