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A Mexican Family Empire

• Author(s): Charles H. Harris

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2014-03-19
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• Publisher: University of Texas Press

Perhaps no other institution has had a more significant impact on Latin American history than the large landed estate—the hacienda. In Mexico, the latifundio, an estate usually composed of two or more haciendas, dominated the social and economic structure of the country for four hundred years. A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America—the latifundio of the Sánchez Navarros. Located in the northern state of Coahuila, the Sánchez Navarro family's latifundio was composed of seventeen haciendas and covered more than 16.5 million acres—the size of West Virginia. Charles H. Harris pla...

Investigation of Political, Economic, and Social Conditions in Puerto Rico

• Author(s): United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

• Categories: Puerto Rico

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1943
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register of the Officers and Employees in the Civil Service of the Philippine Islands

• Author(s): Philippines. Bureau of Civil Service

• Categories: Philippines

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1935
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Almanaque de La Ilustración

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1874
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Hearings

• Author(s): United States. Congress Senate

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1941
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• Publisher: Unknown

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