Casey Walsh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border.

• IllustrationsPreface1 Waters/Cultures2 Bathing and Domination in the Early Modern Atlantic World3 Policing Waters and Baths in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City4 Enlightenment Science of Mineral Springs5 Groundwater and Hydraulic Opulence in the Late Nineteenth Century6 Chemistry, Biology, and the Heterogeneity of Modern Waters7 Dispossession and Bottling after the Revolution8 Spa Tourism in Twentieth-Century Mexico9 Virtuous Waters in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

"Beyond its efficacy as a long narrative of the political ecology of Mexican waters, Casey Walsh’s Virtuous Waters serves as a critical pedagogical resource for environmental humanities scholars writing in the all-encompassing context of environmental crisis that pervades our twenty-first-century reality and threatens our future."

Casey Walsh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border.

• IllustrationsPreface1 Waters/Cultures2 Bathing and Domination in the Early Modern Atlantic World3 Policing Waters and Baths in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City4 Enlightenment Science of Mineral Springs5 Groundwater and Hydraulic Opulence in the Late Nineteenth Century6 Chemistry, Biology, and the Heterogeneity of Modern Waters7 Dispossession and Bottling after the Revolution8 Spa Tourism in Twentieth-Century Mexico9 Virtuous Waters in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

"Beyond its efficacy as a long narrative of the political ecology of Mexican waters, Casey Walsh’s Virtuous Waters serves as a critical pedagogical resource for environmental humanities scholars writing in the all-encompassing context of environmental crisis that pervades our twenty-first-century reality and threatens our future."

Casey Walsh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border.

• IllustrationsPreface1 Waters/Cultures2 Bathing and Domination in the Early Modern Atlantic World3 Policing Waters and Baths in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City4 Enlightenment Science of Mineral Springs5 Groundwater and Hydraulic Opulence in the Late Nineteenth Century6 Chemistry, Biology, and the Heterogeneity of Modern Waters7 Dispossession and Bottling after the Revolution8 Spa Tourism in Twentieth-Century Mexico9 Virtuous Waters in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

"Beyond its efficacy as a long narrative of the political ecology of Mexican waters, Casey Walsh’s Virtuous Waters serves as a critical pedagogical resource for environmental humanities scholars writing in the all-encompassing context of environmental crisis that pervades our twenty-first-century reality and threatens our future."