A Pueblo divided
Subtitle: business, property, and community in Papantla, Mexico
By: Emilio Kourí.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Land tenure -- Mexico -- Papantla de Olarte -- History -- 19th century.; Vanilla industry -- Mexico -- Papantla de Olarte -- History -- 19th century.; Papantla de Olarte (Mexico) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; Papantla de Olarte (Mexico) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Papantla de Olarte (Mexico) -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "A Pueblo Divided tells the story of the violent privatization of communal land in Papantla, a Mexican Indian village transformed by the fast growth of vanilla production and exports in the late nineteenth century. The demise of communal landholding, long identified as one of the leading causes of the Revolution of 1910, is one of the grand motifs of Mexico's modern history. It is also, surprisingly, one of the least researched. This is the first study of the process of village land privatization in Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: The culture and commerce of Mexico's vanilla; title: The Tecolutla River Basin; title: The vanilla economy; title: The end of communal landholding; title: The experience of Condueñazgo; title: Division and rebellion.