Troubled harvest : agronomy and revolution in Mexico, 1880-2002 / Joseph Cotter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-369) and index.

Introduction: Agronomy and Revolution in Mexico -- 1. Liberalism and the Origins of Mexican Agronomy -- 2. Revolution, Agronomy, and the Roots of the Cultural Campaign, 1910-1930 -- 3. Revolutionary Agronomy and the Cultural Campaign, 1930-1937 -- 4. Agronomy under Attack: The Demise of the Cultural Campaign and the Roots of a New Agronomy, 1938-1943 -- 5. Agronomos Tecnicos: The Rockefeller Foundation, the United States, and the Transformation of Mexican Agronomy, 1944-1950 -- 6. The Mexican Revolution and the Green Revolution, 1950-1970 -- 7. The Aftermath of the First Green Revolution and the Birth of a Second? 1970-2002 -- Conclusions: Agronomy and Mexico's Revolutions.