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Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America by Robert G. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Robert G. (Robert Gregory), 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cattle trade--Central America.
- Cattle trade.
- Beef industry--Central America.
- Beef industry.
- Cotton trade--Central America.
- Cotton trade.
- United States--Foreign relations--Central America.
- United States.
- Central America--Foreign relations--United States.
- Central America.
- Central America--Politics and government--1979-.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America
- Contents:
- Cotton
- The cotton boom and Its primary causes
- Demand for cotton by Central American manufacturing
- World demand for cotton after World War II
- The insecticide revolution
- Chemical fertilizers
- Tractors
- Modern technology and cotton yields
- Government road-building programs
- Cotton and credit
- Government promotion of cotton finance
- The cotton boom and Its primary beneficiaries
- The cotton growers
- The cotton landlords
- Cotton gins
- The cotton-export houses
- The suppliers of the cotton boom
- Banks and the cotton boom
- Vegetable-oil factories and textile mills
- Cotton and the cotton elite
- Ecological consequences of cotton
- Cotton and the common man
- The cotton boom and the opening of fresh cropland
- Cornfields to cotton
- Cotton and peasant access to land
- Cotton and the creation of a wage-labor force
- The irreversibility of cotton
- Cotton to cattle
- Cotton to sugar
- Cotton to basic grains
- Cotton and the social fabric
- Cattle
- The beef-export boom and Its primary causes
- Practices before the export boom
- The demand for beef in the U.S. market
- The vital supply link: the modern packing plant
- Refrigerator transport
- Roads and the beef trade
- State promotion of the beef business
- Road finance
- Direct promotional finance to the beef sector
- The beef-export boom and technology on the ranch
- The beneficiaries of beef
- The source of the beef bonanza
- The packing plants' share of the beef bonanza.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [239]-248.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798893134612
- 9798890886262
- 9781469615882
- 1469615886
- 9781469616339
- 1469616335
- OCLC:
- 862077130
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