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Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 01 April 2009
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392101-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9210-1
Series: Objects/Histories
Published: 14 May 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822399704-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9970-4
Published: 05 June 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394563-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9456-3
Published: 24 August 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478012467-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1246-7
Book Chapter

By Monica Huerta
Series: Writing Matters!
Published: 28 June 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021483-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2148-3
Published: 01 January 1990
DOI: 10.1215/9780822381617-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8161-7
Book Chapter

By Sara Safransky
Published: 30 June 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024613-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2461-3
... and suburbanization, this chapter uncovers how one of the world’s largest tax-foreclosure auctions functioned as a technology of wealth transfer. It traces its origins to a well-organized US property and states’ rights movement that aimed to privatize public land, discipline the poor, and preserve ruling elite...
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373339-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7333-9
... auction to imaginatively read for her will in stray gestures. Tryntjie of Madagascar Myth of romance Seduction Cape slavery ...
Book Chapter

By Mary R. Desjardins
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 09 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376033-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7603-3
... The explosion of new media technologies, formats, and venues has increased the amount of and possibilities for star recyclings. Online venues such as social networking sites (Facebook), blogs, wikis, video-sharing sites (YouTube), and even virtual auctions (eBay) are the locations where many...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-041
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... to be auctioned off. The land sales were intended to reduce the state’s debt obligations, and by the end of the Melgarejo period, some 1.25 million pesos worth of land had been sold to expanding hacienda, mining, and speculative interests, in many cases closely linked to Melgarejo. Amid the chaos and uncertainty...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-037
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... required to buy individual land titles for between twenty-five and one hundred pesos in accordance to size. A later decree, in 1868, intensified the measure by permitting entire communities that could not produce colonial land titles to be auctioned off. The land sales were intended to reduce the state’s...