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"Beyond its efficacy as a long narrative of the political ecology of Mexican waters, Casey Walsh’s Virtuous Waters serves as a critical pedagogical resource for environmental humanities scholars writing in the all-encompassing context of environmental crisis that pervades our twenty-first-century reality and threatens our future." * Hispanic American Historical Review *

Table of Contents
Illustrations
Preface

1 Waters/Cultures
2 Bathing and Domination in the Early Modern Atlantic World
3 Policing Waters and Baths in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City
4 Enlightenment Science of Mineral Springs
5 Groundwater and Hydraulic Opulence in the Late Nineteenth Century
6 Chemistry, Biology, and the Heterogeneity of Modern Waters
7 Dispossession and Bottling after the Revolution
8 Spa Tourism in Twentieth-Century Mexico
9 Virtuous Waters in the Twenty-First Century

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/9/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520291737, 978-0520291737
      ISBN10: 0520291735

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Beyond its efficacy as a long narrative of the political ecology of Mexican waters, Casey Walsh’s Virtuous Waters serves as a critical pedagogical resource for environmental humanities scholars writing in the all-encompassing context of environmental crisis that pervades our twenty-first-century reality and threatens our future." * Hispanic American Historical Review *

      Table of Contents
      Illustrations
      Preface

      1 Waters/Cultures
      2 Bathing and Domination in the Early Modern Atlantic World
      3 Policing Waters and Baths in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City
      4 Enlightenment Science of Mineral Springs
      5 Groundwater and Hydraulic Opulence in the Late Nineteenth Century
      6 Chemistry, Biology, and the Heterogeneity of Modern Waters
      7 Dispossession and Bottling after the Revolution
      8 Spa Tourism in Twentieth-Century Mexico
      9 Virtuous Waters in the Twenty-First Century

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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