Latifundia in the Argentine Pampa ...
Author : Frank E. Macpherson
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Frank E. Macpherson
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Roy Hora
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 019154339X
This is a social and political history of the Argentine landowners, for many decades Latin America's most affluent propertied class. Roy Hora develops a historically based view of how socio-economic and political change affected the landowners and was in turn affected by them between the 1860s and 1940s. He questions the excessively static picture of the landowners of the pampas, which unquestioningly accepts the image of power, lineage, and permanence given by both panegyrists and critics of the estancieros. Dr Hora challenges the view of a powerful, reactionary landed class, dominating the country's history from colonial times to the rise of Peronism in the 1940s. But he also challenges revisionist interpretations which seek to de-emphasize the central role played by the landowning class in the evolution of modern Argentina.
Author : Mark Jefferson
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Agricultural colonies
ISBN :
Author : Alan M. Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
This paper uses extensive micro-level data from Argentine agriculture circa 1880-1914 to explore various hypotheses relating to the supposed unusual and favored position enjoyed by the owner-operated large scale estates (latifundia) on the pampas as compared to small-scale units operated by cash tenants and sharecroppers. I have access to several data sets which allow me to explore whether tenancy and scale mattered as determinants of technique and efficiency in the rural estates of Buenos Aires province at the turn of the century, and I obtain some surprising results. Tenants did not seem disadvantaged in terms of access to land. Accumulation of land in and of itself produced no direct gain in terms of augmented land prices (due to say, scale economies or monopoly power). And tenancy status appears to have mattered very little as a determinant of investment choices. I conclude that the case against the latifundia, and the pessimistic conventional view of tenant farming on the pampas rests, at present, on little firm quantitative evidence.
Author :
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1987-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0804765650
The Argentine and Canadian wheat economies, starting from very similar positions in the late nineteenth century, had diverged startlingly by 1930. In wheat production and export Argentina had stagnated and declined, while Canada had surged to a position of world leadership. This book explains how Canada had outpaced Argentina, a country with better growing conditions and a much shorter haul to port. The author finds the explanation in how differing government policies affected the paths the Canadian and Argentine wheat economies took. The author's investigations center on several key questions: In what ways did Canadian and Argentine policy makers and wheat growers attempt to improve their competitive positions by introducing efficient marketing systems, research, and agricultural education? How responsive were the two political systems to questions of land tenure, the role of immigrants, and political representation in the wheat regions? In sum, how did quite different views on the role of the state affect the outcome? The book is in three parts. The first provides a basic political and economic overview of Argentine and Canadian history between 1880 and 1930. The second part analyzes and compares the two countries' basic agricultural development policies. In the third part the focus moves away from a topical emphasis and shifts to an analysis of major agricultural policy issues in the two countries. The concluding chapter presents some final thoughts on the different paths of agrarian development in the two countries.
Author : Walter Nugent
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1992-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253209535
"The primary purpose of this book is to pull together in one place the main contours of population change in the Atlantic region during the 1870-1914 period. That region, for present purposes, includes Europe, North America, South America, and to a slight degree Africa"--p. 3.
Author : Martin E Pineiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000314006
This book presents the intellectual production of the first phase of the Cooperative Research Project on Agricultural Technology in Latin America (PROTAAL) and the most relevant papers presented by invitees at a meeting held in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 1981.
Author : Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2006-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521812900
An indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America's economic development.
Author : Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1350134309
From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes across national borders the book develops a new transnational understanding of Hispanic culture in South America and expands the scope of the contemporary environmental humanities. Texts covered include works by: Ciro Alegría, Manoel de Barros, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Rómulo Gallegos, José Eustasio Rivera, João Guimarães Rosa, and Domingo Sarmiento.
Author : Samuel Amaral
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521523110
Amaral focuses on the estancia, livestock firms, that led the economic growth of Buenos Aires in the early 1800s.