Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico

Casey Walsh

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2018

Virtuous Waters

Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico

Casey Walsh

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520965393

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Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a wide range of waters across five centuries in Mexico. Casey Walsh uses political ecology to bring together an analysis of shifting scientific, religious and political understandings of waters and a material history of social formations, environments, and infrastructures. The book shows that while modern concepts and infrastructures have come to dominate both the hydrosphere and the scholarly literature on water, longstanding popular understandings and engagements with these heterogeneous liquids have been reproduced as part of the same process. Attention to these dynamics can help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century.

Author / Editor information

Walsh Casey :

Casey Walsh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Waters/Cultures Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Bathing and Domination in the Early Modern Atlantic World Open Access Download PDF	15
3. Policing Waters and Baths in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City Open Access Download PDF	34
4. Enlightenment Science of Mineral Springs Open Access Download PDF	50
5. Groundwater and Hydraulic Opulence in the Late Nineteenth Century Open Access Download PDF	67
6. Chemistry, Biology, and the Heterogeneity of Modern Waters Open Access Download PDF	91
7. Dispossession and Bottling after the Revolution Open Access Download PDF	118
8. Spa Tourism in Twentieth-Century Mexico Open Access Download PDF	137
9. Virtuous Waters in the Twenty-First Century Open Access Download PDF	155
Notes Open Access Download PDF	163
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	181
Index Open Access Download PDF	201

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 226

eBook

Published: March 9, 2018
ISBN: 9780520965393