Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Wolfe, Mikael D.
Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Wolfe, Mikael D.

Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental...
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Author: Mikael D. Wolfe
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Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Wolfe, Mikael D.

Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

$90.82
Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico by Wolfe, Mikael D.

Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

$90.82
Author: Mikael D. Wolfe
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 canals, and motorized groundwater pumps. This tension generally resolved in favor of development, which unintentionally diminished and contaminated the water supply while deepening existing rural social inequalities by dividing people into water haves and have-nots, regardless of their access to land. By uncovering the varied motivations behind the Mexican government's decision to use invasive and damaging technologies despite knowing they were ecologically unsustainable, Wolfe tells a cautionary tale of the long-term consequences of short-sighted development policies.

Author: Mikael D. Wolfe
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 06/23/2017
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780822363743

About the Author
Mikael D. Wolfe is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.
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