LAIS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Agave Fourcroydes, Yuppie, Guano
25 Dec 2017
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Homework: film discussion paper (350 words minimum ) due november 2, writing assignment #2 (upload to gauchospace and print -- due next thursday - Common elements of peasant revolutions of the 20th century. Ecological dislocations: expansion of plantation and export economy at the expense of peasant communities. Demographic dislocations: population growth making all available land scarce. Political dislocations: old systems of representation and intermediation become obsolete. The main forces of the revolutionary upheaval are amongst those who have a minimum standard of independence and autonomy in mexico: the peasant communities of morelos and the nomadic ranchers and cattle-herders-cowboys of the northern plains. In cuba: the small peasantry of the sierra maestra and the orient provinces seriously affected by sugar plantations encroachments. 3rd the state provide education (free of religious influence) 27th agrarian reform: limiting the size of rural property, recognizing communal ownership of land indigenous communities, creating new peasant communities based also on the communal ownership of land- ejidos.
