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...Richard M. McCornack Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Chapala . By de Alba Antonio . Guadalajara , 1954 . Banco Industrial de Jalisco . Illustrations. Maps . Pp. 177 . Paper. ...

... topic with a labor of recent reading and reflection on developments following the Salinas regime’s dismantling of Mexican corporatist-era rural institutions and society. The book’s glaring hole, however—its lack of substantive new fieldwork on the peasants it purports to study (of the Ciénega de Chapala...

... the Lake Chapala region during the Mexican War for Independence. The storytelling abilities of each of these authors are superb, so they make for good reads, in particular the piece by Archer on the remarkable resistance of a mostly indigenous force on the island of Mezcala from 1811 to 1816. While...

..., as well as the standard-bearing works of Mexican water history such as Luis Aboites Aguilar’s El agua de la nación and the late Brigitte Boehm’s Historia ecológica de la Cuenca de Chapala (surprisingly, the authors do not mention William Cronon’s classic work of urban environmental history, Nature’s...

... by Lake Chapala, on the north by San Cristóbal de la Barranca, on the east by Tepatitlán, and on the west by Ameca. The basic unifying feature of the area is that most of it lies within the basin of the Lerma River, after it emerges from Lake Chapala rechristened the Río Grande de Santiago...

... dominance of the city constituted what is here called the Guadalajara region, embracing about 20,000 square kilometers stretching from Lake Chapala in the south to San Cristóbal de la Barranca in the north, and from the Altos of Jalisco in the east to Ameca in the west. During the eighteenth century...

..., Cuautla, Isla de Mescala (Laguna de Chapala), and other strongpoints designed to exhaust the royalists in lengthy sieges. 19 As the war dragged on, senior commanders realized that it would take years to extirpate insurgency. The army moved relentlessly into new areas to establish its powers...

... occasionally drove previously neutral Mexicans into the insurgent camp and thus prolonged the conflict. While successful in the main, José de la Cruz was charged by the Audiencia of Guadalajara with having so enraged the Indians near Lake Chapala by the destruction of their villages that in 1813 they fortified...

.... 59 While Parícutin's damnificados fruitlessly pleaded their case with federal officials in 1945, seasonally unemployed sugar mill workers from Tamazula, Jalisco, in the sierras south of Lake Chapala, wrote to President Ávila Camacho to request bracero contracts and to express bewilderment...

... of the relationships between hydraulic engineering, climate change, and development in the Peruvian Andes, see Mark Carey, In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010). 9 Waterscapes in Chalco, Naranja, Metztitlán, Chapala, and elsewhere disappeared...

... of the mining industry. 59 From Nueva Galicia, Cruz similarly reported insurgent attacks on organized villages from the rebel base on the island of Mescala in Lake Chapala, which he did not manage to reduce until November 25, 1816, and from bands operating across the borders of Guanajuato and Michoacán...