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Troubled Harvest - Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002 (Hardcover, New)
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Troubled Harvest - Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002 (Hardcover, New)
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During the 20th century, two revolutions swept rural Mexico: the
Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution. In both,
"revolutionaries" promised to address the problems of rural poverty
and underdevelopment. The Mexican Revolution led to a significant
agrarian reform and created the State and elite that governed
Mexico since the 1920s. The Green Revolution helped increase
Mexican agricultural production substantially, and in 1970 it won a
Nobel Peace Prize for Norman Borlaug, who bred dwarf hybrid wheat.
Mexican agronomists played significant roles in both revolutions,
but neither revolution brought prosperity to peasant farmers. This
book examines the history of Mexican agronomy and agronomists to
shed new light on the role of science in the Mexican Revolution,
the origins of the worldwide Green Revolution, and general issues
about the nature of the professions, the impact of professionals'
ties to politics and the state, and discourses between members of
Mexico's urban middle class and peasantry. Cotter also analyzes the
impact of foreign models of science in Mexico, the history of
U.S.-Mexican cooperation in the agricultural sciences, and the
factors that led Mexico to seek scientific assistance from the
United States. In a broad way, he reveals new aspects of the
ongoing struggle for the right to define "modernity" and "progress"
in rural Mexico, and offers new explanations for the failure of
many of the State's efforts to assist peasant farmers.
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