Thomas Rath (University College London)

The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers

The Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 159mm x 236mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781108844482
• ISBN-10: 1108844480
• Artikelnr.: 63594756

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.