The Mexican Hacienda between the Insurgency and the Revolution

Maize Production and Commercial Triumph on theTemporal

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3353071
AutoresSimon Miller (0000-0002-6481-5917, autor de correspondencia)
Año1984
Volumen16
Número2
Páginas309-336
Fecha de publicación1984-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x00007094
OpenAlexW2069248201
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas7

When Andrés Molina Enríquez wrote his polemical attack on the Mexican hacienda, published on the eve of the Revolution, he was particularly scathing about the cereal estates of themesa central. According to his arguments, these were the properties most typically 'feudal', and thus he characterized them as vast tracts of land, under-used and undercapitalized, serving only to legitimize the seigneurial status of an elite class of rentier landowners. The proprietors were similarly castigated for preferring the low-risk security of irrigated crops, and for their withdrawal from the uncertainties of maize production on thetemporallands. As a result of these policies the routine supply of maize, the food grain of the nation, was, or so he argued, left to the efforts and tenacity of a multitude of smallholders and Indian villagers with access to a mere tenth of the cultivable of smallholders and Indian villagers with access to a mere tenth of the cultivable terrain

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