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Dreaming of dry land : environmental transformation in colonial Mexico City /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Living in a fluid landscape
- Dreaming of dry land
- The trench of misfortunes
- To serve the city in desagüe country
- All the king's men
- A show of patriotism at the end of the trench
- Toward waterless and dry ground
- Deep colonizing.