Troubled harvest : agronomy and revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cotter, Joseph, 1956-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Series:	Contributions in Latin American studies. no. 22.
Subjects:	Agriculture > Mexico > History > 20th century. Green Revolution > Mexico. Agriculture > Technology transfer > Mexico > History > 20th century. Mexico > Social conditions > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Liberalism and the origins of Mexican agronomy
Revolution, agronomy, and the roots of the cultural campaign, 1910-1930
Revolutionary agronomy and the cultural campaign, 1930-1937
Agronomy under attack: the demise of the cultural campaign and the roots of a new agronomy, 1938-1943
Agrónomos técnicos: the Rockefeller Foundation, the United States, and the transformation of Mexican agronomy, 1944-1950
The Mexican revolution and the Green revolution, 1950-1970
The aftermath of the first Green revolution, and the birth of as second? 1970-2002
Conclusions: agronomy and Mexico's revolutions.