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Hispanic American Historical Review (1985) 65 (3): 573–574.
Published: 01 August 1985
...John H. Coatsworth Man, Land, and Water: Mexico’s Farmlands Irrigation Policies, 1885-1911 . By Kroeber Clifton B. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1984 . Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 288 . Cloth. $24.50 . Copyright 1985 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (1): 198–199.
Published: 01 February 1984
...Jeremy A. Sabloff A Late Formative Irrigation Settlement below Monte Albán: Survey and Excavation on the Xoxocotlán Piedmont, Oaxaca, Mexico . By O’Brien Michael J. , Mason Roger D. , Lewarch Dennis E. , and Neely James A. . Austin : Institute of Latin American Studies...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Cheryl E. Martin Irrigation in the Bajío Region of Central Mexico . By Murphy Michael E. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1988 . Maps. Figures. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 226 . Paper. $21.50 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 A major...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (4): 727.
Published: 01 November 1973
...Marc Simmons The Old World Background of The Irrigation System of San Antonio, Texas . By Glick Thomas F. . El Paso, Texas , 1972 . Texas Western Press . Monograph, 35 . Maps . Pp. 67 . Paper. $3.00 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Initialed book notices...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (3): 554–555.
Published: 01 August 1974
...D.S.D. The Prehistory of the Tehuacán Valley . Vol. IV: Chronology and Irrigation . Edited by Johnson Frederick . Austin , 1972 . Published for the Robert S. Peabody Foundation by the University of Texas Press . Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Figures. Appendices. Bibliography. Index...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 November 1979
...Roger Fox Drought and Irrigation in North-East Brazil . By Hall Anthony L. . New York , 1978 . Cambridge University Press . Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 152 . Cloth . $15.95 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Records of human suffering...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 February 1971
...C. J. Bishko Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia . By Glick Thomas F. . Cambridge, Mass. , 1970 . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Note. Glossary. Appendices. Bibliography. Indices . Pp. xviii , 386 . $15.00 . Copyright 1971...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Kathleen Kole de Peralta Abstract Noxious airs from trash discards, irrigation canals, marketplaces, hospitals, and plazas vitiated colonial Lima's environment. Using olfactory history, this article examines how residents reacted to their pungent environs. Early modern Iberians believed that foul...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (3-4): 792–793.
Published: 01 August 2001
... on irrigation; and the demand for water from other stakeholders is increasing, especially in the expanding municipal and industrial sectors. In most countries, including Mexico, the state’s role in irrigation has shifted from large-scale water development projects, financed and operated by national agencies...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (4): 725–726.
Published: 01 November 2005
... as water scarcity by some observers is the norm in the Andes, not the exception. Water supplies in the past allowed for a greater extent of cultivated land, and there is enough water today to irrigate this former extent. The problem lays in distribution. Trawick recommends that Peru develop both new...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 695–696.
Published: 01 November 1995
.... Paper . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 “Closely associated with the agrarian and agricultural problems of Mexico,” wrote a student of the country in the 1920s, “is that of irrigation; it is impossible for a dweller in a land where water is plentiful and taken for granted much...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 365–366.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Irrigation remains a vital element of life in the Mexican countryside. Access to water is fundamental to prosperity and even survival yet many scholars have not recognized its importance in the dynamics of both rural and urban societies. This is an area where Mexican...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 321–322.
Published: 01 May 1998
... nineteenth century with the appearance of numerous private, large-scale irrigation projects. While most never came to fruition, they prompted a reconsideration of potential conflicts between Spanish-derived means of allocating irrigation water and those necessary for large-scale irrigation projects serving...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 433–436.
Published: 01 May 1996
... to the founding of sugarcane fields and trapiches the potentially irrigable areas on lands controlled by Atzacoaloya, Ayahualulco, Hueycantenango, etc. seem not to have been irrigated at all, presumably because the labor entailed in constructing and maintaining irrigation systems was more profitably applied...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 463–481.
Published: 01 August 1990
.... The destruction of water works or denial of irrigation had consequences ranging from the loss of a harvest, to bankruptcy, or to utter subjection. With so much at stake, judicial defeats, sabotage, and usurpation were not accepted lightly. Victims often responded with more violence, intimidation, or, in the case...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1962) 42 (2): 279.
Published: 01 May 1962
... of parched lands. Two million hectares (one hectare equals 2.471 acres) have been brought under irrigation. Adolfo Orive Alba’s book runs to 292 pages, including seven statistical appendices, profusely illustrated with maps, tables, technical drawings, graphs, and photographs. It presents a panorama...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 5–39.
Published: 01 February 2012
... developed while it was still believed that the development of the state, production, and industrialization (capitalist or otherwise) were inescapable and “progressive” tasks for all societies. This approach was paradoxically reinforced after Karl Wittfogel linked irrigation hydraulic engineering to the rise...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 799.
Published: 01 November 1996
... is the translation from English of Clifton Kroeber’s Man, Land, and Water: Mexico’s Farmlands Irrigation Policies, 1885-1911 , which was first published in 1983, Kroeber's book serves as a particularly appropriate introduction to the other volumes, because he documents some of the first state-sponsored...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (2): 191–192.
Published: 01 May 1966
...William M. Denevan For some years now, scholars have been wondering about the fate of the manuscripts of the late Paul Kosok, who made extensive surveys of pre-Columbian irrigation on the north coast of Peru in the 1940s. The first of two planned books has now been published, a magnificent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1982) 62 (2): 284–285.
Published: 01 May 1982
..., but was subsequently incorporated into Chile after the War of the Pacific. The south was the driest part of the Peruvian coast, and most of its population lived in narrow irrigated valleys and quebradas that ran down the western slopes of the Andes rather than on broad alluvial plains close to the shore...
