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Vera S. Candiani - Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City - 9780804788052 - V9780804788052
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Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City

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Description for Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City Hardback.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804788052
SKU
V9780804788052
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Vera S. Candiani
Born in Argentina, Vera S. Candiani is a historian of colonial Latin America who specializes in the confluence of history of technology, environmental history, and social history. She teaches at Princeton University.

Reviews for Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City
"This ambitious and original study traces the history of an important engineering and environmental project in the area surrounding Mexico City during the Spanish colonial period. The author 'decolonizes' historical (mis)understandings of the Desagüe and, in the process, pushes back against narratives of progress and advancement that tend to come with looking at scientific change over time. The work succeeds ... Read more

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