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Author Walsh, Casey

Title Building the borderlands : a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border / Casey Walsh
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Environmental history series ; no. 22
Environmental history series ; no. 22.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cotton farmers -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History
Cotton trade -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History
Irrigation farming -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History
Cotton farmers
Cotton trade
Irrigation farming
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781603444361
160344436X