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Land Reform in Puerto Rico : Modernizing the Colonial State, 1941-1969 /
In 1941 a land redistribution plan was aimed at empowering landless workers by placing them in houses and building communities for them. Garcia-Colon assesses the technical and political aspects and the ways the Puerto Rican people resisted accomodated, and influenced the development this plan broug...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Gainesville, Fla. :
University Press of Florida,
2009.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- On being landless : the expansion of agrarian capitalism and the crisis of the 1930s
- Land distribution and the rise of a new party politics
- Government planning and the policies of land resettlement
- Close encounters of colonialism : state formation in the Parcelas
- Community formation and livelihood
- Aftermath : Parcelas, a showcase for democracy and development.