Emilio Kourí A Pueblo Divided | sku-724115805 Hardcover

Emilio Kourí's A Pueblo Divided (sku-724115805) is a hardcover title in Latin American History Books. It examines the violent privatization of communal land in Papantla, a Mexican Indian village where vanilla production and exports grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century. The book presents the first study of village land privatization in Mexico.

It traces the commercial, political, demographic, fiscal and legal pressures that led to strife, rebellion and parcelization. It also shows how indigenous villagers took part in dividing communal property, challenging accounts that cast them as passive.

The loss of communal landholding has long been identified as a leading cause of the Revolution of 1910, though the process has received little research. Papantla's history challenges prevailing views of rural change in pre-revolutionary Mexico.