Helga Baitenmann

Matters of Justice

Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian Reform in Revolutionary Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Helga Baitenmann offers an original interpretation of Mexico’s revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary’s authority over contentious land matters, and examines villagers’ role in shaping the postrevolutionary state by siding with one branch of government over another.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781496215581
• ISBN-10: 1496215583
• Artikelnr.: 58299283

Autorenporträt

Helga Baitenmann is an associate fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London. She is the coeditor of Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hidden Histories of Revolutionary Agrarian Reform
1. The Inherent Difficulties of Winning Pueblo Land and Water Suits in
Nineteenth-Century Mexico
2. Pueblo Land and Water Claims during the Madero Administration, 1911–1913
3. The Zapatista Land Reform, 1911–1916
4. The Constitutionalist Land Reform in the Absence of the Judiciary,
1914–1917
5. The Return of the Judiciary in Uncertain Times, 1917–1924
6. The Morelos Laboratory, 1920–1924
Epilogue: Zapatista and Constitutionalist Agrarian Reforms Compared
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index