Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Parallel agrarian societies : the US South and Mexico, 1870s-1920s
  • Sharecroppers and campesinos : Mexican revolutionary agrarianism in the rural New Deal
  • Haciendas and plantations : finding the agrarian New Deal in Cardenista Mexico
  • Rockefeller rural development : from the US cotton belt to Mexico
  • Green revolutions : US regionalism and the Mexican agricultural program
  • Transplanting "El Tenesi" : New Deal hydraulic development in postwar Mexico
  • Epilogue.