Definition of Latifundio

1. [n -DIOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latifundio

lati
latibulize
latibulized
latibulizes
latibulizing
latices
laticifer
laticiferous
laticifers
laticlave
laticlaves
laticostate
latifolious
latifolous
latifundia
latifundio (current term)
latifundios
latifundium
latigo
latigoes
latigos
latilla
latillas
latimer
latimerias
latimers
latin
latin america
latina
latinas

Literary usage of Latifundio

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Fractured Continent: Latin America in Close-Up by Willard Leon Beaulac (1980)
"They brought the latifundio to America. Avarice rather than need became the ... The typical latifundio covered an enormous area and was largely self- ..."

2. Home Life in Spain by Samuel Levy Bensusan (1910)
"Ir Perhaps the chief danger to the Church in Spain arises pfrom what the Spaniard calls latifundio—the single word expressing the unequal division of wealth ..."

3. Home Life in Spain by Samuel Levy Bensusan (1910)
"Perhaps the chief danger to the Church in Spain arises from what the Spaniard calls latifundio—the single word expressing the unequal division of wealth. ..."

4. Livestock and Deforestation: Central America in the 1980s and 1990s : a by David Kaimowitz (1996)
"Extensive Land Use and the Logic of the latifundio: A Case Study in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Human Ecology 13: 153-185. Edelman, M. 1992. ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... out a vast housing program, aimed at abolishing the latifundio and the desert, and advancing the technical level of her agriculture and cattle breeding. ..."

6. Land & Development in Latin America[: openings for policy researchby Stephen Baranyi, Carmen Diana Deere, Manuel Morales by Stephen Baranyi, Carmen Diana Deere, Manuel Morales (2004)
"... military governments concentrating upon the modernization of the latifundio, through credit subsidies, and colonization of the Amazon (Hall, 1990). ..."

7. Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics by Walther Manshard, William B. Morgan (1988)
"... such as the avoidance of migratory agriculture and the speculation in land which leads to its concentration in large "latifundio" type farms. ..."

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