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Building the borderlands [electronic resource] : a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border / Casey Walsh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environmental history series ; no. 22.Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 234 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.1/735109721 22
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.C662 M589 2008
Online resources:
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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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

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 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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