François Chevalier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French historian
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Place of Birth: Montluçon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About François Chevalier
- François Chevalier (27 May 1914 – 6 May 2012) was a distinguished French historian of Latin America.
- His most well-known publication is Land and Society in Colonial Mexico: The Great Hacienda (1963), which was originally published in French (Paris 1952) as La formation des grands domaines au Mexique (Paris 1952) and translated to Spanish (1956).
- It is a classic and pioneering work on agrarian history in colonial Mexico, a point of departure for later studies of Mexican haciendas sparking a discussion on whether they were fundamentally feudal or capitalist.
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