Building the borderlands
Walsh, Casey.
Building the borderlands a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border / [electronic resource] : Casey Walsh. - 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008. - 234 p. : ill., maps. - Environmental history series ; no. 22 . - Environmental history series ; no. 22. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Cotton farmers--History.--Mexican-American Border Region
Cotton trade--History.--Mexican-American Border Region
Irrigation farming--History.--Mexican-American Border Region
Electronic books.
HD8039.C662 / M589 2008eb
338.1/735109721
Building the borderlands a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border / [electronic resource] : Casey Walsh. - 1st ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008. - 234 p. : ill., maps. - Environmental history series ; no. 22 . - Environmental history series ; no. 22. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Cotton farmers--History.--Mexican-American Border Region
Cotton trade--History.--Mexican-American Border Region
Irrigation farming--History.--Mexican-American Border Region
Electronic books.
HD8039.C662 / M589 2008eb
338.1/735109721