{"product_id":"climate-and-society-in-colonial-mexico-isbn-9781405145824","title":"Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico","description":"By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, \u003ci\u003eClimate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability\u003c\/i\u003e examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico’s rich colonial archives\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate change\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural, economic, and environmental characteristics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\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 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\u003eSumming Up\u003c\/b\u003e: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- \u003ci\u003eJ. B. Richardson III, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eChoice,\u003c\/i\u003e February 2009) \u003cb\u003eGeorgina H. Endfield\u003c\/b\u003e is a Reader in Environmental History in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. She has published papers in a wide variety of journals, including the \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the Association of American Geographers\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers\u003c\/i\u003e, and is winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is editor of the journal\u003ci\u003e Environment and History\u003c\/i\u003e.  The relationship between climate and society is complex. Time and again history has shown that responses to climatic changes and extreme weather events vary greatly between different social groups. A variety of factors – demographic, social, political and economic – influence how a society perceives, responds to, and copes with extreme weather events. With its series of floods and frosts, droughts and hurricanes, few societies have had their resilience and resourcefulness tested like Mexico’s in her colonial era. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWithin this historical framework, \u003ci\u003eClimate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability\u003c\/i\u003e provides a timely examination of the human impact of climate change and its contemporary implications. By considering three broadly differentiated case study regions – Chihuahua’s arid Conchos Basin, the lush Oaxaca Valley, and Guanajuato in the Bajío of Mexico – the text offers valuable insights into how different societies articulate knowledge about climate and the environment and how they respond to climatic variability. Capitalizing on Mexico’s rich colonial archives – many published here for the first time – the study provides a unique historical perspective into the complex interrelationships between climate and vulnerable societies. By examining the past, \u003ci\u003eClimate and Society in Colonial Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e offers valuable insights into contemporary climatic changes, environmental impacts, the vulnerability of societies, and our increasing concerns for the future of our planet.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This book provides a fascinating and empirically rich account of how vulnerabilities to variations in climate, especially to drought and flood, were created and experienced over several centuries. Based on meticulous work in the historical archives, Georgina H. Endfield gives a distinctive long term perspective on the interactions between nature and political economy that produced food crises, water conflicts and devastating flood losses in colonial Mexico, and which echo down the years to illuminate our understanding of the new crises of vulnerability and adaptation in a warming world.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eDiana Liverman,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oxford  \u003cp\u003e\"With a deft and informed pen, Endfield carries the reader rapidly through the escalating crises of colonial Mexico. Based on rich documentation Endfield sketches environmental disasters and epidemics, the looming problem of population growth and subsistence shortfalls, and the illusion of economic growth. She illustrates, in a responsible and fascinating way, how vulnerability and human response can serve as an empirical and conceptual approach to study causality.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eKarl Butzer,\u003c\/b\u003e The University of Texas at Austin\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988928577765,"sku":"NP9781405145824","price":44.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405145824.jpg?v=1761782089","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/climate-and-society-in-colonial-mexico-isbn-9781405145824","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}