TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olsson,Tore C.
TI  - Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside 
T2  - America in the World
SN  - 9780691165202
AV  - HD207 .O47 2018
U1  - 333.760975 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Agriculture and state
KW  - Mexico
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Land reform
KW  - Land use, Rural
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Farm Security Administration
KW  - Frank Tannenbaum
KW  - General Education Board
KW  - Josephus Daniels
KW  - Latin American
KW  - Mexican Agricultural Program
KW  - Mexican Revolution
KW  - Mexican agrarian reform
KW  - Mexican countryside
KW  - Miguel Alemán
KW  - New Deal politics
KW  - New Deal
KW  - Rockefeller Foundation
KW  - Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
KW  - Tennessee Valley Authority
KW  - US Populist movement
KW  - US South
KW  - United States
KW  - agrarian justice
KW  - agrarian policy
KW  - agrarian radicalism
KW  - agrarian reform
KW  - agrarian revolts
KW  - agrarian revolution
KW  - agricultural productivity
KW  - agricultural reform
KW  - agriculture
KW  - countryside
KW  - ejido farmers
KW  - environmental decline
KW  - haciendas
KW  - hydraulic development program
KW  - inequality
KW  - land reform
KW  - land tenure
KW  - landholding
KW  - plantations
KW  - rural poverty
KW  - rural reform
KW  - rural reformers
KW  - rural social transformation
KW  - rural transformation
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888054?locatt=mode:legacy
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