Intimate enemies : landowners, power, and violence in Chiapas / Aaron Bobrow-Strain.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Duke University Press Books.
Main Author: Bobrow-Strain, Aaron, 1969-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Duke University Press Books.
Subjects:
Landowners > Mexico > Chiapas > History.
Elite (Social sciences) > Mexico > Chiapas > History.
Land reform > Mexico > Chiapas > History.
Social conflict > Mexico > Chiapas > History.
Violence > Mexico > Chiapas > History.
Chiapas (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
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Physical Description:xv, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Honest shadows : ethnography and ordinary tyrants
  • Landed relations, landowner identities : race, space, power, and political economy
  • Children of the magic fruit : the making of a landed elite, 1850-1920
  • Killing Pedro Chulín : landowners, revolution, and reform, 1920-1962
  • The dead at Golonchán : cattle, crisis, and conflict, 1962-1994
  • The invasions of 1994-1998 : estate agriculture unglued
  • Import-substitution dreaming : producing landowners' place in the nation
  • Geographies of fear, spaces of quiescence
  • The agrarian spiral.