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Author Walsh, Casey.

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

Imprint College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 234 p. : ill., maps.
Series Environmental history series ; no. 22
Environmental history series ; no. 22.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cotton farmers -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History.
Cotton trade -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History.
Irrigation farming -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781603440134 (cloth : alk. paper)
1603440135 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603444361 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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