Conflict and cooperation: Water, floods, and social response in colonial Guanajuato, Mexico

Environmental History

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 221-247

  Endfield, Georgina H ^a   Tejedo, Isabel Fernández ^b   O'Hara, Sarah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; FLOOD; SOCIAL HISTORY;

GUANAJUATO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 2942552140     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3986085     Document Type: Article

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