Infrastructure and Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1880–1970

Conference on Latin American History 54
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Forum Room (Omni Shoreham)
Chair:
Anna Alexander, Georgia Southern University
Papers:
“Scientific” Methods and Indigenous Knowledge: Irrigation and Water Management Systems in the Semi-Arid Southern Pampas of Argentina, 1880–1940
Yovanna Pineda, University of Central Florida
The Fight for Access: Road Building, Legal Battles, and the Environment in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1922–38
Michael Kirkland Bess, University of Texas at El Paso
The New Deal in Puerto Rico: Rural Hydro-Electrification and the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration
Geoff Burrows, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Blind Spots in the Road Builder’s Bible: Nature’s Role in the Construction of Peru’s Marginal Highway
Tucker Sharon, University of British Columbia
Comment:
Samuel J. Martland, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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