124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Public Works, State Formation, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Public Works, State Formation, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Mexico

AHA Session 227
Conference on Latin American History 44

Sunday, January 10, 2010: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

Columbia 3 (Marriott)

Chair:

Myrna I. Santiago, Saint Mary's College of California

Papers:

The Lands with Which We Struggle: Land Reclamation and Revolution in the Lake Texcoco Basin, 1900–50
Matthew Vitz, New York University

Dam(m/n)ing the Agrarian Reform: The Politics of Irrigation, Public Works, and State Formation in La Laguna, Mexico, 1936–46
Mikael Dov Wolfe, University of California, San Diego

Connecting is Civilizing: Road Construction, Modernity, and the State in Mexico, 1925–60
Ben C. Fulwider, Georgetown University

Dammed and Flooded: The Papaloapan River Project and the Morality of Nativist Environmentalism in Oaxaca
Patrick H. Cosby, University of Florida

Comment:

The Audience

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