Intimate enemies: landowners, power, and violence in Chiapas

Introduction -- Honest shadows : ethnography and ordinary tyrants -- Landed relations, landowner identities : race, space, power, and political economy -- Children of the magic fruit : the making of a landed elite, 1850-1920 -- Killing Pedro Chulín : landowners, revolution, and reform, 1920-1962 --...

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Main Author: Bobrow-Strain, Aaron 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2007
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Summary:Introduction -- Honest shadows : ethnography and ordinary tyrants -- Landed relations, landowner identities : race, space, power, and political economy -- Children of the magic fruit : the making of a landed elite, 1850-1920 -- Killing Pedro Chulín : landowners, revolution, and reform, 1920-1962 -- The dead at Golonchán : cattle, crisis, and conflict, 1962-1994 -- The invasions of 1994-1998 : estate agriculture unglued -- Import-substitution dreaming : producing landowners' place in the nation -- Geographies of fear, spaces of quiescence -- The agrarian spiral
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index
Physical Description:xv, 271 p ill., maps 25 cm
ISBN:9780822389521
0822389525