Building the borderlands a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walsh, Casey.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Environmental history series ; no. 22.
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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 Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Delta, 1780-1930
  • Crisis and development in the Rio Bravo Delta, 1930-1935
  • Cardenista engineering, the Anderson Clayton Company, and rural unrest in the Rio Bravo Delta, 1935-1939
  • Repatriation in the Rio Bravo Delta, 1935-1940
  • Defining development in the Rio Bravo Delta, 1940-1963
  • Conclusion : historicizing the borderlands.