Title Watering the revolution : an environmental and technological history of agrarian reform in Mexico / Mikael D. Wolfe

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents El agua de la revolución (The water of the revolution) -- River of revolution -- The debate over damming and pumping el agua de la revolución -- Distributing el agua de la revolución -- The second (envirotechnical) agrarian reform -- Life and work on the revolutionary dam site and ejidos -- (Counter)revolutionary dam, pumps, and pesticides -- Rehabilitating el agua de la revolución -- The legacies of water use and abuse in neoliberal Mexico Summary 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 the 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Land reform -- Mexico -- Laguna Region -- History -- 20th century Water-supply, Agricultural -- Mexico -- Laguna Region -- History -- 20th century Agriculture -- Mexico -- Laguna Region -- History -- 20th century Agricultural innovations -- Mexico -- Laguna Region -- History -- 20th century Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Mexico -- Laguna Region -- 20th century 15.85 history of America. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. Agricultural innovations Agriculture Agriculture -- Environmental aspects Land reform Water-supply, Agricultural Agrarreform Wasserversorgung Mexico -- Laguna Region Mexiko Mexico. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017004587 ISBN 9780822373063 0822373068

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