Agrarian Crossings : Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside / Tore C. Olsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsson, Tore C., author.

Series:

America in the world.

America in the World ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--Mexico--History--20th century.

Agriculture and state.

Agriculture and state--Southern States--History--20th century.

Land reform--Mexico--History--20th century.

Land reform.

Land reform--Southern States--History--20th century.

Land use, Rural--Mexico--History--20th century.

Land use, Rural.

Land use, Rural--Southern States--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as reformers in each nation came to exchange models, plans, and strategies with their equivalents across the border.Dismantling the artificial boundaries that can divide American and Latin American history, Tore Olsson shows how the agrarian histories of both regions share far more than we realize. He traces the connections between the US South and the plantation zones of Mexico, places that suffered parallel problems of environmental decline, rural poverty, and gross inequities in land tenure. Bringing this tumultuous era vividly to life, he describes how Roosevelt's New Deal drew on Mexican revolutionary agrarianism to shape its program for the rural South. Olsson also looks at how the US South served as the domestic laboratory for the Rockefeller Foundation's "green revolution" in Mexico-which would become the most important Third World development campaign of the twentieth century-and how the Mexican government attempted to replicate the hydraulic development of the Tennessee Valley Authority after World War II.Rather than a comparative history, Agrarian Crossings is an innovative history of comparisons and the ways they affected policy, moved people, and reshaped the landscape.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter One: Parallel Agrarian Societies

Chapter Two: Sharecroppers and Campesinos

Chapter Three: Haciendas and Plantations

Chapter Four: Rockefeller Rural Development

Chapter Five: Green Revolutions

Chapter Six: Transplanting "El Tenesí"

Epilogue

Notes

ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS CONSULTED

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781400888054

1400888050

OCLC:

999635835