To Defend Our Water With the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla

Synopsis

What Happened When Native Peoples And Spanish Landowners In Eighteenth-century Mexico Competed For Increasingly Scarce Water? In An Unusual Book That Studies The Interplay Between The Environment And Colonial Social Institutions, Sonya Lipsett-rivera Examines The Exercise Of Power By Elites In Colonial Puebla And How It Brought Ruin On Indian Communities By Denying Them Access To The Water They Needed To Survive.--pub. Desc. 1. Going To The Stream -- 2. The Culture Of Water -- 3. The Problem Of Water -- 4. Water In The Poblano Agrarian Economy -- 5. The Ebb And Flow Of Conflicts In The Countryside -- 6. The Undertow Of Resistance -- 7. Urban Survival And Water -- 8. The Last Drop. Sonya Lipsett-rivera. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.