Agrarian Structure and Political Power in Mexico
Title | Agrarian Structure and Political Power in Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Bartra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Agrarian Structure Political Power
Title | Agrarian Structure Political Power PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyne Huber |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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The troubled history of democracy in Latin America has been the subject of much scholarly commentary. This volume breaks new ground by systematically exploring the linkages among the historical legacies of large landholding patterns, agrarian class relations, and authoritarian versus democratic trajectories in Latin American countries. The essays address questions about the importance of large landownders for the national economy, the labor needs and labor relations of these landowners, attempts of landowners to enlist the support of the state to control labor, and the democratic forms of rule in the twentieth century.
Agrarian Structure and Political Power
Title | Agrarian Structure and Political Power PDF eBook |
Author | Evelyne Huber |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2010-11-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 082297472X |
The troubled history of democracy in Latin America has been the subject of much scholarly commentary. This volume breaks new ground by systematically exploring the linkages among the historical legacies of large landholding patterns, agrarian class relations, and authoritarian versus democratic trajectories in Latin American countries. The essays address questions about the importance of large landownders for the national economy, the labor needs and labor relations of these landowners, attempts of landowners to enlist the support of the state to control labor, and the democratic forms of rule in the twentieth century.
Land, Power, And Poverty
Title | Land, Power, And Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Charles D. Brockett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2019-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429710488 |
This book, Land, Power, and Poverty, explores the development of the rigid and unequal structures of rural Central American society and the role in the conflicts of five governments of the region Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
Power over Property
Title | Power over Property PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Noellert |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472127101 |
Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent the next three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one-third of the world’s peasants. This book presents a new perspective on the first step of this reform, when the CCP helped redistribute over 40 million hectares of land to over three hundred million impoverished peasants in the nationwide land reform movement. This land reform, the founding myth of the People’s Republic of China (1949–present) and one of the largest redistributions of wealth and power in history, embodies the idea that an equal distribution of property will lead to social and political equality. Power Over Property argues that in practice, however, the opposite occurred: the redistribution of political power led to a more equal distribution of property. China’s land reform was accomplished not only through the state’s power to define the distribution of resources, but also through village communities prioritizing political entitlements above property rights. Through the systematic analysis of never-before studied micro-level data on practices of land reform in over five hundred villages, Power Over Property demonstrates how land reform primarily involved the removal of former power holders, the mobilization of mass political participation, and the creation of a new social-political hierarchy. Only after accomplishing all of this was it possible to redistribute land. This redistribution, moreover, was determined by political relations to a new structure of power, not just economic relations to the means of production. The experience of China’s land reform complicates our understanding of the relations between economic, social, and political equality. On the one hand, social equality in China was achieved through political, not economic means. On the other hand, the fundamental solution was a more effective hierarchy of fair entitlements, not equal rights. This book ultimately suggests that focusing on economic equality alone may obscure more important social and political dynamics in the development of the modern world.
An Agrarian Republic
Title | An Agrarian Republic PDF eBook |
Author | Aldo A. Lauria |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2010-10-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822972026 |
With unprecedented use of local and national sources, Lauria-Santiago presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador than has ever been ventured before. Using thoroughly researched regional case studies, Lauria-Santiago uncovers an astonishing variety of patterns in land use, labor, and the organization of production. He finds a diverse, commercially active peasantry that was deeply involved with local and national networks of power. An Agrarian Republic challenges the accepted vision of Central America in the nineteenth century and critiques the "liberal oligarchic hegemony" model of El Salvador. Detailed discussions of Ladino victories and successful Indian resistance give a perspective on Ladinization that does not rely on a polarized understanding of ethnic identity.
Power, Politics, and Agrarian Structure in Mexico
Title | Power, Politics, and Agrarian Structure in Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Barchfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Agriculture and state |
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