Building the borderlands [electronic resource] : a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border / Casey Walsh.
Series: Environmental history series ; no. 22.Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 234 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9781603440134 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1603440135 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781603444361 (e-book)
- 338.1/735109721 22
- HD8039.C662 M589 2008eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 R�io Bravo/Rio Grande Delta, 1780-1930 -- Crisis and development in the R�io Bravo Delta, 1930-1935 -- Cardenista engineering, the Anderson Clayton Company, and rural unrest in the R�io Bravo Delta, 1935-1939 -- Repatriation in the R�io Bravo Delta, 1935-1940 -- Defining development in the R�io Bravo Delta, 1940-1963 -- Conclusion : historicizing the borderlands.
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