Title Islands in the lake : environment and ethnohistory in Xochimilco, New Spain / Richard M. Conway, Montclair State University

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Cambridge Latin American studies ; 124 Cambridge Latin American studies ; 124. Summary "Over the course of several millennia, the mutual influences between Native societies and their natural surroundings profoundly affected the history of communities in and around Lakes Xochimilco and Chalco. Early agricultural societies intervened in the lacustrine environment through irrigation projects which in turn encouraged population growth and enabled the rise of complex societies. During these changing, interconnected ecological and sociopolitical processes, the Xochimilca, Cuitlahuaca, and Mixquica and other ethnic groups settled in the southern lake areas. There they adopted chinampa cultivation and contributed to dramatic demographic growth and urbanization in the late Postclassic period (ca. 1350-1521 C.E.), which culminated in the rise of Tenochtitlan and, with it, the Aztec Triple Alliance"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2021) Subject Horticulture -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History Traditional farming -- Environmental aspects -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History HISTORY / Latin America / General. Horticulture Traditional farming -- Environmental aspects SUBJECT Xochimilco (Mexico City, Mexico) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82147203 Subject Mexico -- Mexico City Mexico -- Mexico City -- Xochimilco Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021025422 ISBN 9781009008563 1009008560 9781009003957 100900395X

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