Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BIbliografia Colonizzazioni interne Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vera Candiani Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Stanford University Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014-06-04 Language A language of the resource en Zotero Title Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City Item Type Book Author Vera Candiani Publisher Stanford University Press ISBN 978-0-8047-9107-6 Date 2014-06-04 Extra Google-Books-ID: spMaAwAAQBAJ Library Catalog Google Books Language en Abstract Note Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and protracted drainage project in the early modern America—the Desagüe de Huehuetoca. Hundreds of technicians, thousands of indigenous workers, and millions of pesos were marshaled to realize a complex system of canals, tunnels, dams, floodgates, and reservoirs. Vera S. Candiani's Dreaming of Dry Land weaves a narrative that describes what colonization was and looked like on the ground, and how it affected land, water, biota, humans, and the relationship among them, to explain the origins of our built and unbuilt landscapes. Connecting multiple historiographical traditions—history of science and technology, environmental history, social history, and Atlantic history—Candiani proposes that colonization was a class, not an ethnic or nation-based phenomenon, occurring simultaneously on both sides of an Atlantic, where state-building and empire-building were intertwined. Short Title Dreaming of Dry Land Num Pages 409 Attachment Title Google Books Link History / General History / Latin America / Mexico