'An original study combining environmental history and ethnohistory, Islands in the Lake is a major contribution to colonial Mexican history.' Susan Kellogg, Hispanic American Historical Review
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.