...Carmen Kordick Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico . By Elizabeth Terese Newman . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2014 . 272 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3073-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History...

...Michelle Wibbelsman Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador . Barry J. Lyons . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews LatinAmerica and theCaribbean RememberingtheHacienda: Religion,Authoritya,nd Social Change...

... light, wheeled models that spread throughout Chile in the 1930s. The tractor was the culmination of a long process of mechanization of the Chilean hacienda system that developed from the 1850s. It was also a technological innovation that contributed to the drastic increase of cultivated land in Chile...

...Marc Becker Abstract Conflicts on the Zumbahua hacienda in the highlands of the South American country of Ecuador in the 1930s and 1940s present insights into the nature of rural social relations. Both wealthy landholders and Indigenous agricultural workers experimented with discursive elements...

... landowner who turned his haciendas into private agricultural experiment stations, conducting research on better methods of growing corn, cotton, wheat, and beans with the labor of his peones. He shared his results through lecture tours and published works in Mexico and traveled extensively in the United...

... has a vast historiography, the authors state that Yucatán s experience in this history has been relatively unexplored. As the authors ar- Book Reviews 401 gue, sugar haciendas did not produce enough to satisfy the local demand, let alone enter the system of world trade. Instead, these producers relied...

... the commodification of rum, the authors could have also considered the broader temperance phenomenon in both Mexico and the United States across the ideological spectrum. The authors aptly remark that in order to understand the henequen hacienda, we must understand rum, and to understand rum, we must understand...

... a translation. Jeffrey m. pilcher University of Toronto Scarborough Biography of a Hacienda: Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico. By elizabeth Terese newman. Tucson: university of Arizona press, 2014. 272 pp., $29.95, paperback, isBn 978-0-8165-3073-1. Few works bring into question the divide between academic...

... in this ritual linger inmoral stories told among contemporary Ecuadorian mestizo families. Memories of the hacienda endure and con tinue to influence moral and social discourses and expectations across Ecuadorian society in general. The last section of the book looks at social and religious transformations after...

... the largest sugar plantations amazed even the most skeptical civilians. Another part of the reform effort was carried out in the Andean highlands, dissolving the traditional hacienda system and liberating the Indigenous colono population who were obligated to work without pay in exchange for small...

... of Chicago Press, 1950), 65, 157; Robert Redfield, The Folk Culture of Yucatan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 157, 158. See also Lee J. Alston, Shannan Mattiace, and Tomas Nonnenmacher, “Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870–1915...

... – 30 . 32. Hacienda, Registro de Tasación de la Propiedad , 1920–1921 , receipts 657–62, Cayey, AGPR. 33. US Bureau of Corporations , Position of the Tobacco Combination , 298 – 99 ; Porto Rican Leaf Tobacco Co. , “Annual Report,” July 30 , 1907 , box 3, file 65, Departamento...

... Census of United States taken in 1920 , Vol. 6 , Pt. 3 ( Washington, DC : GPO , 1922 ); Boxes 1910 and 1920, Series Registro de tasación y contribución sobre la propiedad, Caguas, Collection Hacienda, Archivo General de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (hereafter AGPR). 14. Thirteenth Census...

... Aires : Compañía Sudamericana de Billetes de Banco , 1895–1905 ); Ministerio de Hacienda, Dirección General de Estadística de la Nación , Anuario del Comercio Exterior de la República Argentina ( Buenos Aires : Ministerio de Hacienda , 1905/6—1941 ). Hereafter cited as Argentine Import Data...

... Sociales Archives, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia (hereafter FAES). 8. Lorente , “La ganadería bovina,” 333 . 9. Orlando Fals Borda , Capitalismo, Hacienda y Poblamiento: Su Desarrollo en la Costa Atlántica ( Bogotá : Punta de Lanza , 1976 ), 38 ; Salomón Kalmanovitz...

..., Manual De La Isla De Cuba , 142; Thomas Salazar, Cartilla Agraria Para El Cultivo Del Tabaco (Impr. del Gobierno y Capitanía General y Real Hacienda por S.M., 1850), 6. 30. “Expediente sobre autos de intestado de Don Manuel Martinez Nuñez donde su viuda Doña Clara Martinez de Nelosea [ ] una...

... land and water claims and fight over territorial boundaries with haciendas. Focusing on the localized Zapatista agrarian reform, a process that remains understudied, Baitenmann finds that Zapatista leadership resolved conflicts in the form of temporary repartos in their attempts to deal...

... approach make Biography of a Hacienda a work that scholars of nineteenth-century rural society in latin America will want to read. carmen kordick Roosevelt University North America The Merchants Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South. By scott p. marler. cambridge...

... their hacienda from confiscation. Henderson's goal is to locate Evans's life within the chaos of the revo? lution. She and Harry made the importune decision to purchase San Pedro Coxtocan in 1906, just four years before the outbreak of a struggle in which foreign landowners would become key targets for agrarian...

... on the Northern Frontier of New Spain (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996 ), 123 Rick Hendricks , "Santa Maria de las Caldas and the Hacienda de San Antonio: Diligencias Matrimoniales from the Lost Curacy, 1733-1739," Nuestras Raíces6 (Fall1994): 115 -32 John L. Kessell , Rick...