Virtuous waters : mineral springs, bathing, and infrastructure in Mexico /

Virtuous waters : mineral springs, bathing, and infrastructure in Mexico /

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Author / Creator:	Walsh, Casey, author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xiii, 210 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mineral waters -- Mexico -- Mexico City. Baths -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History. Groundwater -- Mexico -- Mexico City. Water -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History. Water resources development -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- 21st century. Water-supply -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- 21st century. Baths. Groundwater. Mineral waters. Water. Water resources development. Water-supply. Mineral Waters -- history. Mexico -- Mexico City. Mexico. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11546683

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ISBN:	9780520291737 0520291735 9780520965393
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Virtuous Waters is the first study of mineral waters and bathing in Mexico. It traces the evolving ideas about these waters, from European contact to the present, in order to shed new light on human-environment relations in the modern world. Our relation to water is among the most urgent of global issues, as increasing scarcity and pollution threaten food shortages, deteriorating public health, and the collapse of aquatic ecosystems. Drawing on ideas from political ecology, the author brings together an analysis of the shifts in the concept of water and a material history of environments, infrastructures, and bathing. The book analyzes a range of issues concerning complex "water cultures" that have formed around Mexican groundwaters over time and suggests that this understanding might also help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Waters / Cultures
Bathing and domination in the early modern Atlantic world
Policing waters and baths in eighteenth century Mexico City
Enlightenment science of mineral springs
Groundwater and hydraulic opulence in the late nineteenth century
Chemistry, biology and the heterogeneity of modern waters
Dispossession and bottling after the revolution
Spa tourism in twentieth century Mexico
Virtuous waters in the twenty first century.