Virtuous Waters
Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 9. March 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-0-520-29173-7 (ISBN)
Description
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Virtuous Waters is the first study of mineral waters and bathing in Mexico. It traces the evolving ideas about these waters, from European contact to the present, in order to shed new light on human-environment relations in the modern world. Our relation to water is among the most urgent of global issues, as increasing scarcity and pollution threaten food shortages, deteriorating public health, and the collapse of aquatic ecosystems. Drawing on ideas from political ecology, the author brings together an analysis of the shifts in the concept of water, with a material history of environments, infrastructures and bathing. The book analyzes a range of issues concerning complex "water cultures" that have formed around Mexican groundwaters over time, and suggests that this understanding might also help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty first century.
Reviews / Votes
"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 *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 map, 24 photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-29173-7 (9780520291737)
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E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
University of California Press
€12.49
Available for download
Person
Casey Walsh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border.
Content
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
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