Talk:David Stoll

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[edit] Size of that parcel of land

I have added the following to User:TDC's talk page.

You added to the David Stoll article that "Vicente Menchú had in fact been quite prosperous.... He had owned a 2,753 hectares parcel of land." Unless this was poisoned waste land it would have made him more than a "quite prosperous" peasant, it would have made him a major upper-class landowner. 2,753 hectares is about 7,000 acres or more than ten square miles. Was this a mistake? 2.753 hectares seems more likely for the plot of a "quite prosperous" peasant. It has since been converted to "27.53 suare km" but I'm going to replace it with something non-specific. Could you perhaps find the time to double check the source? And of course it is possible that the source is wrong. If 2,753 hectares is right, the whole of the article is hard to understand. I know Stoll was arguing they weren't that poor, but landownership on that scale would surely make the conflict referred to one between two landowning factions rather than a peasant revolt. Bhoeble 14:50, 8 April 2006 (UTC)