Climate and society in colonial Mexico
Subtitle: a study in vulnerability
By: Georgina H. Endfield.
Series: RGS-IBG book series
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781405145824; 9781405145831
Subjects: Human ecology -- Mexico -- History.; Water-supply -- Mexico -- History.; Subsistence economy -- Mexico -- History.; Mexico -- Environmental conditions.; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: A vulnerable society; title: Climate, culture and conquest : north, south and central Mexico in the pre-European and contact period; title: Exploring the anatomy of vulnerability in colonial Mexico; title: Responding to crisis : vulnerability and adaptive capacity in colonial Mexico; title: Dearth, deluge and disputes : negotiating and litigating water and climate in colonial Mexico; title: Illusory prosperity : economic growth and subsistence crisis in the disastrous eighteenth century; title: Regional, national and global dimensions of vulnerability and crisis in colonial Mexico.