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9781603440134

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

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    9781603440134

  • ISBN10:

    1603440135

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-03-01
  • Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

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Casey Walsh is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introduction: Social Fields of Cottonp. 1
The Border, Mexico, and the World
Cotton and Capitalism in the Borderlands, 1820-1920p. 21
Developmentalism in Northern Mexico, 1910-1934p. 44
The Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Delta
The Social Field of Development: Land and Labor in the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Delta, 1780-1930p. 67
Crisis and Development in the Rio Bravo Delta, 1930-1935p. 91
Cardenista Engineering, the Anderson Clayton Company, and Rural Unrest in the Rio Bravo Delta, 1935-1939p. 112
Repatriation in the Rio Bravo Delta, 1935-1940p. 135
Defining Development in the Rio Bravo Delta, 1940-1963p. 154
Conclusion: Historicizing the Borderlandsp. 174
Notesp. 179
Bibliographyp. 205
Indexp. 221
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