Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have
made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce …

Capitalism, understood as a world-ecology that joins accumulation, power, and nature in
dialectical unity, has been adept at evading so-called Malthusian dynamics through an …

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 …

Éste es un libro importante. Más de lo que tal vez le parezca a quien le eche una ojeada
superficial, que puede verse conducido a engaño por su aparente falta de pretensiones. Y …

Madre Maria de San Jose (1656-1719)—mystic, chronicler, and co-founder of an
Augustinian convent—inscribed her life story within the model of spiritual autobiography set …

'Extreme'weather events such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, frosts and unusually high or
low temperatures can have immense and immediate social, economic and environmental …

¿ Por qué detenerse para observar a Puebla en 1737? La respuesta forma parte de una
larga historia que comenzó en 1984 cuando me sumergí en los laberintos de la historia …

DROUGHTS AND FLOODS are as much social constructions as physical occurrences. In
recent years, historians have begun to explore the ways natural disasters are in fact shaped …

This article argues that, in Mexico, the Manila Galleon fostered local manufacturing,
promoted regional trade networks, and enabled Indians and people of mixed ancestry to …

At the end of the eighteenth century, the community of Saltillo in northeastern Mexico was a
thriving hub of commerce. Over the previous hundred years its population had doubled to …