HIST 1F96 Lecture : HIST 1F96 Winter Lecture 4
10 Feb 2012
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Latin america y undermining communal landholding y debt peonage/wage labour (previously looked specifically at argentina) In peru, believed indigenous communal land should be broken up into individual properties owned by individual families. Didn t break up large estates owned by creole elites. The elites wanted to ensure a labour force of indigenous people on their estates and wanted some of the broken up land. Tribute was abolished in the 1850s however, economic expansion in the late 19th century particularly the production of natural resources led to greater encroachment on indigenous land. By the 1980s with the development of railroads, mining, and other technological advancements there was intense effort to get broken up land and impose labour on native people. In mexico a liberal government confiscated both catholic churches and native land which was sold to large estates. Porfirio diaz was a general and established a dictatorship called a porfiriato.
