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Drought and Irrigation in North-East Brazil
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 November 1979
...Roger Fox Hall concludes with some interesting comparisons to irrigation schemes in other parts of the world. Several alternatives to Brazil’s current irrigation strategy also are examined (collective cultivation, new technology, land redistribution, marketing reform, and resettlement...
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Irrigation in the Bajío Region of Central Mexico
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1989) 69 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Cheryl E. Martin In his chapter on irrigation technology, Murphy acknowledges that for much of the colonial period Mexicans lagged far behind their European contemporaries. By the early nineteenth century, however, they had made significant progress in closing the gap. Murphy concludes...
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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...
View articletitled, A Late Formative <span class="search-highlight">Irrigation</span> Settlement below Monte Albán: Survey and Excavation on the Xoxocotlán Piedmont, Oaxaca, Mexico
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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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Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia
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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 (1974) 54 (3): 554–555.
Published: 01 August 1974
... evidence for the existence of varied water control features—dams, canals, terraces, irrigated fields, etc.—dating from at least 700 B.C. are described and discussed in detail by Richard B. Woodbury and James A. Neely. Complementary, and of equal import to students of the role of irrigation in Mesoamerica...
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Mal Olor and Colonial Latin American History: Smellscapes in Lima, Peru, 1535–1614
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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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Antología sobre pequeño riego. Vol. 2: Organizaciones autogestivas
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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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The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons
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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...
View articletitled, Apuntes sobre irrigación: notas sobre su organización económica en el extranjero y en el país Dos problemas de vital importancia para México: la colonización y el desarrollo de la irrigación El problema de la irrigación
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Antología sobre pequeño riego
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 365–366.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Sonya Lipsett-Rivera Unlike Wittfogel’s study and his model, the editors use the perspective of a small system—that is, irrigation on a small level. Their perspective is rooted in the question of rural development. They hope that their proposed model will provide a less dichotomous approach, one...
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Dividing New Mexico’s Waters, 1700-1912
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (2): 321–322.
Published: 01 May 1998
... most records were destroyed in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. This discussion concludes in 1912, coinciding with the appearance of large federal irrigation projects (such as the Lower Rio Grande Irrigation Project) in the state. What makes Baxter’s study unique is its exploration of the manner in which...
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Communications
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 433–436.
Published: 01 May 1996
... had gained a tenuous foothold over a few small plots of irrigated land (few, if any, larger than 10 hectares), used to grow sugarcane, together with somewhat larger tracts of surrounding dry-farmed land (50 to 200 hectares). But thousands of hectares of arable land remained in the possession...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 463–481.
Published: 01 August 1990
... to water was fundamental to farmers of the region, especially to farmers producing the predominant cash crops: wheat and sugar. Irrigation extended the growing period in areas dominated by the wet/dry seasonal pattern, and was necessary for certain plants. In Puebla, especially in the area surrounding...
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La política de irrigación en México
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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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The Desagüe Reconsidered: Environmental Dimensions of Class Conflict in Colonial Mexico
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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...
View articletitled, Dos testimonios sobre historia de los aprovechamientos hidraúlicos en México Historia de las unidades de riego: memorias de un soñador El hombre, la tierra, y el agua: las políticas en torno a la irrigación en la agricultura de México, 1885-1911
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for article titled, Dos testimonios sobre historia de los aprovechamientos hidraúlicos en México Historia de las unidades de riego: memorias de un soñador El hombre, la tierra, y el agua: las políticas en torno a la irrigación en la agricultura de México, 1885-1911
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Life, Land and Water in Ancient Peru
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (2): 191–192.
Published: 01 May 1966
..., 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 (and justifiably expensive) collection of photographs...
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Agricultura indígena: pasado y presente
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 551–552.
Published: 01 August 1996
... scholars have claimed. He presents three cases in which, he feels, natural features have been misinterpreted as drained fields, canals, and agricultural terraces. By contrast, Angel García Cook and B. Leonor Merino Carrión draw on their own extensive fieldwork to argue that chinampas, canal irrigation...
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