Thanks to creative uses of the environment, Xochimilco's residents preserved their culture and society in the face of colonial disruption.

Richard M. Conway is Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University. A historian of colonial Latin America, his research focuses on the social and environmental history of Mexico.

Introduction; 1. Ecological and Political Landscapes; 2. Land; 3. Canoes and Commerce; 4. Demography and Society; 5. Crisis in the Seventeenth Century; 6. Late-Colonial Watersheds; 7. Nahuatl Sources from Xochimilco; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.