To defend our water with the blood of our veins
Subtitle: the struggle for resources in colonial Puebla
By: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- Puebla (State) -- History.; Water resources development -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- Puebla (State) -- History.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-191) and index.