Faucets and Fertilizers: Interpreting Technological Change in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico, 1946-1988

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dc.contributor.advisorVaughan, Mary Kayen_US
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Joshua Charlesen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-26T05:46:16Z
dc.date.available2015-06-26T05:46:16Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractFaucets and Fertilizers: Interpreting Technological Change in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico, 1946-1988 argues that peasant farmers in Oaxaca were key actors who helped to oversee the technological modernization of their villages in the twentieth century. From the 1940s to the 1980s, federal and state development programs sought to introduce new tools like chemical fertilizers, water faucets, roads, and mechanical corn grinders to villages in the countryside. These programs were often unevenly distributed and poorly designed, forcing peasants to rely on old skills and customs in order to acquire and use the technologies they wanted. As peasants learned about the benefits of the technologies, they also learned to use them to challenge the power of family patriarchs, village elders, and federal leaders. Far from being the passive victims of modernization described in the historiography of rural Mexico, Oaxacan peasants participated in technological change and used new tools in an attempt to overcome problems with low crop production and restricted mobility.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2905B
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16679
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLatin American historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGender studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAgricultureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledagricultureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhistoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMexicoen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpeasantsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtechnologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledwomenen_US
dc.titleFaucets and Fertilizers: Interpreting Technological Change in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico, 1946-1988en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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