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In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lzaro Crdenas's land redistribution program. Because no compensation was provided to the Americans a serious crisis, which John J. Dwyer terms "the agrarian dispute," 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 Crdenas'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 Crdenas'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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""The Agrarian Dispute" will force scholars to reconsider U.S.-Mexican relations during the Cardenas years. John J. Dwyer shows how powerful domestic and international events were affected by the actions of 'subalterns' and how Mexico, a relatively weak power, deftly bested the United States with creative diplomatic tactics. He also makes a convincing case that the U.S. response to Mexico's oil expropriation in 1938 was largely determined by the earlier controversy over the land confiscations."--Timothy J. Henderson, author of "The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906-1927"

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Título The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Autor John Dwyer
Encadernação Brochura
Páginas 388
Volumes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Duke University Press, Durham
Data de publicação 2008-09
Ilustrado Sim
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780822343097 / 0822343096
Peso 1.25 libras (0.57 kg)
Dimensão 9.2 x 6 x 1 in. (23.37 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
Temas
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Cultural Region: Mexican
Library of Congress subjects Mexico - Relations - United States, United States - Relations - Mexico
Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2008013524
Dewey Decimal Code 333.140

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

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Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo. xiv, 388 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Includes bibliography and index. Very Good+, light scuffing to wrappers, internally clean and bright.

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