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Strength from the Waters makes important contributions to modern Mexican history, environmental history, and ethnohistory, especially with its fascinating oral histories of Mayo elders. -Mikael Wolfe, author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

Strength from the Waters skillfully melds ethnohistory with environmental history to chronicle the Mayo people of northwestern Mexico's tenacious defense of the Fuerte River, the source of their livelihood and spiritual existence. . . . By incorporating Indigenous voices and tapping new archival sources, Mestaz expertly tells a story of Indigenous persistence against a water-hungry postrevolutionary and postwar state. -Ben Fallaw, author of Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico Strength from the Waters makes important contributions to modern Mexican history, environmental history, and ethnohistory, especially with its fascinating oral histories of Mayo elders. -Mikael Wolfe, author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico

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James V. Mestaz is an assistant professor of Latin American history at Sonoma State University.

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