Dwyer John Dwyer

Agrarian Dispute (eBook, PDF)

The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lazaro Cardenas's land redistribution program. Because no compensation was provided to the Americans a serious crisis, which John J. Dwyer terms "e;the agrarian dispute,"e; ensued between the two countries. Dwyer's nuanced analysis of this conflict at the local, regional, national, and international levels combines social, economic, political, and cultural history. He argues that the agrarian dispute inaugurated a new and improved era in bilateral relations because Mexican officials were able to negotiate a favorable settlement, and the United States, constrained economically and politically by the Great Depression, reacted to the crisis with unaccustomed restraint. Dwyer challenges prevailing arguments that Mexico's nationalization of the oil industry in 1938 was the first test of Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy by showing that the earlier conflict over land was the watershed event.Dwyer weaves together elite and subaltern history and highlights the intricate relationship between domestic and international affairs. Through detailed studies of land redistribution in Baja California and Sonora, he demonstrates that peasant agency influenced the local application of Cardenas's agrarian reform program, his regional state-building projects, and his relations with the United States. Dwyer draws on a broad array of official, popular, and corporate sources to illuminate the motives of those who contributed to the agrarian dispute, including landless fieldworkers, indigenous groups, small landowners, multinational corporations, labor leaders, state-level officials, federal policymakers, and diplomats. Taking all of them into account, Dwyer explores the circumstances that spurred agrarista mobilization, the rationale behind Cardenas's rural policies, the Roosevelt administration's reaction to the loss of American-owned land, and the diplomatic tactics employed by Mexican officials to resolve the international conflict.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822388944
• Artikelnr.: 54933885

Autorenporträt

John J. Dwyer is Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Interplay between Domestic Affairs and Foreign Relations
1
Part I. Domestic Origins of an International Conflict
1. The Roots of the Agrarian Dispute 17
2. El asalto a las tierras y la huelga de los sentados: How Local Agency
Shaped Agrarian Reform in the Mexicali Valley 44
3. The Expropriation of American-Owned Land in Baja California: Political,
Economic, Social, and Cultural Factors 77
4. Domestic Politics and the Expropriation of American-Owned Land in the
Yaqui Valley 103
5. The Sonoran Reparto: Where Domestic and International Forces Meet 138
Part II. Diplomatic Resolution of an International Conflict
6. The End of U.S. Intervention in Mexico: The Roosevelt Administration
Accommodates Mexico City 159
7. Diplomatic Weapons of the Weak: Cárdenas's Administration Outmaneuvers
Washington 194
8. The 1941 Global Settlement: The End of the Agrarian Dispute and the
Start of a New Era in U.S.-Mexican Relations 232
Conclusion: Moving away from Balkanized History 267
Notes 85
Bibliography 343
Index 371