LAIS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Guano, Agave Fourcroydes, Gran Colombia

• School: UCSB
• Department: Latin American and Iberian Studies
• Course: LAIS 10
• Professor: Hugo Santo Gomez

Document Summary

Caudilismo (military leaders) (soul) search for national identity: indians, creoles, blacks . Demise of the so-called corporative social institutions such as the church and the indigenous communities. Leading to the transformation of public lands into private property. An unexpected result: concentration of land ownership into an even larger scale than in colonial times. Modernity (this type of modernity) came along with new technologies and industries brought by international corporations: railways, plantations, ports, ships. Export of agro-communities and raw materials (fruits, coffee, rubber, guano, minerals, henequen, cacao, sugar, etc. ) Labor force from abroad (west indies, europe, japan, etc. )