Title: To defend our water with the blood of our veins
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: History, Political aspects, Political aspects of Water resources development, Political aspects of Water-supply, Water resources development, Water-supply, Mexico, history, New mexico, history
Places: Mexico, Puebla (State)
LC classification: HD1696.M63 P845 1999