Building the Borderlands : A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walsh, Casey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Irrigation farming > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Cotton trade > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Cotton farmers > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : social fields of cotton
  • Cotton and capitalism in the borderlands, 1820-1920
  • Developmentalism in Northern Mexico, 1910-1934
  • The social field of development : land and labor in the Río Bravo/Rio Grande Delta, 1780-1930
  • Crisis and development in the Río Bravo Delta, 1930-1935
  • Cardenista engineering, the Anderson Clayton Company, and rural unrest in the Río Bravo Delta, 1935-1939
  • Repatriation in the Río Bravo Delta, 1935-1940
  • Defining development in the Río Bravo Delta, 1940-1963
  • Conclusion : historicizing the borderlands.

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