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Matters of justice : Pueblos, agrarian reform, and judiciary in revolutionary Mexico
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"Helga Baitenmann offers a novel interpretation of Mexico's revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary's authority over contentious land matters, ...
"Helga Baitenmann offers a novel interpretation of Mexico's revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary's authority over contentious land matters, and examines the role that villagers played in shaping post-revolutionary state formation by siding with the executive branch over the judiciary"--
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- Creator
- Helga Baitenmann
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- English
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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- xiv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1496219481, 1496215583, 9781496215581, 9781496220004, 1496220021, 9781496220011, 9781496219480, 9781496220028
- OCLC
- on1144878286, on1140380541, on1144170443
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Hidden histories of revolutionary agrarian reform -- The inherent difficulties of winning Pueblo land and water suits in nineteenth-century Mexico -- Pueblo land and water claims during the Madero administration, 1911-1913 -- The Zapatista land reform, 1911-1916 -- The constitutionalist land reform in the absence of the judiciary, 1914-1917 -- The return of the judiciary in uncertain times, 1917-1924 -- The Morelos laboratory, 1920-1924 -- Epilogue: Zapatista and constitutionalist agrarian reforms compared