Liberals, the Church, and Indian peasants : corporate lands and the challenge of reform in nineteenth-century Spanish America / edited by Robert H. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Howard)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Mexico--History--19th century.

Land tenure.

Land tenure--Andes Region--History--19th century.

Liberalism--Mexico--History--19th century.

Liberalism.

Liberalism--Andes Region--History--19th century.

Indians of Mexico--Land tenure--History--19th century.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of South America--Land tenure--Andes Region--History--19th century.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Land tenure.

History.

Indians of Mexico--Land tenure.

Andes Region.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1997]

Summary:

The control and use of land were fundamental issues throughout Spanish America in the nineteenth century. The seven original essays in this volume are the first comprehensive treatment of how governments and local officials, following the tenets of economic liberalism, forced changes in land ownership after Independence and what resulted from their reforms.

Leaders in newly independent countries in Mesoamerica and the Andean region attacked as inherently unproductive the large land holdings of the Church, charitable institutions such as orphanages, and Indian communities. Liberals believed that breaking up communal land holdings and selling these to individuals spurred economic development and modernization. Each chapter addresses how transfer of ownership occurred and what economic effects followed. The social and political changes associated with land tenure reforms are also carefully considered.

Contents:

Dealing in real estate in mid-nineteenth-century Jalisco : the Guadalajara region / Robert J. Knowlton

The decade of revolt : peasant rebellion in Jalisco, Mexico, 1855-1864 / Dawn Fogle Deaton

Liberal theory and peasant practice : land and power in northern Veracruz, Mexico (1826-1900) / Michael T. Ducey

Liberal modernization and religious corporate property in nineteenth-century Guatemala / Hubert Miller

Liberalism and Indian communities in Peru, 1821-1920 / Nils Jacobsen

Liberalism and the land question in Bolivia (1825-1920) / Erick D. Langer and Robert H. Jackson

Community and hacienda in the Bolivian highlands : changing patterns of land tenure in Arque and Vacas / Robert H. Jackson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826317626

OCLC:

34886514