ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Government Accountability Office, Commercial Revolution, Barbed Wire
14 Mar 2018
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Late 19th century commercial revolution in northern new mexico. 1880-1888: # of cattle increased from 137k-1. 25 mil. 1870-late 1880s: # of sheep increasing 619k-5 mil. Capitalist mode of production: class based division of labor: capitalists/workers/managers, profit motive/capital accumulation, means of production, market exchange. Enclosure of the commons: privatization, dispossession, free wage labor, incorporation. Culture: commodification of nature: values: competitive individualism > public good, economic growth: market relations, short term profit: externalize costs. Senator benton: capitalized on converting communal land grants to private property because property rights were unclear and incompatible with federal legal systems. 1846: land grant titles destroyed in santa fe fire. 1848: treaty of guadalupe hidalgo, article x. 2004: gao report on treaty of guadalupe hidalgo. Cli(cid:448)e(cid:374) bu(cid:374)d(cid:455): (cid:862)i a(cid:271)ide (cid:271)(cid:455) all of ne(cid:448)ada state la(cid:449)s but i do(cid:374)"t re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ize the us go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t as e(cid:448)e(cid:374) e(cid:454)isti(cid:374)g(cid:863) standoff, march/april 2014. Tierra amarilla land grant: communal grant -> private grant: anglo americans commodified to private property: rio arriba county.
