Abstract

TORRAS CONANGLA, Rosa. Women Landowners in the Rainforest of Campeche. Liberalism During the 19 ^th -Century Border Expansion. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2025, n.spe3, pp.173-200.  Epub May 13, 2025. ISSN 0185-2620.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24485004e.2025.1e.77960.

The text aims to examine the trajectories of rural women landowners in the tropical forests of southern Campeche during the expansion of Mexico’s southern border through the privatization of property rights over the jungle. Under the federal laws of 1863, 1883, and 1884 on the occupation and alienation of vacant lands, merchant families settled in Isla del Carmen dominated the forest extractive economy until its transfer to United States gum companies. The vacant land claim files from 1860 to 1897 have been cross-referenced with other sources that have allowed for an intersectional approach that confirms the prominent role of these women landowners as guarantors of the liberal project in a frontier region.

Keywords : women landowners; colonization; forest frontier; liberalism; Campeche; 19 ^th century.

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