Pity the Plumeria TreePity the poor plumeria tree:no white petals again this year;and again its green, oblong leavesfall before their prime, exposeits skeletal frame like a desert fossil.We hadn’t asked all that muchof the plumeria---neither the shadenor the elegance the others give---only that it be a privacy screenbetween our patio and the passersby.Perhaps it thinks itself the orphanw...

This book provides detailed histories of colonial water systems in four localities in the Mexican Baja-o-Celaya, Salvatierra, Valle de Santiago, and Queretaro. It includes studies of irrigated agriculture, hydraulic technology, and water law in the region. The local histories richly illustrate, through the patterns of irrigation, the interactions b