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- Title
Cracks and Fugitive Geographies: Agrarian Capitalism and Rural Landscapes in Central Veracruz, Mexico, Nineteenth-Twentyth Centuries.
- Authors
Richard, François G.
- Abstract
This article reflects on the spatial history of agrarian capitalism in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, through the lens of a French farming colony on the Nautla river. While, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this region's rural landscapes were ostensibly redesigned at the hand of liberal state programs and capitalist desires, a closer look shows a more checkered reality. Using textual and geographic archives, my analysis examines the tensions and "cracks" that emerged in this process of economic "modernization," with an eye for the fugitive histories fashioned by French colonists in the face of capitalist abstraction.
- Subjects
VERACRUZ (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico); HISTORY of capitalism; AGRICULTURAL history; LANDSCAPES; FUGITIVES from justice; STATE capitalism
- Publication
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2024, Vol 28, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1092-7697
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10761-022-00687-y