From common lands (partitioning) to confraternity lands. The liberal confiscation of the Nahua of the south of Jalisco (1824-1856)

This article reconstructs the confiscation process of the communal property of the indigenous Nahua people from the south of Jalisco between 1824 and 1856. The objective is to reveal how the Nahuas made use of property by holding individual land titles. Based on the revision of the documental corpus...