TY - JOUR
AU - Jacoby, Karl
AB - Book Reviews 567 Building the Borderlands: A Transnational His- at social engineering, however, the colony did tory of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas not work out quite as planned. The improvisa- Border. By Casey Walsh. (College Station: tions of its residents in navigating between the Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 234 grand modernization schemes of the United pp. $47.50, isbn 978-1-60344-013-4.) States and Mexico constitute some of the most compelling sections of Walsh’s study. For a brief period in the 1950s, Mexico was For all the aspirations of the burgeoning the second-leading exporter of cotton in the field of borderlands studies to present a bal- nonsocialist world. The story of this cotton anced portrayal of both the United States and boom—and its bust a few years later—is re- Mexico, most nonetheless end up favoring counted with skill and grace in Casey Walsh’s one side of the border over the other. Building Building the Borderlands. As is so often the the Borderlands devotes far more attention to case in the region known by the shorthand la- Mexican agriculture and state-building than to bel “the borderlands,” this tale confounds any events on the other side of the border, despite effort 
TI - Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border. By Casey Walsh. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xii, 234 pp. $47.50, ISBN 978-1-60344-013-4.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/96.2.567
DA - 2009-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/building-the-borderlands-a-transnational-history-of-irrigated-cotton-KU7qb3cZVV
SP - 567
EP - 567
VL - 96
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -