Deluges of grandeur: Water, territory, and power on northwest Mexico's Río Mayo, 1880-1910

Water Alternatives

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-53

  Banister, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Landscape; Mexico; Political geography; Porfiriato; Power; State formation; Territoriality; Water governance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ARID REGION; CENTRALIZATION; COLONIZATION; FEDERAL SYSTEM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; IRRIGATION; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL POWER; TERRITORIALITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

MAYO RIVER; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA;

CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 79551664544     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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