A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico

<p><i>A Pueblo Divided</i> 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. It describes how a complex interplay of commercial, political, demographic, fiscal, and legal pressures led to social strife, rebellion, and finally parcelization. Disproving long-held assumptions that indigenous villagers were passive participants in the process, the author shows that they actually played a crucial role in the subdivision of communal property. Papantla's story is at odds with prevailing stereotypes of pueblo history, and thus points to the need for a broad reexamination of the causes, process, and consequences of rural social change in pre-revolutionary Mexico.</p>

Business & Money

Kourí, Emilio

Economics

Stanford University Press

En 1909 publicó Andrés Molina Enríquez "Los grandes problemas nacionales". Es un libro de leyenda que casi todos conocemos y casi nadie ha leído: una de las obras fundamentales para entender el origen de la sociología mexicana, importante para la formación ideológica de algunos de los líderes de la revolución de 1910, decisivo para la redacción del artículo 27 constitucional, casi una biblia de la revolución social de los años siguientes. Voluminoso, enciclopédico, con frecuencia farragoso y muy anclado en los conceptos raciales y evolucionistas de fines del siglo XIX, ¿merece ser colocado en el pedestal en que se le puso? ¿Merece el olvido en que se encuentra hoy? ¿Dónde queda Andrés Molina Enríquez?

En busca de Molina Enríquez (Jornadas) (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

El Colegio de México.

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