Intimate enemies
Subtitle: landowners, power, and violence in Chiapas
By: Aaron Bobrow-Strain.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822339878; 9780822340041
Subjects: Landowners -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History; Elite (Social sciences) -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History,; Land reform -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History; Social conflict -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History; Violence -- Mexico -- Chiapas -- History; Chiapas (Mexico) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Honest shadows : ethnography and ordinary tyrants; title: Landed relations, landowner identities: race, space, power, and political economy; title: Children of the magic fruit : the making of a landed elite, 1850/1920; title: Killing Pedro Chulón : landowners, revolution, and reform, 1920/1962; title: The dead at Golonchín : cattle, crisis, and conflict, 1962/1994; title: The invasions of 1994/1998 : estate agriculture unglued; title: Import-substitution dreaming : producing landowners' place in the nation; title: Geographies of fear, spaces of quiescence; title: The agrarian spiral.