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Properties of Violence : Law and Land-Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico /
Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, the author examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle. Spain and Mexico populated what is today New Mexico through large common property land grant...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
University of Georgia Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, the author examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle. Spain and Mexico populated what is today New Mexico through large common property land grants to sheepherders and agriculturalists. After the U.S.-Mexican War, the area saw rampant land speculation and dubious property adjudication. Nearly all of the huge land grants scattered throughout New Mexico were rejected by U.S. courts or acquired by land speculators. Of all the land grant conflicts in New Mexico's history, Tierra Amarilla is one of the most sensational, with numerous nineteenth-century speculators ranking among the state's political and economic elite and a remarkable pattern of resistance to land loss by heirs in the twentieth century. The author narrates a long and largely unknown history of property conflict in Tierra Amarilla characterized by nearly constant violence - night riding and fence cutting, pitched gun battles, and tanks rumbling along the rutted dirt roads of northern New Mexico. The legal geography he constructs is one that includes a remarkable cast of characters: millionaire sheep barons, Spanish anarchists, hooded Klansmen, Puerto Rican freedom fighters, or - as J. Edgar Hoover, another one of the characters in this story, would have called them - "terrorists." By placing property and law at the center of this study, this book first reveals and then examines a central irony: violence is not the opposite of law but rather is essential to its operation. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780820345826 |