Book contents
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Animals and Government in Mexico
- 2 Sharing Sovereignty in a Technical Commission
- 3 Spiking the Sanitary Rifle
- 4 Soldiers, Syringes, Surveys, and Secrets
- 5 Making a Livestock State
- 6 Mexico and the Cold War on Animal Disease
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Latin American Studies (continued from page ii)
1 - Animals and Government in Mexico
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2022
Book contents
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Cambridge Latin American Studies
- The Dread Plague and the Cow Killers
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Animals and Government in Mexico
- 2 Sharing Sovereignty in a Technical Commission
- 3 Spiking the Sanitary Rifle
- 4 Soldiers, Syringes, Surveys, and Secrets
- 5 Making a Livestock State
- 6 Mexico and the Cold War on Animal Disease
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Latin American Studies (continued from page ii)
Summary
Chapter 1 surveys relations between domestic animals and state formation in Mexico from the colonial to the postrevolutionary era, and discusses how the aftosa disease arrived in Mexico. While the aftosa campaign represented an unprecedented effort by the state to intervene in the lives of livestock animals and their owners, it emerged from a longer history. Conquest, war, commodity booms, depressions, and revolution remade people's relations with domestic animals. Through these shifts, Mexico’s government had never been indifferent to animals, whether as sources of food, energy, disease, or symbolic power.
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- The Dread Plague and the Cow KillersThe Politics of Animal Disease in Mexico and the World, pp. 14 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022