Public services, political culture and citizen protest. The supply of water in Aguascalientes, 1899-1944
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The objective of the article is to demonstrate the emergence and importance of an urban political culture linked to the introduction of water supply at home in the city of Aguascalientes during the first decades of the 20th century. The text analyzes the functioning of the supply system, studies the emergence of neighborhood organizations and explains the rhythms and strategies of citizen mobilizations protesting the scarcity of liquid. The information obtained in local press releases and in reports, petitions, complaints and correspondence located in municipal, state and national archives, points to the existence of an ideal city that guided the growth of the state capital of Aguascalientes and influenced the relationship established between government and urban social actors in a key period of the conformation of the Mexican State emerged from the Revolution of 1910.
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