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Dreaming of Dry Land: Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City by Vera S. Candiani (review)

Vera Candiani’s study of the desagüe, the project to drain water from the basin ofMexico and hopefully inhibit flooding in Mexico City, treats the project from its inception in the sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century. Her exploration promises to bring new conversations, integrations, and questions to the study of New Spain. It is deeply researched, carefully argued, and clearly written. It focuses on the project and its promoters, designers, builders, and workers; in the process it opens new perspectives on the viceregal regime and Mexico City, and on the indigenous peoples who were throughout the majority of the producers and workers across the basin.