Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of the Mexican revolution and agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region, showing how the contested modernization of the region's irrigation network unintentionally contaminated the water supply, deepened social inequality, and undermined reform efforts.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
Part I. El Agua de la Revolución (The Water of the Revolution)
1. River of Revolution 23
2. The Debate over Damming and Pumping El Agua de la Revolución 59
3. Distributing El Agua de la Revolución 95
Part II. The Second Agrarian Reform
4. Life and Work on the Revolutionary Dam Site and Ejidos 131
5. (Counter)Revolutionary Dam, Pumps, and Pesticides 163
6. Rehabilitating El Agua de la Revolución 191
Epilogue. The Legacies of Water Use and Abuse in Neoliberal Mexico 219
Appendixes 231
Notes 239
Bibliography 287
Index 305
