Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Winds of Change; Peasants, Proletarians, and the State; The Research Contract; Notes; 2 Codifying Marginality: Agricultural Policy and the Peasantry; The Ejido: The Base of the Pyramid; The ""Mexican Miracle"": A Dual-Track Strategy; Internationalization of the Economy and Emergence of the Agricultural Crisis; Self-Sufficiency and Social Justice; Petrolization and Global Planning; Agriculture Under Austerity: Opening Up the Ejido; Repealing Marginality?; Notes
3 Tradition and Change in CampecheThe Place of the Snake and the Tick; Boom and Bust: From Dyewood to Petroleum; Town and Country; The Debt Crisis in Campeche; Notes; 4 The Milpa Meets the Machine; Making Milpa: The Problem or the Solution?; Agriculture Before State Intervention; The Institutional Web; Notes; 5 The Industry of Disasters; Frontier Colonization Along the Candelaria; Small Irrigation Projects in the Camino Real and Los Chenes; The Valley of Edzná Agricultural and Resettlement Zone; The Record of State Intervention; Notes; 6 In Default: Campesinos and the Debt Crisis
The Causes and Consequences of the CrisesCoping with the Debt Crisis; Notes; 7 A Way Out; Campesinos, the Crises, and the State; The Bottom Line of the Industry of Disasters: Benefits and Costs; The Debt Crisis in the Countryside: Winners and Losers; Strategies for Survival; Depeasantization and Repeasantization; The Future of Peasant Agriculture; Bibliography; List of Acronyms; Glossary; Index
