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The rancheros of Pisaflores : the history of a peasant bourgeoisie in twentieth-century Mexico / Frans J. Schryer

By:

Schryer, Frans J

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1980Description: 210 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

0802054668

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LAS 301 SCH

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Summary: This case study of the 'ranchero' region of Sierra Alta de Hidalgo offers a new perspective on the rancheros and their role in the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath. Focusing on the economic and political history of the municipio of Pisaflores over the past hundred years, the author demonstrates that the rancheros were not subsistence family farmers, as they have been described by other scholars, but commercial farmers, a local elite employing wage labourers.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 301 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		064711

Introduction -- pt. 1. Land tenure and politics in the Sierra Alta -- The history of a ranchero economy -- Village politics and class structure : an analysis -- pt. 2. Pisaflores : a case study of agrarian politics -- Landowners as 'revolutionaries' : 1910-32 -- Agrarianism as politics : 1932-44 -- PRI patronage and factional politics : 1965-60 -- Middle peasants in the struggle for land -- A case study of co-optation : 1960-76 -- Conclusion.

This case study of the 'ranchero' region of Sierra Alta de Hidalgo offers a new perspective on the rancheros and their role in the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath. Focusing on the economic and political history of the municipio of Pisaflores over the past hundred years, the author demonstrates that the rancheros were not subsistence family farmers, as they have been described by other scholars, but commercial farmers, a local elite employing wage labourers.

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