By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications. Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico s rich colonial archives Offers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate change Considers three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural, economic, and environmental characteristics

By considering three case study regions in Mexico during theColonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study inVulnerability examines the complex interrelationship betweenclimate and society and its contemporary implications.* Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizingon Mexico's rich colonial archives* Offers a unique approach by combining geographical and historicperspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns overclimate change* Considers three case study regions in Mexico with verydifferent cultural, economic, and environmentalcharacteristics

List of Tables and Figures.Series Editors' Preface.Acknowledgements.1 A Vulnerable Society.Introduction.Changing Vulnerabilities.Climate Change and the 'Double-Sided' Structure of Vulnerability5Exploring Climate and Society in Mexico.Climate History and Vulnerability in Mexico.Case Studies and Approach.2 Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South and CentralMexico in the Pre-European and Contact Period.Environmental Marginality and Society in the Conchos BasinChihuahua.Guanajuato and the Chichimec Territory.Power and Political Growth in the Central Valley of Oaxaca.3 Exploring the Anatomy of Vulnerability in ColonialMexico.Introduction.The Tools of Conquest and Colonization.The Emergence of Regional Colonial Political Economies.Climatic Variability and Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico: APreview.4 Responding to Crisis: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacityin Colonial Mexico.Introduction.Moral Economic and Institutional Responses to Climate and Crisisin Colonial Mexico.Speculation and Scarcity: Capitalizing on Climate Knowledge.Trade in Grains: Providing for the 'Engines' of the ColonialPolitical Economy.Tribute, Food Aid and the Supernatural: Appealing to a CommonSense of Loss.'Compadrazgo', Community Engagement and Public Works.'Most sensitive and saddening events': Flood Risk and SocialCapital Response in Colonial Guanajuato.'Great floods' and 'Strong winds': Damaging Events, Adaptationand 'Non-Adaptation' in Colonial Oaxaca.Responding Strategically: Climate, Consciousness andExperimentation.5 Dearth, Deluge and Disputes: Negotiating and LitigatingWater and Climate in Colonial Mexico.Introduction.Water and Local 'Everyday Conflicts' in the Country andCity.Regional Resistance: Drought, Disease and Rebellion in NorthernMexico.Vulnerability, Riots and Rebellions: Rare Events or 'TippingPoints'?6 Illusory Prosperity: Economic Growth and Subsistence Crisisin the Disastrous Eighteenth Century.Introduction.Decline and Depression in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.Economic Boom and Bust: Absolutism and Globalization in LateColonial Mexico.'A time of calamity': A Synthesis of Climate and Crises in LateColonial Mexico.From Crisis to Insurrection: Vulnerability and Popular Unrest inthe Early Nineteenth Century.7 Regional, National and Global Dimensions of Vulnerabilityand Crisis in Colonial Mexico.Introduction.Prolonged Drought and the Conditions of Crisis in Late ColonialChihuahua.Drought, Risk and the Social Construction of Flooding in theBajío.Resilience and the Rare Event: Climate, Society and Human Choicein the Indigenous South.Crises in Context and Historical 'Double Exposure'.Closing Comments.Notes.Bibliography.Index.