Reining in the Rio Grande - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reining in the Rio Grande write by Fred M. Phillips. This book was released on 2015-07-15. Reining in the Rio Grande available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price. This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river. From the perspectives of law, development, tradition, and geology, the authors weigh what has been gained and lost by reining in the Rio Grande.
Fluid Geographies
Fluid Geographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fluid Geographies write by K. Maria D. Lane. This book was released on 2024-07-02. Fluid Geographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transition from a community-based to an expert-led system of water management during the pre-statehood era. To understand this major shift, Lane carefully examines the primary conflict of the time, which pitted Indigenous and Nuevomexicano communities, with their long-established systems of irrigation management, against Anglo-American settlers, who benefitted from centralized bureaucratic management of water. The newcomers’ system eventually became settled law, but water disputes have continued throughout the district courts of New Mexico’s Rio Grande watershed ever since. Using a fine-grained analysis of legislative texts and nearly two hundred district court cases, Lane analyzes evolving cultural patterns and attitudes toward water use and management in a pivotal time in New Mexico’s history. Illuminating complex themes for a general audience, Fluid Geographies helps readers understand how settler colonialism constructed a racialized understanding of scientific expertise and legitimized the dispossession of nonwhite communities in New Mexico.
Fruit, Fiber, and Fire
Fruit, Fiber, and Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fruit, Fiber, and Fire write by William R. Carleton. This book was released on 2021-06. Fruit, Fiber, and Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fruit, Fiber, and Fire explores the industrialization of apples, cotton, and chile to illustrate how agriculture has spurred migrations of plants and people and in turn shaped the culture of twentieth-century New Mexico.
Regional Cultures and Mortality in America
Regional Cultures and Mortality in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Cultures and Mortality in America write by Stephen J. Kunitz. This book was released on 2015. Regional Cultures and Mortality in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines how state government policies and their historic beginnings have present-day effects on their residents' political lives and on population health, especially for marginalized groups.
The New American West in Literature and the Arts
The New American West in Literature and the Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New American West in Literature and the Arts write by Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo. This book was released on 2020-05-12. The New American West in Literature and the Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the American West is that of a journey. It is the story of a movement, of a geographical and human transition, of the delineation of a route that would soon become a rooted myth. The story of the American West has similarly journeyed across boundaries, in a two-way movement, sometimes feeding the idea of that myth, sometimes challenging it. This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe, in Spain, where the myth traveled, was received, assimilated, and re-presented. It intends to travel back to the West, in a two-way cross-cultural journey, which will hopefully contribute to the delineation of the New—always self-renewing—American West. It includes the work of authors of both sides of the Atlantic ocean who propose a cross-cultural, transdisciplinary dialogue upon the idea, the geography and the representation of the American West.
