Dread Plague and the Cow Killers - The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Animals and government in Mexico; 2. Sharing sovereignty in a technical commission; 3. Spiking the sanitary rifle: Argument and opposition; 4. Soldiers, syringes, surveys, and secrets: Encountering resistance; 5. Making a livestock state; 6. Mexico and the Cold War on animal disease; Afterword.

About the author

Thomas Rath is Associate Professor of History at University College London. He is the author of Myths of Demilitarization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-60 and numerous articles, chapters, and reviews on Mexico's political and social history.

Summary

This study serves as a corrective to the myths surrounding a controversial and poorly understood episode in Mexican history, demonstrating how Mexico mattered in the wider Cold War world. The first of its kind in the English language, this book will interest specialists in Latin American and US history.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Rath, Thomas (University College London) Rath, Rath Thomas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781108844482
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84448-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas