Author: Robert H. Holden
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ISBN: 9780875801810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In shaping modern Mexico, few events have been more crucial than the division of public lands. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Holden offers the first systematic study of prerevolutionary Mexico's public land surveys. He examines the role of private survey companies hired by the governments of Manuel Gonzalez and Porfirio Diaz, demonstrating that the companies were both the agents and the beneficiaries of the greatest single movement of public property in Mexico's history. In a controversial process involving land holders, judges, lawyers, and politicians, survey companies reaped in compensation one-third of all the land they surveyed. Holden reports that in one decade, from 1883 to 1893 up to fifty private companies received 18.4 million hectares of land, approximately one-tenth the total area of Mexico. Basing his study on official archival records, Holden details the conflicts between private and public interests, challenging long-held impressions about the surveying companies. He shows how the state used private surveyors to insulate itself from the politically risky consequences of the surveys. Rejecting the view that the companies were the instruments of a land-hungry elite that worked along-side a corrupt government to plunder the peasantry, he concludes that the federal government generally respected land holders' claims in disputes with the surveyors. Arguing that the Mexican government acted more flexibly and autonomously than has been recognized, Holden explores the state's management of such conflicting interests as maintaining peace in the countryside and furnishing clear titles to property. He interprets government attempts to "recover" survey-company land grants after 1920 mainly as efforts to strengthen state authority in the countryside.
Mexico and the Survey of Public Lands
Author: Robert H. Holden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875801810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In shaping modern Mexico, few events have been more crucial than the division of public lands. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Holden offers the first systematic study of prerevolutionary Mexico's public land surveys. He examines the role of private survey companies hired by the governments of Manuel Gonzalez and Porfirio Diaz, demonstrating that the companies were both the agents and the beneficiaries of the greatest single movement of public property in Mexico's history. In a controversial process involving land holders, judges, lawyers, and politicians, survey companies reaped in compensation one-third of all the land they surveyed. Holden reports that in one decade, from 1883 to 1893 up to fifty private companies received 18.4 million hectares of land, approximately one-tenth the total area of Mexico. Basing his study on official archival records, Holden details the conflicts between private and public interests, challenging long-held impressions about the surveying companies. He shows how the state used private surveyors to insulate itself from the politically risky consequences of the surveys. Rejecting the view that the companies were the instruments of a land-hungry elite that worked along-side a corrupt government to plunder the peasantry, he concludes that the federal government generally respected land holders' claims in disputes with the surveyors. Arguing that the Mexican government acted more flexibly and autonomously than has been recognized, Holden explores the state's management of such conflicting interests as maintaining peace in the countryside and furnishing clear titles to property. He interprets government attempts to "recover" survey-company land grants after 1920 mainly as efforts to strengthen state authority in the countryside.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875801810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In shaping modern Mexico, few events have been more crucial than the division of public lands. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Holden offers the first systematic study of prerevolutionary Mexico's public land surveys. He examines the role of private survey companies hired by the governments of Manuel Gonzalez and Porfirio Diaz, demonstrating that the companies were both the agents and the beneficiaries of the greatest single movement of public property in Mexico's history. In a controversial process involving land holders, judges, lawyers, and politicians, survey companies reaped in compensation one-third of all the land they surveyed. Holden reports that in one decade, from 1883 to 1893 up to fifty private companies received 18.4 million hectares of land, approximately one-tenth the total area of Mexico. Basing his study on official archival records, Holden details the conflicts between private and public interests, challenging long-held impressions about the surveying companies. He shows how the state used private surveyors to insulate itself from the politically risky consequences of the surveys. Rejecting the view that the companies were the instruments of a land-hungry elite that worked along-side a corrupt government to plunder the peasantry, he concludes that the federal government generally respected land holders' claims in disputes with the surveyors. Arguing that the Mexican government acted more flexibly and autonomously than has been recognized, Holden explores the state's management of such conflicting interests as maintaining peace in the countryside and furnishing clear titles to property. He interprets government attempts to "recover" survey-company land grants after 1920 mainly as efforts to strengthen state authority in the countryside.
Survey of Public Lands in New Mexico. Memorial of the Legislature of New Mexico, in Relation to Survey of the Public Lands of that Territory
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
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Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Surveying Our Public Lands
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Contract of the Mexican Government for the Survey of the Public Lands in the State of Sonora
The Mexican State Manages Modernization
Author: Robert Haig Holden
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Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Publisher:
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Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Granting Certain Public Lands to New Mexico for the Use and Benefit of Public Institutions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys
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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Granting Certain Public Lands to New Mexico for the Use and Benefit of Public Institutions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys
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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Category : Land grants
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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A History of the Rectangular Survey System
Author: C. Albert White
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Survey of Public Lands in New Mexico. Memorial of the Legislature of New Mexico, in Relation to Survey of the Public Lands of that Territory. April 11, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Law and Regulations as to Public Lands for Colonization Purposes in Mexico
Author: Mexico
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Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Category : Agricultural colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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