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Colonial Cataclysms

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Author : Bradley Skopyk
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14

Colonial Cataclysms written by Bradley Skopyk and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with History categories.

The contiguous river basins that flowed in Tlaxcala and San Juan Teotihuacan formed part of the agricultural heart of central Mexico. As the colonial project rose to a crescendo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Indigenous farmers of central Mexico faced long-term problems standard historical treatments had attributed to drought and soil degradation set off by Old World agriculture. Instead, Bradley Skopyk argues that a global climate event called the Little Ice Age brought cold temperatures and elevated rainfall to the watersheds of Tlaxcala and Teotihuacan. With the climatic shift came cataclysmic changes: great floods, human adaptations to these deluges, and then silted wetlands and massive soil erosion. This book chases water and soil across the colonial Mexican landscape, through the fields and towns of New Spain’s Native subjects, and in and out of some of the strongest climate anomalies of the last thousand or more years. The pursuit identifies and explains the making of two unique ecological crises, the product of the interplay between climatic and anthropogenic processes. It charts how Native farmers responded to the challenges posed by these ecological rifts with creative use of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds, environmental engineering, and conflict within and beyond the courts. With a new reading of the colonial climate and by paying close attention to land, water, and agrarian ecologies forged by farmers, Skopyk argues that colonial cataclysms—forged during a critical conjuncture of truly unprecedented proportions, a crucible of human and natural forces—unhinged the customary ways in which humans organized, thought about, and used the Mexican environment. This book inserts climate, earth, water, and ecology as significant forces shaping colonial affairs and challenges us to rethink both the environmental consequences of Spanish imperialism and the role of Indigenous peoples in shaping them.

Colonial Cataclysms

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Author : Bradley Skopyk
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14

Colonial Cataclysms written by Bradley Skopyk and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with History categories.

The contiguous river basins that flowed in Tlaxcala and San Juan Teotihuacan formed part of the agricultural heart of central Mexico. As the colonial project rose to a crescendo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Indigenous farmers of central Mexico faced long-term problems standard historical treatments had attributed to drought and soil degradation set off by Old World agriculture. Instead, Bradley Skopyk argues that a global climate event called the Little Ice Age brought cold temperatures and elevated rainfall to the watersheds of Tlaxcala and Teotihuacan. With the climatic shift came cataclysmic changes: great floods, human adaptations to these deluges, and then silted wetlands and massive soil erosion. This book chases water and soil across the colonial Mexican landscape, through the fields and towns of New Spain’s Native subjects, and in and out of some of the strongest climate anomalies of the last thousand or more years. The pursuit identifies and explains the making of two unique ecological crises, the product of the interplay between climatic and anthropogenic processes. It charts how Native farmers responded to the challenges posed by these ecological rifts with creative use of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds, environmental engineering, and conflict within and beyond the courts. With a new reading of the colonial climate and by paying close attention to land, water, and agrarian ecologies forged by farmers, Skopyk argues that colonial cataclysms—forged during a critical conjuncture of truly unprecedented proportions, a crucible of human and natural forces—unhinged the customary ways in which humans organized, thought about, and used the Mexican environment. This book inserts climate, earth, water, and ecology as significant forces shaping colonial affairs and challenges us to rethink both the environmental consequences of Spanish imperialism and the role of Indigenous peoples in shaping them.

Colonial Fantasies

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Author : Susanne Zantop
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 1997-09-10

Colonial Fantasies written by Susanne Zantop and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-10 with History categories.

Traces German desires to discover, conquer and dominate ‘new worlds’ -- real and imagined-- expressed in stories and literature during the century preceding any actual German colonization.

Essays On Vietnamese Music

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Author : Trọng Từ Đào
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

Essays On Vietnamese Music written by Trọng Từ Đào and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Folk music categories.

Proceedings Of The Royal Colonial Institute

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Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902

Proceedings Of The Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Colonies categories.

Roman Catholicism In Southern Nigeria 1885 1931

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Author : Ikenga R. A. Ozigboh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Roman Catholicism In Southern Nigeria 1885 1931 written by Ikenga R. A. Ozigboh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Missions categories.

Journal Of The Royal Colonial Institute

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Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901

Journal Of The Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with categories.

Proceedings Of The Royal Colonial Institute

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Author : Royal Commonwealth Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902

Proceedings Of The Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Commonwealth Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Colonies categories.

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Philology categories.

The Colonial Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944

The Colonial Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Education categories.