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Climate and society in colonial Mexico : a study in vulnerability /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Endfield, Georgina H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Series:RGS-IBG book series.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Mexico > History.
Water-supply > Mexico > History.
Subsistence economy > Mexico > History.
Mexico > Environmental conditions.
Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
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Table of Contents:
  • A vulnerable society
  • Climate, culture and conquest : north, south and central Mexico in the pre-European and contact period
  • Exploring the anatomy of vulnerability in colonial Mexico
  • Responding to crisis : vulnerability and adaptive capacity in colonial Mexico
  • Dearth, deluge and disputes : negotiating and litigating water and climate in colonial Mexico
  • Illusory prosperity : economic growth and subsistence crisis in the disastrous eighteenth century
  • Regional, national and global dimensions of vulnerability and crisis in colonial Mexico.