Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food Since 1910

by Enrique C. Ochoa

Book Overview

Winner of the 1998 Michael C. Meyer Manuscript Prize! Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 traces the Mexican government's intervention in the regulation, production, and distribution of food from the days of Cardenas to the recent privatization inspired by NAFTA. Professor Ochoa argues that the real goals of the government's food subsidies were political, driven by presidential desires to court urban labor. Many of the agencies and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842028137
• ISBN13: 9780842028134
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"