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In Watering the Revolution 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 (1910-1940) engineers’ distribution of water paradoxically undermined land distribution. In so doing, he highlights the intrinsic tension engineers faced between the urgent need for water conservation and the imperative for development during the contentious modernization of the Laguna's existing flood irrigation method into one regulated by high dams, concrete-lined ca...
A cien años del estallido de la Revolución mexicana, esta obra rescata muchas de las imágenes que han sido injustamente confinadas al exilio de la desmemoria, con una reflexión sobre el proceso revolucionario y su impacto en el contexto mundial de la época, los avances de la tecnología fotográfica y la iconografía al despuntar el siglo xx. Esta obra se presenta en gran formato y en un formato más reducido, con menor número de páginas
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