Title: El paradigma porfiriano
Description: "Well-documented examination of the struggle to construct drainage works in a perpetually-flooding capital. Sees Don Porfirio as Faust in the drama of Mexican development, and argues that the plan to drain Mexico City was just as much a bid for more political and social control as a response to scientific and salutary imperatives"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Drainage, Ethics, History, Pearson (S.) and Son, Ltd
Places: Mexico, Mexico City (Mexico), Valley of Mexico
People: Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915)
Time periods: 1867-1910