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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew VitzPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780822370406ISBN 10: 0822370409 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 27 April 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I. The Making of a Metropolitan Environment 1. The Porfirian Metropolitan Environment 19 2. Revolution and the Metropolitan Environment 51 II. Spaces of a Metropolitan Environment 3. Water and Hygiene in the City 81 4. The City and Its Forests 109 5. Desiccation, Dust, and Engineered Waterscapes 136 6. The Political Ecology of Working-Class Settlements 164 7. Industrialization and Environmental Technocracy 193 Conclusion 218 Notes 235 Bibliography 291 Index 321ReviewsBased on exhaustive archival research and engaging theoretically with new scholarship in political ecology and urban environmentalism, A City on a Lake adds critical new dimensions to the history of modern Mexico. Matthew Vitz transcends arid dichotomies between urban and agrarian history, and deftly interrogates the once-sacrosanct watershed of the Mexican Revolution. Like few other studies, A City on the Lake demonstrates how ecological transformation and the struggle for environmental rights factored importantly into outcomes of the Mexican Revolution's modernizing project of capitalist development. This exciting monograph should establish Vitz in the vanguard of Mexico's and Latin America's new environmental and urban historians. -- Gilbert M. Joseph, Farnam Professor of History and International Studies, Yale University Matthew Vitz's focus how the relationship among Mexico City's inhabitants, ecology, the state, and the city's political figures played out in policies of land reform and modernization is absolutely novel. And to my knowledge, this is the first book in English to address in detail what happened in the city itself, in effect bringing the rurally centered analysis of land reform into the city, which is itself is a major contribution. Conceptually and analytically complex, yet crisp and clear, Vitz gives us a new way to understand a familiar period in Mexican history. -- Vera S. Candiani, author of * Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City * Tracing the relationship of social and ecological change during Mexico City's crucial stage of development in the early twentieth century, A City on a Lake is the most compelling environmental history of modern Mexico City available. -- Christopher R. Boyer, author of * Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico * Matthew Vitz's focus how the relationship among Mexico City's inhabitants, ecology, the state, and the city's political figures played out in policies of land reform and modernization is absolutely novel. And to my knowledge, this is the first book in English to address in detail what happened in the city itself, in effect bringing the rurally centered analysis of land reform into the city, which is itself is a major contribution. Conceptually and analytically complex, yet crisp and clear, Vitz gives us a new way to understand a familiar period in Mexican history. -- Vera S. Candiani, author of * Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City * Tracing the relationship of social and ecological change during Mexico City's crucial stage of development in the early twentieth century, A City on a Lake is the most compelling environmental history of modern Mexico City available. -- Christopher R. Boyer, author of * Political Landscapes: Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico * Author InformationMatthew Vitz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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