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A Land Between Waters
Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent’s largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people’s use of the land, extraction of its resources, and attempts to conserve it have shaped both the landscape and its inhabitants. A Land Between Waters explores the relationship between the people and the environment in Mexico. It heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study within the field of Mexican history. This volume brings together a dozen original works of environmental history by some of the foremost experts in Me...
El conflicto del agua
Esta obra presenta de forma inédita una investigación de largo aliento que busca recuperar la naturaleza social del agua, y destacar que es fundamental que la sociedad participe en el manejo y conservación de este recurso, con sus prácticas, ideas, significados, valores, potenciales e intereses que le confiere. Para ello los autores abordan, con un enfoque transversal y multidimensional, los múltiples y distintos conflictos que derivan del saneamiento, degradación y agotamiento de los ecosistemas acuáticos; de los daños y riesgos por las actividades extractivas y de aprovechamiento de las energías limpias, y del ineficaz o inexistente servicio de distribución del agua.
ANTOLOGÍA SOBRE PEQUEÑO RIEGO, Vol. II. organizaciones autogestivas
El regadío tiene dos implicaciones, una parte técnica referida a la infraestructura y otra parte social referida a la organización para la administración de la infraestructura y a la contrucción misma. La existencia de infraestructura hidráulica no es una condición suficiente para que se pueda dar el regadío; la ausencia de la componente social/organizativa lleva al deterioro y destrucción de la obra hidráulica. El regadío tiene, entonces, ciertas implicaciones en la organización social.El alcance de estas implicaciones es motivo de debate teórico, no así el hecho de peculariedades organizativas que diferencian la agricultura de secano de la agricultura de riego. Tal y como se ...
Matilde Landa
Matilde Landa Vaz (1904-1942) fue una de las principales figuras del movimiento de mujeres antifascistas de los años treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX. Formada en el entorno de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza y relacionada con intelectuales como Antonio Machado y Miguel Hernández, durante la Segunda República se afilió al PCE. Su protagonismo en la ayuda a los refugiados republicanos durante la Guerra Civil y en la articulación de la solidaridad con las condenadas a muerte (1939-1940) en la Cárcel de Ventas la convirtieron en una heroína entre las presas políticas de la inmediata posguerra, pero fueron, sobre todo, las pavorosas circunstancias que la condujeron a quitarse la vida e...
Black Ranching Frontiers
DIVIn this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world./div DIVSluyter shows that Africans’ ideas and creativity helped to establish a production system so fundamental to the environmental and social relations of the American colonies that the consequences persist to the present. He examines various methods of cattle production, compares these methods to those used in Europe and the Americas, and traces the networks of actors that linked that Atlantic world. The use of archival documents, material culture items, and ecological relationships between landscape elements make this book a methodologically and substantively original contribution to Atlantic, African-American, and agricultural history./div
Dreaming of Dry Land
Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and protracted drainage project in the early modern America—the Desagüe de Huehuetoca. Hundreds of technicians, thousands of indigenous workers, and millions of pesos were marshaled to realize a complex system of canals, tunnels, dams, floodgates, and reservoirs. Vera S. Candiani's Dreaming of Dry Land weaves a narrative that describes what colonization was and looked like on the ground, and how it affected land, water, biota, humans, and the relationship among them, to explain the origins of our built and unbuilt landscapes. Connecting multiple historiographical traditions—history of science and technology, environmental history, social history, and Atlantic history—Candiani proposes that colonization was a class, not an ethnic or nation-based phenomenon, occurring simultaneously on both sides of an Atlantic, where state-building and empire-building were intertwined.
