Mikael D Wolfe

Watering the Revolution

An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of the Mexican revolution and agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region, showing how the contested modernization of the region's irrigation network unintentionally contaminated the water supply, deepened social inequality, and undermined reform efforts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363590
• ISBN-10: 0822363593
• Artikelnr.: 45540120

Autorenporträt

Mikael D. Wolfe

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Abbreviations  xi
Introduction  1
Part I. El Agua de la Revolución (The Water of the Revolution)
1. River of Revolution  23
2. The Debate over Damming and Pumping El Agua de la Revolución  59
3. Distributing El Agua de la Revolución  95
Part II. The Second Agrarian Reform
4. Life and Work on the Revolutionary Dam Site and Ejidos  131
5. (Counter)Revolutionary Dam, Pumps, and Pesticides  163
6. Rehabilitating El Agua de la Revolución  191
Epilogue. The Legacies of Water Use and Abuse in Neoliberal Mexico  219
Appendixes  231
Notes  239
Bibliography  287
Index  305