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

English · Hardback

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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

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