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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 Lazaro Cardenas'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 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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Duke University Press

Date de parution

12 septembre 2008

EAN13

9780822388944

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

T h e A g r a r i a n D i s p u t e

a me r i c a n e n c o u n t e r s / g l o b a l i n t e r a c t i o n s AserieseditedbyGilbertM.JosephandEmilyS.Rosenberg

This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global presence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and deconstruction of cultural and political borders, the ﬂuid meanings of intercultural encounters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between historians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the representational character of all stories about the past and promotes critical inquiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, American Encounters strives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, challenged, and reshaped.

T h e A g r a r i a n D i s p u t e

T h e E x p r o p r i a t i o n o f A m e r i c a n - O w n e d R u r a l L a n d i n P o s t r e v o l u t i o n a r y M e x i c o

John J. Dwyer

Duke Universit y Press

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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Minion Pro by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of Duquesne University, which provided funds

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List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: The Interplay between Domestic A√airs and Foreign Relations 1

part i Domestic Origins of an International Conﬂict

1. The Roots of the Agrarian Dispute 17

2.laysraertislassoledagleuhdosentaastloalEa: 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 i i 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

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Conclusion: Moving away from Balkanized History 267

Notes 285

Bibliography 343

Index 371

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m a p s 1. American-owned rural properties expropriated between January 1, 1927, and October 6, 1940, by state, 2 2. Baja California Norte and Sonora, highlighting the Mexicali and Yaqui Valleys, 12

f i g u r e s 1. Elderman’s cartoon showing a Mexican hand pulling on Uncle Sam’s beard, 4 2. Cartoon depicting Mexico, stuck between popular mobilization for land and the international complications that stem from expropriation, 10 3. President Pascual Ortiz Rubio and former president Plutarco Elías Calles, 20 4. Richardson Construction Co. billboard in Mazatleca, Sinaloa, advertising ir-rigated land for sale in Sonora’s Yaqui Valley, 26 5. American settlers in the Yaqui Valley, 27 6. Marshall Neilan,crlc‘s Harry Chandler, and Garza Leal, 31 7. Mexican ﬁeldhand picking cotton, 52 8. Poor housing conditions for Mexicali ﬁeld workers, 54 9. Women from colonist families in the Mexicali Valley, 55 10. Well-dressed Mexicali Valley colonists, 71 11. Ejidal school in the Mexicali Valley built by Cárdenas’s administration, 93 12. Sonoran governor Román Yocupicio (1937–39), 108 13.ctm125leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano addressing a rally, 14. Cárdenas meets a Mexican peasant, 127

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