Mikael Wolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikael Wolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikael |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfe |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nuestro viaje a la Luna
Land, Liberty, and Water
There is a voluminous literature on Zapatismo during the Mexican Revolution. There is far less, however, on postrevolutionary Zapatismo, especially its hydraulic dimension. After all, the Zapatistas did not just demand land; they also demanded water, without which land was useless for agriculture. And in so doing, Zapatista villagers changed their relationship not only to their environment but also to the federal government.This is the story that…
Cuba’s "Battle of Spare Parts" Against the US Blockade (1961-1964)
Dialogues
A Revolution Is a Force More Powerful Than Nature”
This article examines how the severe drought of 1961–62 and the fury of Hurricane Flora in October 1963 influenced the Cuban Revolution socioeconomically and geopolitically in the crucial first five years of Fidel Castro’s consolidation of power. Based on extensive research in US and Cuban newspapers and journals, declassified US government documents, the speeches, interviews, and writings of Cuban revolutionaries and foreign advisers, oral histo…
The Historical Dynamics of Mexico’s Groundwater Crisis in La Laguna
This article examines the historical dynamics by which Mexico’s groundwater resources were knowingly depleted and contaminated from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using the paradigmatic arid north central “Laguna” region as case study, it documents how Mexican engineers alternately warned of the dangers of aquifer depletion and profited from the business opportunities “Mexicanization” of groundwater pumping technology provided via Import Substitution In…
Considering the Alternatives
Other| February 01 2013 Considering the Alternatives: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Agriculture, Water, and Migration in Mexico under State Developmentalism and Neoliberalism Mikael Wolfe Mikael Wolfe Mikael Wolfe is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the C…
Agua, poder urbano y metabolismo social
Agua, poder urbano y metabolismo social makes an important contribution to the understudied field of urban environmental history in Mexico and Latin America. The volume is the result of two years of diverse workshops to define a new line of urban research on the part of the Cuerpo Académico Sociedad, Ciudad y Territorio, siglos XVI – XXI at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Edited by Rosalva Loreto López, the book is comprised of an …
Land Reform in Puerto Rico
Ismael García-Colón’s Land Reform in Puerto Rico: Modernizing the Colonial State, 1941 – 1969 is a generally well-written and cogent historical anthropology of Puerto Rico’s transformation from a primarily agricultural to urban society. García-Colón examines in detail the Popular Democratic Party’s (PPD) milestone Land Reform Law of 1941 and the Agrarian Resettlement Program (ARP) that it institutionalized for decades thereafter. In particular, h…
The Historical Dynamics of Mexico’s Groundwater Crisis in La Laguna
This article examines the historical dynamics by which Mexico’s groundwater resources were knowingly depleted and contaminated from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using the paradigmatic arid north central “Laguna” region as case study, it documents how Mexican engineers alternately warned of the dangers of aquifer depletion and profited from the business opportunities “Mexicanization” of groundwater pumping technology provided via Import Substitution In…
A Revolution Is a Force More Powerful Than Nature”
This article examines how the severe drought of 1961–62 and the fury of Hurricane Flora in October 1963 influenced the Cuban Revolution socioeconomically and geopolitically in the crucial first five years of Fidel Castro’s consolidation of power. Based on extensive research in US and Cuban newspapers and journals, declassified US government documents, the speeches, interviews, and writings of Cuban revolutionaries and foreign advisers, oral histo…
Agua, poder urbano y metabolismo social
Agua, poder urbano y metabolismo social makes an important contribution to the understudied field of urban environmental history in Mexico and Latin America. The volume is the result of two years of diverse workshops to define a new line of urban research on the part of the Cuerpo Académico Sociedad, Ciudad y Territorio, siglos XVI – XXI at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Edited by Rosalva Loreto López, the book is comprised of an …
Land Reform in Puerto Rico
Ismael García-Colón’s Land Reform in Puerto Rico: Modernizing the Colonial State, 1941 – 1969 is a generally well-written and cogent historical anthropology of Puerto Rico’s transformation from a primarily agricultural to urban society. García-Colón examines in detail the Popular Democratic Party’s (PPD) milestone Land Reform Law of 1941 and the Agrarian Resettlement Program (ARP) that it institutionalized for decades thereafter. In particular, h…
The Historical Dynamics of Mexico’s Groundwater Crisis in La Laguna
This article examines the historical dynamics by which Mexico’s groundwater resources were knowingly depleted and contaminated from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using the paradigmatic arid north central “Laguna” region as case study, it documents how Mexican engineers alternately warned of the dangers of aquifer depletion and profited from the business opportunities “Mexicanization” of groundwater pumping technology provided via Import Substitution In…
Considering the Alternatives
Other| February 01 2013 Considering the Alternatives: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Agriculture, Water, and Migration in Mexico under State Developmentalism and Neoliberalism Mikael Wolfe Mikael Wolfe Mikael Wolfe is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the C…
Cuba’s "Battle of Spare Parts" Against the US Blockade (1961-1964)
Dialogues
A Revolution Is a Force More Powerful Than Nature”
This article examines how the severe drought of 1961–62 and the fury of Hurricane Flora in October 1963 influenced the Cuban Revolution socioeconomically and geopolitically in the crucial first five years of Fidel Castro’s consolidation of power. Based on extensive research in US and Cuban newspapers and journals, declassified US government documents, the speeches, interviews, and writings of Cuban revolutionaries and foreign advisers, oral histo…
Land, Liberty, and Water
There is a voluminous literature on Zapatismo during the Mexican Revolution. There is far less, however, on postrevolutionary Zapatismo, especially its hydraulic dimension. After all, the Zapatistas did not just demand land; they also demanded water, without which land was useless for agriculture. And in so doing, Zapatista villagers changed their relationship not only to their environment but also to the federal government.This is the story that…
Nuestro viaje a la Luna
Political science (7 works) · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)