Export agriculture and the crisis in Central America /by Robert G. Williams.

Cotton -- The cotton boom and Its primary causes -- Demand for cotton by Central American manufacturing -- World demand for cotton after World War II -- The insecticide revolution -- Chemical fertilizers -- Tractors -- Modern technology and cotton yields -- Government road-building programs -- Cotton and credit -- Government promotion of cotton finance -- The cotton boom and Its primary beneficiaries -- The cotton growers -- The cotton landlords -- Cotton gins -- The cotton-export houses -- The suppliers of the cotton boom -- Banks and the cotton boom -- Vegetable-oil factories and textile mills -- Cotton and the cotton elite -- Ecological consequences of cotton -- Cotton and the common man -- The cotton boom and the opening of fresh cropland -- Cornfields to cotton -- Cotton and peasant access to land -- Cotton and the creation of a wage-labor force -- The irreversibility of cotton -- Cotton to cattle -- Cotton to sugar -- Cotton to basic grains -- Cotton and the social fabric -- Cattle -- The beef-export boom and Its primary causes -- Practices before the export boom -- The demand for beef in the U.S. market -- The vital supply link: the modern packing plant -- Refrigerator transport -- Roads and the beef trade -- State promotion of the beef business -- Road finance -- Direct promotional finance to the beef sector -- The beef-export boom and technology on the ranch -- The beneficiaries of beef -- The source of the beef bonanza -- The packing plants' share of the beef bonanza.

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