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5 A Very Big, Very Poor Country

  • Nick Cullather
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The Hungry World
This chapter is in the book The Hungry World
© 2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

© 2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Illustrations viii
  4. Preface ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1 The World Food Problem 11
  7. 2 Mexico’s Way Out 43
  8. 3 A Continent of Peasants 72
  9. 4 We Shall Release the Waters 108
  10. 5 A Very Big, Very Poor Country 134
  11. 6 A Parable of Seeds 159
  12. 7 You Can’t Eat Steel 180
  13. 8 The Meaning of Famine 205
  14. 9 The Conquest of Hunger 232
  15. 10 Present at the Re- creation 263
  16. Abbreviations 273
  17. Notes 275
  18. Archives 333
  19. Index 335
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674262881-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Illustrations viii
  4. Preface ix
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1 The World Food Problem 11
  7. 2 Mexico’s Way Out 43
  8. 3 A Continent of Peasants 72
  9. 4 We Shall Release the Waters 108
  10. 5 A Very Big, Very Poor Country 134
  11. 6 A Parable of Seeds 159
  12. 7 You Can’t Eat Steel 180
  13. 8 The Meaning of Famine 205
  14. 9 The Conquest of Hunger 232
  15. 10 Present at the Re- creation 263
  16. Abbreviations 273
  17. Notes 275
  18. Archives 333
  19. Index 335
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