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The experiences of the United States’ own agrarian history and the New Deal, together with the influence of modernization theory, shaped the thinking of US policy makers. Poverty and inequality were seen as the main causes of rebellions and uprisings.
In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lázaro Cárdenas'...
1 lip 2023 · This paper analyzes the evolution of rural conflict in a region of 1930s Spain in which fast transfers of land using temporal expropriations were aimed at reducing poverty and mitigate conflict. Using a subset of exogenous land transfers, we document that these transfers did not reduce conflict.
1 lut 2019 · In the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, elected on a platform that promised to address the 1929 economic crisis through state intervention, launched a campaign to revitalize southern agricultural production while relieving the social and economic conditions of local sharecroppers.
1 lis 2009 · The give- and-take between the arbiters makes for suspenseful, dramatic reading, and in The Agrarian Dispute John J. Dwyer tells the story well. The most famous expropriation of the period occurred on March 18, 1938, when Cárdenas nationalized the properties of...
9 lis 2021 · Spain constitutes an optimal case to study the long-term effects of agrarian inequality. According to Simpson and Carmona (2020), land reform and land-related conflict were the main triggers of the collapse of the Second Republic and the posterior Civil War (1936–39).
12 wrz 2008 · Dwyer’s nuanced analysis of this conflict at the local, regional, national, and international levels combines social, economic, political, and cultural history. He argues that the agrarian...
