...David McCreery Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics . By Robert W. Wilcox . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2017 . 343 pp. $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4773-1114-1 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 632...

..., and animal scientists that these could be applied in the tropical Americas with ease. This assumption contributed to a wave of foreign ranching investment in semi-tropical Mato Grosso, Brazil, beginning in the early twentieth century. However, such a view failed to consider the specific characteristics...

... sociopolitical and biotechnical processes. Thus a book arriving at the constitution s centenary may lead some to question how much the Laguna region has to celebrate. Bert Kreitlow University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grosso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics...

... Henry A. Wallace award for the best book on any aspect (broadly interpreted) of agricultural history outside the United States. His book is titled Cattle in the Backlands: Mato Grasso and the Evolution of Ranching in the Brazilian Tropics (University of Texas Press, 2017). Wilcox is professor of history...

.... In 1922, Governor-General of Angola, Norton de Matos, sent a letter to company official Luiz Leote Rego that put the amount of land at “thousands of hectares.” Regardless of the amount of land bequeathed, though, local populations were invariably displaced when Diamang claimed these spaces...

...–1940 ( São Paulo : Hucitec-INL-MEC , 1981 ); Odilon Nogueira de Matos , Café e ferrovias: a evolução ferroviária de São Paulo e o desenvolvimento da cultura cafeeira ( São Paulo : Alfa-Omega , 1974 ); Summerhill , Order against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads...

..., hogs, horses, and mules. Many chose general farming because they believed variety was an economic virtue that could shield them from the vagaries of weather and market. This made them more open to adding new crops than their more specialized counterparts in other regions. To? matoes quickly became...

... Perspectives , ed. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Linda C. Delgado ( Armonk : M. E. Sharpe , 1998 ), 118 – 20 ; “Manifestación del Señor Toro,” La Correspondencia , Mar. 23 , 1914 , 1 ; “Información General,” La Correspondencia , June 1 , 1914 , 8 . The Tobacco Trust...

... farmers that to? mato growing was, first, a lucrative proposition, and second, very similar to growing corn and soybeans and thus an easy transition. Some farmers believed that, for the successful development of vegetables, irrigation was a necessity in certain parts of the state, and in 1956 they formed...

..., and Environmental History in Twentieth-Century Latin America.” History Compass 11, no. 2 (2013): 163-76. Wallace, Rob. Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science . New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016. Wilcox, Robert W. Cattle in the Backlands: Mato...

... Modernization in Tropical Brazil: Foreign Investment and Environment in Mato Grasso, 1900–1950” Agricultural History 82 ( Summer 2008 ): 366 – 92 . 30. T. H. Stobbs and P. A. C. Thompson , “Milk Production from Tropical Pastures,” in Ruminant Nutrition: Selected Articles from the World...

... Kelvinators and Frigidaires; not only 564 / Agricultural History was the stuff full of the miraculous Vitamin C but it was sweeter than to? mato juice and easier to serve than home-squeezed OJ.The Florida citrus industry gushingly referred to the new food product as a "miracle" of modern food technology...