Watering the revolution : an environmental and technological history of agrarian reform in Mexico

Watering the revolution : an environmental and technological history of agrarian reform in Mexico / Mikael D. Wolfe.

Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfe, Mikael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Land reform > Mexico > Laguna Region > History > 20th century.
Water-supply, Agricultural > Mexico > Laguna Region > History > 20th century.
Agriculture > Mexico > Laguna Region > History > 20th century.
Agricultural innovations > Mexico > Laguna Region > History > 20th century.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects > Mexico > Laguna Region > 20th century.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • El agua de la revolución (The water of the revolution)
  • River of revolution
  • The debate over damming and pumping el agua de la revolución
  • Distributing el agua de la revolución
  • The second (envirotechnical) agrarian reform
  • Life and work on the revolutionary dam site and ejidos
  • (Counter)revolutionary dam, pumps, and pesticides
  • Rehabilitating el agua de la revolución
  • The legacies of water use and abuse in neoliberal Mexico.

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