Man, Land, and Water : Mexico's Farmlands Irrigation Policies 1885-1911

Map 1. Rivers Reconnoitered by the Mexican Government before 1911. long years in the presidency would also come within the government's coercive power. So also, more indirectly, would the millions of poor people, many of whom would be deprived of their lands or of their occupations as artisans and forced to work on the nearby estates of the new commercialagricultural barons of modern Mexico. During the late 1870s and into the 1880s Porfirio Díaz, and his nominee Manual González, who held the presidency from 1880 to 1884, made a few false starts in trying to regulate the monetary system. They did not deal Nonetheless, the recommendations of these "complex" analyses did not run closely parallel. It is here where we find so poignantly displayed the difficulties being faced by the government as well as by farmers just before 1910, and it is to these more complex analyses that we now turn our attention. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.