Thomas Rath

Dread Plague and the Cow Killers (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1947 and 1954, the Mexican and US governments waged a massive campaign against a devastating livestock plague, aftosa or foot-and-mouth disease. Absorbing over half of US economic aid to Latin America and involving thousands of veterinarians and ranchers from both countries, battalions of Mexican troops, and scientists from Europe and the Americas, the campaign against aftosa was unprecedented in size. Despite daunting obstacles and entrenched opposition, it successfully eradicated the virus in Mexico, and reshaped policies, institutions, and knowledge around the world. Using untapped sources from local, national, and international archives, Thomas Rath provides a comprehensive history of this campaign, the forces that shaped it - from presidents to peasants, scientists to journalists, pistoleros to priests, mountains to mules - and the complicated legacy it left. More broadly, it uses the campaign to explore the formation of the Mexican state, changing ideas of development and security, and the history of human-animal relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108952613
• Artikelnr.: 66184010

Autorenporträt

Thomas Rath is Associate Professor of History at University College London. He is the author of Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-60 and numerous articles, chapters, and reviews on Mexico's political and social history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Animals and government in Mexico
2. Sharing sovereignty in a technical commission
3. Spiking the sanitary rifle: Argument and opposition
4. Soldiers, syringes, surveys, and secrets: Encountering resistance
5. Making a livestock state
6. Mexico and the Cold War on animal disease
Afterword.