{"product_id":"climate-and-society-in-colonial-mexico-9781405145831","title":"Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era,  Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability  examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This impressive archival study on Mexico provides a historical perspective on environmental change and the cultural response in such detail and depth that it will be used by many disciplines as global warming produces more frequent and devastating climate events in Mesoamerica and elsewhere. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e, February 2009)  \u003cp\u003e\"Mexico is well known for its vulnerability to a variety of disasters, ranging from droughts and floods to devastating epidemics. Using extensive archival resources in Mexico and Spain, environmental historian Endfield (Univ. of Nottingham) focuses on three regions with their diverse environments--the Rio Conchos Basin in the state of Chihuahua, Guanajuato and the Chichimec territory, and the Valley of Oaxaca--to compare and contrast the impact of climate crises on the economic and social-political systems of the agrarian Indian and Spanish societies of colonial Mexico from 1521 to 1820. The author discusses climate disasters of the late pre-Hispanic period, as well as the prehistory of the three study regions. Repeated climate events resulted in societal disruption, demographic changes, and conflict. Endfield shows how the societies in these three regions coped with and adapted to the risks and hazards of extreme weather over the centuries. This impressive archival study on Mexico provides a historical perspective on environmental change and the cultural response in such detail and depth that it will be used by many disciplines as global warming produces more frequent and devastating climate events in Mesoamerica and elsewhere.\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eJ. B. Richardson III, University of Pittsburgh,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChoice,\u003c\/i\u003e February 2009) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Tables and Figures.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries Editors' Preface.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 A Vulnerable Society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Vulnerabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate Change and the 'Double-Sided' Structure of Vulnerability 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploring Climate and Society in Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate History and Vulnerability in Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Studies and Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South and Central Mexico in the Pre-European and Contact Period.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnvironmental Marginality and Society in the Conchos Basin, Chihuahua.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuanajuato and the Chichimec Territory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower and Political Growth in the Central Valley of Oaxaca.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Exploring the Anatomy of Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tools of Conquest and Colonization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of Regional Colonial Political Economies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimatic Variability and Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico: A Preview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Responding to Crisis: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Colonial Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Economic and Institutional Responses to Climate and Crisis in Colonial Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpeculation and Scarcity: Capitalizing on Climate Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrade in Grains: Providing for the 'Engines' of the Colonial Political Economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTribute, Food Aid and the Supernatural: Appealing to a Common Sense of Loss.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Compadrazgo', Community Engagement and Public Works.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Most sensitive and saddening events': Flood Risk and Social Capital Response in Colonial Guanajuato.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Great floods' and 'Strong winds': Damaging Events, Adaptation and 'Non-Adaptation' in Colonial Oaxaca.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponding Strategically: Climate, Consciousness and Experimentation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Dearth, Deluge and Disputes: Negotiating and Litigating Water and Climate in Colonial Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWater and Local 'Everyday Conflicts' in the Country and City.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegional Resistance: Drought, Disease and Rebellion in Northern Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVulnerability, Riots and Rebellions: Rare Events or 'Tipping Points'?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Illusory Prosperity: Economic Growth and Subsistence Crisis in the Disastrous Eighteenth Century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecline and Depression in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Boom and Bust: Absolutism and Globalization in Late Colonial Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A time of calamity': A Synthesis of Climate and Crises in Late Colonial Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Crisis to Insurrection: Vulnerability and Popular Unrest in the Early Nineteenth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Regional, National and Global Dimensions of Vulnerability and Crisis in Colonial Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProlonged Drought and the Conditions of Crisis in Late Colonial Chihuahua.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrought, Risk and the Social Construction of Flooding in the Bajío.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResilience and the Rare Event: Climate, Society and Human Choice in the Indigenous South.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrises in Context and Historical 'Double Exposure'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClosing Comments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default 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