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... forests—due in part to their brackish location—escaped elite monopolization. This study investigates the relationship between two peripheral populations: the mangroves at the fringes of the colonial landscape, and the peoples at the margins of the plantation economy. 3 Brazil’s rural poor, landless...

...Astrid Cubano Iguina Our Landless Patria: Marginal Citizenship and Race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880 – 1910 . By Carrasquillo Rosa E. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2006 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xxiv , 202 pp...

... as a result. Influential political figures and leading intellectuals have widely accepted these narratives of landlessness and proletarianization. The book starts with a critique of a widespread but related narrative that Puerto Rico had been a haven for a “legion of proprietors” before the invasion...

... of the population only possessed two percent of the land. 47 However, more detailed studies of the different categories of rural property listed in the last census taken before the overthrow of the Porfiriato indicate that a considerable number of farmers were neither hacendados nor poor landless peasants...

... in many regions of Mexico as the twentieth century began. Many families confronted widening landlessness, worsening insecurity in employment and tenancy, and stagnating wages in the face of rising prices. Miller demonstrates that insofar as such difficulties resulted from estate activities (factors...

... normally barred from sale. Generally these lands were farmed by labradores on short-term leases. In the South, but sometimes also in the Center, large compact properties devoted to growing grain were leased by tenant farmers who used cheap, landless day laborers during brief periods of the year...

... to their residents (see Table I ). This is a minimum figure. I have corrected the original survey to account for two communities reported as landless, but which other sources revealed as possessing land. These may not have been the only villages reluctant to report the existence of community holdings...

... trading system. The transition to a market economy and coffee monoculture had begun. During the 1850s and 1860s, the gradual spread of coffee cultivation affected the lives of nearly all the municipality’s residents. 12 Landowners with farms of all sizes planted coffee. The landless were employed...

... characterizing contemporary Brazil are the rise of urban violence and the conflict between agribusiness and landless workers. The former divides populations living in cities along fault lines of a formal, gated, market economy against an informal, clandestine economic sector dominated by the drug trade...

... suffers from basic contradictions that have complicated its history of land ownership: the fifth largest country in the world, it faces land scarcity — or more precisely a lack of access to land. With nearly four million landless people, it has the second highest inequality of land ownership in the world...

... frameworks is perhaps best seen in Gustavo Paz’s chapter “ ‘El orden es desorden,’ ” which traces campesino mobilization in Jujuy. Paz explains how members of the landless and laboring classes reinvented themselves as gaucho combatants by claiming military exemptions ( fueros ) that freed them from paying...

... and thrived, especially in central and western Brazil. The result is that the traditional landed class and the landless poor have become a small but significant part of the larger system of political and economic power in Brazil. The country now is one of the three or four most productive agricultural...

... of Mexico. Hamnett downplays the existence of a major agrarian revolution coinciding with the independence period and argues that there did not appear to be major efforts by tenants and the landless to occupy or to redistribute hacienda lands. Although the evidence is fragmentary, the topic deserves...

... identity—as they pressed on with local struggles to regain community lands. The unfavorable political climate that followed the withdrawal of Múgica and his coterie forced landless villagers to seek new sources of political and ideological leadership. The villagers turned inward, to people who resided...

..., and cultivate the land granted them. This colonization scheme was designed to repopulate the frontier with Chilean citizens and establish a stable social order of sedentary small farmers and male-headed households. The southern frontier would serve as a social safety valve by absorbing landless peasants...

... of the provincial elite initiated the revolt as a political uprising, but the impoverished, landless masses turned it into a social movement that threatened the status quo. Yet the Cabanada never became more than a jacquerie, for “the peasant masses are historically incapable of revolutionary initiatives” (p. 166...

... and their social characters, in the case of Mexico, the independent campesinos, the landless jornaleros , the ambitious middle class, the entrepreneurs, and the politicos. It is the interaction and conflict between different social characters, with their different economic as well as cultural strivings, which...

... banana companies advocated the removal of illegal Salvadoran immigrants as a means of temporarily deflecting calls for serious redistributive policies. In El Salvador, the landowning class felt threatened by the forced return of so many landless peasants. Bruno Bologna contends that fear of increased...

... by landless laborers or devoted almost exclusively to grazing. Indeed, as can be readily seen from the photograph (opposite page 32), San Cristóbal’s immediate surroundings are largely given over to grazing, whereas the small plots, the minifundios, for intensive cultivation are on the steep slopes where land...