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The agrarian dispute : the expropriation of American-owned rural land in postrevolutionary Mexico / John J. Dwyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dwyer, John Joseph, 1965-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land reform--Mexico.
- Land reform.
- Land tenure--Mexico.
- Land tenure.
- Mexico--Boundaries--United States.
- Mexico.
- United States--Boundaries--Mexico.
- United States.
- Mexico--Relations--United States.
- United States--Relations--Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (404 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focuses on U.S.-Mexican relations in postrevolutionary Mexico, placing Cardenas's agrarian reform--including the nationalization of American-owned Mexican farmland--in an international context.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the interplay between domestic affairs and foreign relations
- Domestic origins of an international conflict
- The roots of the agrarian dispute
- El asalto a las tierras y la huelga de los sentados: how local agency shaped agrarian reform in the Mexicali Valley
- The economic, social, and cultural forces behind the federal expropriation of American-owned land in Baja California
- Domestic politics and the expropriation of American-owned land in the Yaqui Valley
- The Sonoran reparto: where domestic and international forces meet diplomatic resolution of an international conflict
- The end of u.s. intervention in Mexico: Roosevelt's administration accommodates its southern neighbor
- Diplomatic weapons of the weak: Crdenas's administration outmaneuvers Washington
- The 1941 global settlement: the end of the agrarian dispute and the start of a new era in U.S.-Mexican relations
- Conclusion: moving away from Balkanized history
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022714
- 9781283022712
- 1283022710
- 9780822388944
- 0822388944
- OCLC:
- 271244514
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