The Land Systems of Mexico

By George McCutchen McBride

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1287347460
• ISBN13: 9781287347460
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Gale, Making of Modern Law
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

This presentation is primarily an economic outlook.

However, the information is quite useful for other disciplines. The book covers everything from rainfall patterns to class differences in Mexico. But do not think that it is some dry dissertation designed for a doctorate on the agrarian problems of Mexico. From the introduction, “While the urban centers of Mexico have Pace with other modern cities in many respects, the country districts have drowsed through the centuries, undisturbed, amid the seclusion of their intermontane fields, by events of peace or war that have substantially altered conditions of rustic life in other lands.” Under the section on the "plan of a typical hacienda in the state of Colima, Mexico," there are pictures that show the striking difference between the haciendas that have changed hands from mostly European owners and the pictures of the peon’s hut in a Mexican hacienda. A little side note is that I spent some time in Vietnam and saw the difference between structures from the French planters and those of the Montagnards. The similarities are striking until you take an architecture course where they explain that you can only make so many variations with the same structural material. The book has quite a few monochrome photographs of places I have seen long before they were cleaned up and modernized, yet my traversing of the locations in the mid-’70s showed that some of the pictures could have been taken yesterday. We also have diagrams and graphs of the various locations that make up “The Land Systems of Mexico.”