How Long to Read Dreaming of Dry Land

How Long Does it Take to Read Dreaming of Dry Land?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 1 minute to read Dreaming of Dry Land by Vera S. Candiani

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and protracted drainage project in the early modern America—the Desagüe de Huehuetoca. Hundreds of technicians, thousands of indigenous workers, and millions of pesos were marshaled to realize a complex system of canals, tunnels, dams, floodgates, and reservoirs. Vera S. Candiani's Dreaming of Dry Land weaves a narrative that describes what colonization was and looked like on the ground, and how it affected land, water, biota, humans, and the relationship among them, to explain the origins of our built and unbuilt landscapes. Connecting multiple historiographical traditions—history of science and technology, environmental history, social history, and Atlantic history—Candiani proposes that colonization was a class, not an ethnic or nation-based phenomenon, occurring simultaneously on both sides of an Atlantic, where state-building and empire-building were intertwined.

How long is Dreaming of Dry Land?

Dreaming of Dry Land by Vera S. Candiani is 408 pages long, and a total of 105,264 words.

This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Dreaming of Dry Land Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 35 minutes to read Dreaming of Dry Land aloud.

What Reading Level is Dreaming of Dry Land?

Dreaming of Dry Land is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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