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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (2): 362–363.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Mark Wasserman Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate . By Paxman Andrew . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 509 pp. Cloth , $34.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (4): 735–736.
Published: 01 November 1995
...Julio César Pino The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest: Social Change and Adaptation Among Migrant Farmworkers . By Barger W. K. and Reza Ernesto M. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1994 . Photographs. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 235 pp. Cloth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (2): 327–328.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Teresa Meade Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939 . By Guerin-Gonzales Camille . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1994 . Photographs. Appendix. Notes. Index . xi , 197 pp. Cloth , $42.00 . Paper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (2): 391–392.
Published: 01 May 1983
... played a dominating role in the rural economy. The Quito pattern of property acquisition and estate development (chaps. 2-3) as well as details surrounding farm, mill (obraje), and ranch activities, rural labor and financial management (chaps. 4-7) show parallel tendencies to those found in highland...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (3): 561–562.
Published: 01 August 1980
...Roger P. Davis The Farm on the River of Emeralds . By Thomsen Moritz . Boston , 1978 . Houghton Mifflin Company . Pp. 329 . Cloth. $10.95 . Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Moritz Thomsen has written a delightful and deceptive memoir, the significance of which...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 583.
Published: 01 August 1979
...Ellwyn R. Stoddard Hired Hands: Seasonal Farm Workers in the United States . By Sosnick Stephen H. . Santa Barbara , 1978 . McNally and Loftin, West . Tables. Notes. Index . Pp. xi , 453 . Cloth. $20.00 . Paper. $14.95 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (4): 768–769.
Published: 01 November 1979
...Robert G. Keith Haciendas, Plantations and Collective Farms: Agrarian Class Societies, Cuba and Peru . By Martínez-Alier Juan . London , 1977 . Frank Cass and Company . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 185 . Cloth . $19.50 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1955) 35 (4): 563.
Published: 01 November 1955
...N. L. Whetten People in Ejidos. A Visit to the Cooperative Farms of Mexico . By Infield Henrik F. and Freier Koka . New York , 1954 . Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. International Library of the Sociology of Coöperation . Pp. 151 . $3.00 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (4): 619–659.
Published: 01 November 2004
... a complex structure and that included large numbers of extended kin and free retainers were the exception, not the rule. At least in this regard, plantation and cane-farming households in Santiago do Iguape resembled households in nonplantation areas of Southeastern Brazil far more than might be expected...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 237–269.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Doug Yarrington The transition from tax farming to the direct bureaucratic administration of taxation, long recognized as a critical phase in the formation of centralized states, has received little consideration in studies of Latin America. Analysis of this fiscal transition can yield insights...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (4): 846–847.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Kent H. Redford Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia . By Chibnik Michael . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1994 . Maps. Graphs. Tables. Figure. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xx , 267 pp. Cloth . $25.95 . Copyright...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (3): 509–510.
Published: 01 August 1990
...David Bushnell Our Daily Bread: The Peasant Question and Family Farming in the Colombian Andes . By Reinhardt Nola . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1988 . Maps. Tables. Photographs. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 308 . Cloth . Copyright 1990...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (1): 41–71.
Published: 01 February 2012
... justice. As engineers struggled to fertilize the briny lands at a reasonable cost, many urban planners proposed lake conservation and afforestation over drainage and farming to secure urban prosperity. But the agricultural vision remained dominant. In the 1950s and ’60s, however, urbanization...
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Published: 01 May 2013
Figure 1 Joe Louis, with Fidel Castro and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós, wearing a guajiro (farm or peasant) hat on New Year’s Eve, 1959, at the Havana Hilton. Credit : AP Images. More
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (4): 617–642.
Published: 01 November 1980
... of local society from the relative egalitarianism of subsistence farming to a society characterized by stratification and class tensions. The principal conflict was between immigrant merchants and criollo coffee farmers, and the economic struggle between these two sectors of the Lares elite eventually...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (4): 593–594.
Published: 01 November 1992
... descent than did any other industry. In addressing this neglected history of Latino farm workers, the author challenges the conventional wisdom that labor relations in agriculture lagged behind those of industry, that farm workers’ lives were more traditional and changed slowly, and that farm workers were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 445–491.
Published: 01 August 1994
... of Developing Areas 16 (July 1982), 573–96. Oscar A. Salas Marrero and Rodrigo Barahona Israel estimate, on the basis of surveys of selected areas, that in Costa Rica at least half the farms censused in 1963 did not have legal titles; in Coto Brus, the figure was over 90 percent. These estimates included only...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 May 2005
..., the authorities in Carazo seem to have favored the local development of a substantial population of subsistence farmers, seasonally available to harvest coffee. Continued access to communally controlled land, a growing number of small privately owned plots, and expanding coffee production on larger farms led many...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 361–362.
Published: 01 May 2000
... findings provide a number of interesting conclusions. The most important revolve around the role that small farms played in the regional economy. According to Gelman, people with the ambition to farm found ample open land. Relying on the exploitation of the labor that their household provided, with wage...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 2000
.... The breakdown of the “agricultural ladder” (the assumption that farm laborers would eventually work their way up to farm ownership) and the increasing competition between whites, Mexicans, and blacks led to a complex swirl of social and political consequences. Women of all races continued to be constrained...