Landscaping indigenous Mexico : the liberal state and capitalism in the Purépecha highlands / Fernando Pérez Montesinos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Montesinos, Fernando, author.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purépecha Indians--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History.

Purépecha Indians.

Land use--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History.

Land use.

Landscapes--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--Environmental conditions--History.

Landscapes.

Land use--Government policy--Mexico--Michoacán de Ocampo--History.

Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico)--Politics and government--History.

Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico).

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Liberal state and capitalism in the Purépecha highlands

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Juátarhu, one of the oldest, continuously inhabited regions of what today is the northern edge of Michoacán, is inhabited by the Purépecha-one of the largest Indigenous groups to live in the hilly woodlands-and have largely lived on subsistence farming. While these communities were devastated by violent incursions by Spanish and European diseases, they managed to persevere by living on the edges of more developed Spanish colonial centers. The end of Spanish rule in the early nineteenth century made it possible for the Purépecha to use the hilly, wooded areas as a basis for growing maize, orchards, and vegetable gardens that were not as affected as other areas of Mexico by political conflict and changing economies. The lengthy presidency of Porfirio Díaz (the Porfiriato) created new challenges. As centralized government combined with commercial and industrial capitalism-which were accelerated by railway systems and widespread logging industries-it seemed that the Purépecha were destined for a similar fate as other Indigenous communities. However, as Pérez Montesinos uncovers, the disruption of the Mexican Revolution upended capitalist interests and government oversight of the region as they were forced to turn towards dealing with revolutionaries in the North and South. The particulars of the landscape in this area made it possible to shift power and environmental control back to these Indigenous communities. By examining the unusual facets of this landscape, Pérez Montesinos uncovers not just a history of environmental change to the land, but an unusual story of how local peoples were able to retain their own livelihoods and culture largely intact during a time of upheaval"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Landscaping indigenous Michoacán : ecology and community, liberalism and capitalism in an indigenous world, 1820-1920

Making and remaking the indigenous highlands, circa 7000 BC-AD 1820

A reliable and resilient landscape, 1800-1890

The tumultuous origins of the reparto era, 1821-1867

Contesting the liberal landscape, 1867-1875

Land concentrations and state interventions, 1875-1890

Capitalism comes to the uplands : railroads invade the forests, 1890-1900

Assaulting the landscape : timber capitalism, 1900-1910

The landscape survives : revolution breaks timber capitalism, 1910-1920

My village.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pérez Montesinos, Fernando. Landscaping indigenous Mexico.

ISBN:

9781477330999

1477330992

OCLC:

1453617759

Publisher Number:

90101419654