Agrarian rebellion and defense of community: meaning and collective violence in late colonial and independence-era Mexico.
From: Journal of Social History
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Date: 12/22/1993
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Author: Van Young, Eric
Agrarian and other economic pressures must be seen as major factors not only in increasing rural violence in late colonial Mexico, but also in the outbreak and peculiarly localistic character of the movement for independence from Spain (1810-1821). Yet a systematic agrarian violence, expropriation of large estates, or an identifiable agrarian ideology or program were not generalized features of popular rebellion. The reasons for this are to be found in the continuing capacity of the royalist ...
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