Abstract

GOMEZ-SERRANO, Jesús. Cienega de Mata, from their Beginning to the End of the Agrarian Reform. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.3, pp.130-160. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.v24i3.860.

Ciénega de Mata, one of the most extensive and productive latifundia of the New Galicia, began to form at the end of the sixteenth century and remained undivided until 1861, when its last owner shared the haciendas that integrated it among their children and sold a large number of ranches among its tenants. In the twentieth century, revolutionary agrarianism liquidated the hacienda regime and massively moved the land to the hands of peasants; the one that was the head of the latifundio lost more than half of its earth and the rest was divided in three small properties. Supported primary sources, it is proposed a review of the history of this latifundio; although some emphasis is placed on some conjunctures, a long-term view is also proposed, usually absent in the historiography related to the topic.

Keywords : great landowner; agrarian reform; small property; hacienda management.

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