Search Results for irrigate

... their efforts to subsistence food production and infrastructural improvements such as irrigation works in the hopes of weathering the effects of international blockade. Yet in reality, as this article shows, these plantations had a very limited capacity to adapt to such circumstances; very quickly, debilitating...

... incorporated this emerging energy system (now called the Boquilla-Francke grid) into two federal irrigation districts, via flows of both electricity and water. Conceptually, this article traces the relationship between material infrastructures of power and state formation in Mexico. Jonathan Hill Jr...

... recession each year.5 But the High Dam was not the first irrigation project at Aswan, and it com- Radical History Review Issue 116 (Spring 2013)  doi 1 0 . 1 2 1 5 / 0 1 6 3 6 5 4 5 1 9 6 5 6 9 3 © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 59 60  Radical History Review...

... as relations between Indian landowning agriculturalists and Indian village proprietors? What was the quality of the soil, and how much land was irrigated by wells or canals — ­the two most important criteria for determining land value in the relatively arid district? By knowing what the Delhi area...

... to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Casey Walsh, Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border . College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008...

... of the "Asiatic Mode of Production" or "Asiatic Society": 1. First, agriculture, because of climatic condi• tions, was based on large-scale irrigation and flood- control works managed by the state. Marx wrote in the New York Daily Tribune in 1853: "Climate and territorial con• ditions...

... one another.28 It is no coincidence that many ancient civilizations —  Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia — developed in river valleys, undertook extensive pro- grams of irrigation and water management, and hosted an extensive pantheon of water deities.29 Control, utility, devotion, purity, and progress...

... throughout the state and region” (54). Coal energy also transformed western agriculture by fueling steam-powered farm machinery and making possible the pumping of the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation. The biggest markets, however, were cities, depending as they did on coal energy for electrical light...

..., and the New Deal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. $40.00, From various perspectives and vantage points galore, the twentieth- century history of California agriculture has been told numerous times before. There are tomes that tell the well-worn story of how water and irrigation...

... the construction of the dam reshaped water policy in Egypt. She argues that the design phase of the massive dam project served to lay the hydrological under- pinning of Egyptian water policy throughout the twentieth century. For Cookson-­ Hills, local knowledge about water and irrigation took a backseat...

... true in a brilliant first chapter in which Rodney traces the interaction of ecology and class struggle in defining the way planter and working people experienced the problems of sea defense, drainage and irrigation on the Guyanese coast. Because much of the coastal land was both below sea...

... rights, cultural practices, and local autonomy, most of these studies have concentrated on water for irrigation.3 As a result, little atten- tion has been paid to drinking water systems, which have also, as indicated above, become important spaces for political contestation among rural and peri...

..., as needed, of semiwild outlying areas: commons, forests, heaths, moors, and swamps” (197). New World crops, especially maize and the potato, “promoted population densities that led to overuse of forests and pas- tures” (198). Rivers that were dammed and diked, irrigation that extended as far...

..., and served as agents in the prosecutions and property auctions that followed nonpayment. They reinvested their substantial earnings in commercial agriculture, buying, among other properties, an hacienda that included 2,500 irrigated hectares for barley and potatoes and 1,500 hectares of irrigated...

... and poses an ecological concern in drought-stricken California (where nearby vegetation can be highly flammable). Oakland News Now reports encampments have contributed to “loss of vegetation, compromised water quality and broken irrigation” around Lake Merritt, which cost the city $21 million to repair...

... discipline has many scales: the individual organism, empire, in this case, over the desert. The imperial mind thought in terms a population, an ecosystem, the biosphere. Ecologists of conquest, dam building, irrigation see themselves working on any one of these levels, but development, and so...

..., and irrigation.”23 I will refrain from providing further details in favor of drawing some conclu- sions about doing Web-based (and Google-dependent) research. These are in the form of “on the one hand/on the other,” or, if you like, “the good news is . . . /the bad...

... dams and irrigation facilities, expanded markets, developed mines and timber concessions, built roads, railways and ports" (197). This litany should raise several ques- tions. Even if the architects of colonial policy sincerely believed these projects were for the good of the Filipinos...

... in new fruit cultivation), even as men received almost all the new permanent jobs on state farms and cooperatives. New agricultural schools, open to females as well as males, taught women about irrigation and how to drive tractors. Nonetheless, despite the myriad ways rural women were...

... by irrigated water. Regional artists’ work reflected this reality, showing heavy snows pushing against wooden fence posts, ranchers and stock labor- ing inside snugly fenced corrals, and sunsets over barbed wire. Indeed, there were a number of other community-­organized events and exhibits related...