Bibliographic citations
Carrero, W., (2022). Tierra, colonización y conflictos en el Quindío (1870-1930) : una historia regional del proceso formativo del Estado en Colombia [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/23173
Carrero, W., Tierra, colonización y conflictos en el Quindío (1870-1930) : una historia regional del proceso formativo del Estado en Colombia []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/23173
@phdthesis{renati/534379,
title = "Tierra, colonización y conflictos en el Quindío (1870-1930) : una historia regional del proceso formativo del Estado en Colombia",
author = "Carrero Delgado, Wilder Andrés",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2022"
}
Between the 19th and 20th centuries, the expansion of the Colombian agricultural frontier was one of the main public and private projects designed to generate wealth, shorten distances, strengthen institutional presence on the frontiers, and reduce conflict where there was high demographic pressure; however, one of the main characteristics of this process was the conflicts between settlers, farmers, state agents and territorial entrepreneurs, as all were involved in claims for the right to land ownership. It is in this context that the Province of Quindío emerged as one of the main centres of colonisation and agrarian conflicts, because in the absence of a land registry and migratory control, it was common for settlers, territorial entrepreneurs and newly founded settlements to coincide on the same land, which, in order to guarantee the success of their interests, resorted to multiple strategies such as falsifying deeds, stimulating conflict between third parties, and even taking advantage of their political position, especially when they were State agents, to benefit private interests; Hence, the colonisation of Quindío offers multiple experiences of peasant organisation and resistance, as well as a range of situations in which we can analyse the functioning of bureaucracies, the control of the autonomy of state agents, the territorial construction of the region, the disputes between the centre and the periphery, the transformation of the legislation that regulated land ownership between the 19th and 20th centuries and, therefore, the process of the formation of the state.
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