... review cannot do justice to it. All specialists in the colonial period should read it. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-031 Book Reviews 755 The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico. By John...

...Frank Salomon Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform . By Mayer Enrique . Latin America Otherwise Series . Mignolo Walter D. , Silverblatt Irene , and Saldíver-Hull Sonia , eds. ( Durham : Duke University Press , 2009 . 323 pp., photographs, tables, maps . $23.95...

... hacienda de la epoca colonial . Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. On Agrarian Landholdings in Post-Conquest Rural Mesoamerica Thomas H. Charlton, University of Iowa 6817 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:1 / sheet...

... Reformer of the Revolutionary Era . Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Taylor, William B. 1972 Landlord and Peasant in Colonial Oaxaca . Stanford, ca: Stanford University Press. Tutino, John 1986 From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940...

... organizations have emerged in the Maya-speaking 666 Book Reviews population of the Yucatán peninsula’’ (161). Perhaps, however, it is just a matter of time. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popu- lar Struggle, and Agrarian...

.... The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906–1927. By Timothy J. Henderson. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 1998. viii + 288 pp., introduction, prologue...

... Anthropologist 92 : 586 -96. Wolf, Eric R., and Sidney W. Mintz 1957 Haciendas and Plantations in Middle America and the Antilles. Social and Economic Studies 6 : 411 -380. Introduction: Haciendas and Agrarian Change in Rural Mesoamerica...

... the chronic labor problems that had plagued the former colony since its formation. Interdisciplinary research at the Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla and in its associated descendant communities offers a case study of some of the tactics that may have been used to control agrarian workers during the century...

... Maya during colonial times. They provide detailed, sometimes daily, records of the impact of famines caused by multiyear droughts, hurricanes, and plagues of locusts on the agrarian population of the peninsula, which supplement the brief, impressionistic accounts of historians. American Society...

...Brendan J. M. Weaver Abstract The implementation of the Velasco administration’s agrarian reforms in the 1970s transformed Peru’s rural landscape and the ways in which communities relate to the physical reminders of the time of the haciendas. Community engagement during recent archaeological...

... frontier in colonial Yucatán, underwent radical change between 1780 and 1830. Political and agrarian upheaval coupled with the increasing production of sugarcane drew Spanish and Creole elites to Tekax, increased local property values, and drove the once majority Maya population into the countryside...

... of Spanish agrarian enterprise,on the one hand, and colonial Indian society, on the other. American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Brading, D. A. 1978 Haciendas and Ranchos in the Mexican Bajío: León 1700-1860 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brinckmann S., Lutz 1989 Natalidad y...

..., the book documents how agrarian reform came to Yucatán, how reaction- ary opposition and political infighting crippled the project, and how some- thing was ultimately gained despite the project’s overall failure...

... peasant society. As in Mesoamerica and other rural areas of Latin America, the expansion of private commercial agriculture that followed the Spanish conquest fostered long-standing frictions between Indian communities and haciendas. In the Andean case, however, some of the roots of the agrarian...

..., the book documents how agrarian reform came to Yucatán, how reaction- ary opposition and political infighting crippled the project, and how some- thing was ultimately gained despite the project’s overall failure...

... University of America In the wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910–20), a new political estab- lishment attempted to implement a variety of radical reforms within Mexican society. Among these were agrarian policies that aimed to redis- tribute land from the wealthy to the rural peasantry, an educational...

.... The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906–1927. By Timothy J. Henderson. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 1998. viii + 288 pp., introduction, prologue...

.... The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906–1927. By Timothy J. Henderson. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 1998. viii + 288 pp., introduction, prologue...

.... The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906–1927. By Timothy J. Henderson. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 1998. viii + 288 pp., introduction, prologue...

.... The Worm in the Wheat: Rosalie Evans and Agrarian Struggle in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Mexico, 1906–1927. By Timothy J. Henderson. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 1998. viii + 288 pp., introduction, prologue...