Export agriculture and the crisis in Central America /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. This book shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Robert G. (Robert Gregory), 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1986]
Temas:
Since 1979
Cotton trade > Central America.
Beef industry > Central America.
Cattle trade > Central America.
Bœuf (Viande) > Industrie > Amérique centrale.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Economy.
Beef industry
Cattle trade
Cotton trade
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
Baumwollhandel
Fleischproduktion
Agrarexport
Agrarkrise
Außenhandel
Agrarprodukt
Export
Wirtschaftskrise
Industrie cotonnière > Amérique centrale.
Boeuf (viande) > Industrie et commerce > Amérique centrale.
Central America > Politics and government > 1979-
Central America > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Central America.
Amérique centrale > Politique et gouvernement > 1979-
Amérique centrale > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Amérique centrale.
Central America
United States
Mittelamerika
Zentralamerika
USA
Amérique centrale > Politique et gouvernement > 1979- ...
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cotton
  • The cotton boom and Its primary causes
  • Demand for cotton by Central American manufacturing
  • World demand for cotton after World War II
  • The insecticide revolution
  • Chemical fertilizers
  • Tractors
  • Modern technology and cotton yields
  • Government road-building programs
  • Cotton and credit
  • Government promotion of cotton finance
  • The cotton boom and Its primary beneficiaries
  • The cotton growers
  • The cotton landlords
  • Cotton gins
  • The cotton-export houses
  • The suppliers of the cotton boom
  • Banks and the cotton boom
  • Vegetable-oil factories and textile mills
  • Cotton and the cotton elite
  • Ecological consequences of cotton
  • Cotton and the common man
  • The cotton boom and the opening of fresh cropland
  • Cornfields to cotton
  • Cotton and peasant access to land
  • Cotton and the creation of a wage-labor force
  • The irreversibility of cotton
  • Cotton to cattle
  • Cotton to sugar
  • Cotton to basic grains
  • Cotton and the social fabric
  • Cattle
  • The beef-export boom and Its primary causes
  • Practices before the export boom
  • The demand for beef in the U.S. market
  • The vital supply link: the modern packing plant
  • Refrigerator transport
  • Roads and the beef trade
  • State promotion of the beef business
  • Road finance
  • Direct promotional finance to the beef sector
  • The beef-export boom and technology on the ranch
  • The beneficiaries of beef
  • The source of the beef bonanza
  • The packing plants' share of the beef bonanza.

Ejemplares similares