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From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940
01 Jan 1986-
TL;DR: From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940 as discussed by the authors, is a book about the social bases of agrarian violence in Mexico.
Abstract: The description for this book, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940, will be forthcoming.
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TL;DR: A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes as mentioned in this paper, including agricultural output, industrial output, labor productivity, energy demand, health, conflict, and economic growth.
Abstract: A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and demonstrate impacts on agricultural output, industrial output, labor productivity, energy demand, health, conflict, and economic growth, among other outcomes. By harnessing exogenous variation over time within a given spatial unit, these studies help credibly identify (i) the breadth of channels linking weather and the economy, (ii) heterogeneous treatment effects across different types of locations, and (iii) nonlinear effects of weather variables. This paper reviews the new literature with two purposes. First, we summarize recent work, providing a guide to its methodologies, datasets, and findings. Second, we consider applications of the new literature, including insights for the "damage function" within models that seek to assess the potential economic effects of future climate change. ( JEL C51, D72, O13, Q51, Q54)
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TL;DR: The Mexican Drought Atlas (MXDA) as mentioned in this paper provides a new spatial perspective on the historical impacts of moisture extremes over Mexico during the past 600-years, including the Aztec Drought of One Rabbit in 1454, the drought of El Ano de Hambre in 1785-1786, and the drought that preceded the Mexican Revolution of 1909-1910.
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...The Mexican Revolution began in November 1910 and was stimulated in part by grievances related to agrarian reform, but drought conditions have long been suspected as a contributing factor (e.g., Tutino, 1986)....
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19 Dec 2005TL;DR: Taking Power as discussed by the authors analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present, and proposes a theory that integrates political, economic, and cultural factors that brought these revolutions about, and links structural theorizing with original ideas on culture and agency.
Abstract: Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a theory that seeks to integrate the political, economic, and cultural factors that brought these revolutions about, and links structural theorizing with original ideas on culture and agency. It attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that treat particular sets of revolutions including the great social revolutions of Mexico 1910, China 1949, Cuba 1959, Iran 1979, and Nicaragua 1979, the anticolonial revolutions in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the failed revolutionary attempts in El Salvador, Peru, and elsewhere. It closes with speculation about the future of revolutions in an age of globalization, with special attention to Chiapas, the post-September 11 world, and the global justice movement.
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TL;DR: The value of cross-national quantitative studies of the relationship between mass political violence and land inequality is challenged along three lines: gross and systematic errors in the political violence data of the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators render them worthless for Central America at least and probably much of the Third World as well.
Abstract: The value of cross-national quantitative studies of the relationship between mass political violence and land inequality is challenged along three lines. First, gross and systematic errors in the political violence data of the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators (the usual data source for empirical studies) render them worthless for Central America at least and probably much of the Third World as well. Second, conceptualizations of land inequality have been too simplistic to be of much theoretical value. Third, the temporal nature of this relationship has been inadequately considered. Responding to such deficiencies, I elaborate a broader understanding of land inequality and provide a fuller discussion of the temporal nature of its relationship to political violence. Throughout, the five nations of Central America are utilized for appropriate case material.
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TL;DR: The relationship between sociopolitical violence and agrarian structure and state policy has been explored in this paper, focusing on the impact of land reform and counter-reform experiences on rural conflicts and violence.
Abstract: In recent decades rural violence has escalated in many Latin American countries Although there is a growing body of literature on the topic, there exist as yet few comparative studies While there are undoubtedly multiple and evolving causes of violence, this exploratory article focuses on the relationship between sociopolitical violence and agrarian structure and state policy Particular attention is paid to the impact of agrarian reform and counter-reform experiences on rural conflicts and violence A contrast is also drawn with countries which have not undergone any significant land reform The cases discussed are Chile, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and several Central American countries (Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador) The complexity of rural violence is demonstrated and the case for further comparative studies is argued, so as to advance our knowledge on the causes, consequences and resolution of violence
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...5 There have been some fine studies on particular countries, such as Mexico by Womack (1972), Knight (1986), Tutino (1986) and Katz (1988); Colombia by Zamosc (1986); Central America by Brockett (1988); Bolivia by Rivera (1987); and Peru by Degregori (1992, 1996) and Stern (1998)....
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