Fernando Pérez Montesinos is an associate professor at UCLA. He was a contributor and coeditor of El Presente del Pasado, an online public history periodical dedicated to examining contemporary Mexican affairs through a historical lens. He is a senior editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review.
* List of Illustrations
* Introduction. Landscaping Indigenous Michoacán: Ecology and
Community, Liberalism and Capitalism in an Indigenous World,
1820–1920
* Chapter 1. Making and Remaking the Indigenous Highlands, circa 7000
BC–AD 1820
* Chapter 2. A Reliable and Resilient Landscape, 1800–1890
* Chapter 3. The Tumultuous Origins of the Reparto Era, 1821–1867
* Chapter 4. Contesting the Liberal Landscape, 1867–1875
* Chapter 5. Land Concentrations and State Interventions, 1875–1890
* Chapter 6. Capitalism Comes to the Uplands: Railroads Invade the
Forests, 1890–1900
* Chapter 7. Assaulting the Landscape: Timber Capitalism, 1900–1910
* Epilogue. The Landscape Survives: Revolution Breaks Timber
Capitalism, 1910–1920
* Acknowledgments. My Village
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index