The agrarian dispute
Subtitle: the expropriation of American-owned rural land in postrevolutionary Mexico
By: John J. Dwyer.
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780822342953; 9780822343097
Subjects: Land reform -- Mexico; Land tenure -- Mexico; Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States; United States -- Boundaries -- Mexico; Mexico -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- Mexico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the interplay between domestic affairs and foreign relations; title: Domestic origins of an international conflict; title: The roots of the agrarian dispute; title: El asalto a las tierras y la huelga de los sentados: how local agency shaped agrarian reform in the Mexicali Valley; title: The economic, social, and cultural forces behind the federal expropriation of American-owned land in Baja California; title: Domestic politics and the expropriation of American-owned land in the Yaqui Valley; title: The Sonoran reparto: where domestic and international forces meet diplomatic resolution of an international conflict; title: The end of u.s. intervention in Mexico: Roosevelt's administration accommodates its southern neighbor; title: Diplomatic weapons of the weak: Cørdenas's administration outmaneuvers Washington; title: The 1941 global settlement: the end of the agrarian dispute and the start of a new era in U.S.-Mexican relations; title: Conclusion: moving away from Balkanized history; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.