TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Robert G.
TI  - Export agriculture and the crisis in Central America /by Robert G. Williams
SN  - 9781469616339
AV  - HD9884 .E976 1986
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Cotton trade
KW  - Central America
KW  - Beef industry
KW  - Cattle trade
KW  - Carne de res
KW  - Industria y comercio
KW  - América Central
KW  - Ganado y ganadería
KW  - Comercio
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Bibliography: pages 239.-248; 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; 2; b
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