Land markets and agrarian backwardness (Spain, 1904-1934)

Jean Jacques DuMortier 1904-1934

Jean DuMortier from whom he received a rich physical and mental' inheritance. His early education was received in the Norwalk public schools and at Harstrom's Preparatory School. He went to Williams College for two years, where he creditably participated in athletics-swimming, track, and football. His last two years of college were spent at Columbia University where he received the degree of Ba...

Land Allocation in Vietnam’s Agrarian Transition

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920

Agrarian Change and Privatization of Ejido Land in Northern Mexico

This paper uses the findings of a 1999 case study of ejidos (collective landholdings) in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, a prominent agricultural region of northwest Mexico, to examine responses to a series of economic and legal reforms enacted as part of Mexico’s ‘Reform of the Countryside’, which began in the late 1980s. In particular, it analyses reactions to the 1992 amendment to Article 27 of Me...

The politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change: editors' introduction.

This introduction frames key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. It identifies and explains big questions that provide the starting point for the contributions to this collection. We lay out some of the emerging themes which define the politics of biofuels, land and agrarian change revolving around global ...