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Robert Holden - Mexico & the Survey of Public Lands - 9780875801810 - V9780875801810
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Mexico & the Survey of Public Lands

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Description for Mexico & the Survey of Public Lands Hardcover. Num Pages: 251 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: TNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. .

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875801810
SKU
V9780875801810
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Ref
99-1

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