Abstract
Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico, by Mikael D. Wolfe, Duke University Press, 2017.
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Book review 6 | ERLACS No 105 (2017): January-June holders
Much hope was vested in the Palmito Dam on the Nazas river and a revision of the water distribution agreements
Once the dam was completed in 1946, water inequities persisted as the new governing elites gave political priority to commercial producers that could contribute to the regional and national economy; even though large quantities of agro-chemicals were needed for the production of their commercial crops
Summary
Book review 6 | ERLACS No 105 (2017): January-June holders. Was the land distributed; a whole support system for production in the ejido sector was put in place. Much hope was vested in the Palmito Dam on the Nazas river and a revision of the water distribution agreements.
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