...Carmen Soliz Abstract When analyzing the effects of the 1952 Bolivian Revolution in the countryside, scholars have highlighted the political role of the colonos (tenants) and the extended program of land redistribution of large estates that started soon after the government decreed the agrarian...

... vez profundamente racista y xenófobo, y estigmatizó a los colonos chinos como causantes de muchos de los problemas de la sociedad sonorense de la época. Cárdenas estudia cómo ese sentimiento nacionalista permeó a las clases populares y a las elites económicas y políticas regionales. El ensayo de...

... repetitive detail, the economic situation of several hundred thousand colono families in the postslavery era is subsumed in the baseless assertion that wages were higher in Argentina. Here, Lesser revives the tired mythology that immigrant coffee colonos everywhere and always suffered unmitigated...

... mobilization. First, we argue that the structural transformations of the 1920s created two relatively new social groups: colonos (resident laborers) and semiproletarianized villagers, both of which played key roles in the mobilization. These new “precipitates of cap- italism” had historical roots...

...), auctioning large tracts of land to private individu- als, and promoting the settlement of now “vacant” lands with foreign colonos (colonists or settlers). However, the project of promoting immigration to the frontier ended in failure. Compared to neighboring Argentina, Chile received relatively few...

... procesos identitarios colectivos, la indianización y el Estado. Aquí, el trabajo de Alain Beaulieu analiza la participación de la población originaria en la construcción del Estado-nación canadiense. Por su parte, el ensayo de Denys Delâge reconstruye la interacción cultural entre colonos y amerindios en...

... would allow the peasants to continue to use them while preserving an essential source of national wealth. The government, on the other hand, sought to turn the protesters into proletarianized forest workers, alongside colonos whose resettlement would reduce pressure...

... ability to win and maintain political support from Cochabamba's peasants, workers, and urban middle classes. Through agrarian reform—which encompassed redistribution of both land and water—in the decade that followed, hacienda workers ( colonos ) won control of water sources from haciendas. But this...

... laborers. In 1886, María Antonietta de Felice, an Italian immigrant infamous for her poor treatment of laborers, complained that the Sanpedrano José Coc Delgado “has conquered many of my colonos [resident laborers], so that they pass to live in his lands, telling them that there they will receive...

... apparently also quite credible. Invoking the system of pongueaje , in which colonos (tenant laborers) had to perform unpaid domestic labor for their patrones, Ramón Julio Choque, an illiterate farmworker from southern Potosí, told the magistrate that “I knew of the call, but my patrón made me work in his...

... growing coffee. The debate over the extent to which the coffee labor system could be termed capitalist in Brazil carried forward to the study of the immigrant colono experience that followed abolition undertaken by Emilia Viotti da Costa, Warren Dean, Thomas Holloway...

... transformation of colonos (labor tenants on haciendas) into piqueros (smallholders) was a protracted process with profoundly uneven effects. Some- times the new piqueros gained autonomy and even managed to accumulate wealth; often, however, their lives continued to be marked by poverty and...

... of a squatters' rights group (the Movimiento Restaurador de Colonos) distributing the flyers. 37 The rumors may also have been spread by Jesuit groups, influenced by liberation theology, who had begun ministering in Nezahualcóyotl in 1972. Conservative groups also could have channeled leftist...