Building the borderlands
Subtitle: a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border
By: Casey Walsh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Environmental history series -- no. 22
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781603440134
Subjects: Cotton farmers -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History; Cotton trade -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History; Irrigation farming -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : social fields of cotton; title: Cotton and capitalism in the borderlands, 1820-1920; title: Developmentalism in Northern Mexico, 1910-1934; title: The social field of development : land and labor in the Río Bravo/Rio Grande Delta, 1780-1930; title: Crisis and development in the Río Bravo Delta, 1930-1935; title: Cardenista engineering, the Anderson Clayton Company, and rural unrest in the Río Bravo Delta, 1935-1939; title: Repatriation in the Río Bravo Delta, 1935-1940; title: Defining development in the Río Bravo Delta, 1940-1963; title: Conclusion : historicizing the borderlands.