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Damico, Denise Holladay.

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"El agua es la vida" (water is life): Water conflict and conquest in nineteenth century New Mexico.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"El agua es la vida" (water is life): Water conflict and conquest in nineteenth century New Mexico./
Author:	Damico, Denise Holladay.
Description:	247 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3284.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-08A.
Subject:	History, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3319825
ISBN:	9780549701170

"El agua es la vida" (water is life): Water conflict and conquest in nineteenth century New Mexico.
Damico, Denise Holladay.

"El agua es la vida" (water is life): Water conflict and conquest in nineteenth century New Mexico. - 247 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3284.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2008.

The simple truth encompassed in the Spanish dicho, or saying, “El agua es la vida (water is life)” provides inspiration for this study of nineteenth century New Mexico. Water was so scarce, and disputes over the precious resource so common, that such disputes shed light on who had economic, social, and political power at the local level. This dissertation uses conflict over water to study how the U.S. conquest of New Mexico affected everyday life, exploring two themes central to western history: aridity and conquest.

ISBN: 9780549701170Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017580
History, Latin American.

"El agua es la vida" (water is life): Water conflict and conquest in nineteenth century New Mexico.
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520 $a The simple truth encompassed in the Spanish dicho, or saying, “El agua es la vida (water is life)” provides inspiration for this study of nineteenth century New Mexico. Water was so scarce, and disputes over the precious resource so common, that such disputes shed light on who had economic, social, and political power at the local level. This dissertation uses conflict over water to study how the U.S. conquest of New Mexico affected everyday life, exploring two themes central to western history: aridity and conquest.
520 $a The U.S. conquest, after the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), brought a new legal system and individuals who sought to turn water into a commodity. This conception of water and its relationship to society differed radically from that of New Mexico's Hispanos and Pueblo Indians. Though these two groups had very different cultures, and fought one another for access to water, both were mostly subsistence farmers and ranchers. When these farmers controlled the terms of water disputes, they relied upon customary practices that centered on the common good and the survival of the community.
520 $a How people used water determined how they fought over it, as four case reveal. Chapter Two studies the Martínez family of northern New Mexico's Taos Valley, documenting how a powerful elite could ensure continuity of water allocation practice. Chapter Three turns to two Pueblos in west/central New Mexico, Acoma and Laguna, where Native farmers used the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. legal systems in their dispute over land and water. Chapter Four examines the Mesilla Valley of far southern New Mexico, where the Río Grande held different meanings for Hispano farmers and Anglo investors. Chapter Five studies the failure of corporate irrigation throughout late nineteenth-century New Mexico.
520 $a Water disputes in nineteenth-century demonstrate that the U.S. conquest wrought more than changes to maps or treaties. The continued prevalence of irrigation ditches, however, reminds us that acequias and irrigation ditches remain viable. This coexistence of old and new transcends simplistic explanatory devices of “cultural differences” and can point toward to the future as it uncovers the past.
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