Building the borderlands [[electronic resource] ] : a transnational history of irrigated cotton along the Mexico-Texas border / / Casey Walsh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458160803321
• Autore: Walsh Casey
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-60344-436-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Collana: Environmental history series ; ; no. 22
• Disciplina: 338.1/735109721
• Soggetti: Cotton farmers - Mexican-American Border Region - History; Cotton trade - Mexican-American Border Region - History; Irrigation farming - Mexican-American Border Region - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : social fields of cotton -- Cotton and capitalism in the borderlands, 1820-1920 -- Developmentalism in Northern Mexico, 1910-1934 -- The social field of development : land and labor in the Río Bravo/Rio Grande Delta, 1780-1930 -- Crisis and development in the Río Bravo Delta, 1930-1935 -- Cardenista engineering, the Anderson Clayton Company, and rural unrest in the Río Bravo Delta, 1935-1939 -- Repatriation in the Río Bravo Delta, 1935-1940 -- Defining development in the Río Bravo Delta, 1940-1963 -- Conclusion : historicizing the borderlands.