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Author Candiani, Vera S., author

Title Dreaming of dry land : environmental transformation in colonial Mexico City / Vera S. Candiani
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 376 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Living in a fluid landscape -- Dreaming of dry land -- The trench of misfortunes -- To serve the city in desagüe country -- All the king's men -- A show of patriotism at the end of the trench -- Toward waterless and dry ground -- Deep colonizing
Summary 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 Dream
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Drainage -- Mexico -- Mexico, Valley of -- History -- 17th century
Flood control -- Mexico -- Mexico, Valley of -- History -- 17th century
Hydraulic engineering -- Mexico -- Mexico, Valley of -- History -- 17th century
Public works -- Mexico -- Mexico, Valley of -- History -- 17th century
Human ecology -- Mexico -- Mexico, Valley of -- History -- 17th century
Land use -- Mexico -- Mexico, Valley of -- History -- 17th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Drainage
Flood control
Human ecology
Hydraulic engineering
Land use
Public works
Überschwemmung
Landwirtschaft
SUBJECT Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084578
Subject Mexico
Mexico -- Valley of Mexico
Land Mexiko
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804791076
0804791074