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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: García-Colón, Ismael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Land tenure.
Land reform.
Reforme agraire > Porto Rico > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Land tenure > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Land reform > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Puerto Rico.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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