Developing the Mexican Countryside: The Department of Fomento's Social Project of Modernization
研究了墨西哥发展部如何将基础设施、移民、土地政策、科学和教育整合进乡村经济与社会工程，试图通过农业多样化实现和平与繁荣。
From the mid-nineteenth century onward, governments across Latin America founded departments of fomento , or development, to promote economic growth and modernization. This article looks at the evolution of this department in Mexico and the ways in which it integrated infrastructure, migration, land policy, science, and education into a rural economic and social project. For Department of Fomento leaders, agriculture became the connective tissue linking peace to prosperity. Though many failed, initiatives aimed at increasing the diversity of Mexico's rural production illustrate a concerted effort to avoid top-heavy monoculture and use scientific planning to stabilize and unify the nation.