"Do-it-yourself" manuals were popular among the landowning elite because they offered, as Marcellus promises, a form of self-sufficiency and mastery.

This party's ascent to power in 1963 signaled the end of power for the landowning elite.

Society changed into an almost feudal relationship between landowning elites and bonded laborers.

This marked the moment when the middle classes entered government, displacing the landowning elite.

Detachments of the PMA were active throughout the country during the conflict, maintaining control over the rural populace and protecting the landowning elite.

The landowning elite expected that they would continue to enjoy precedence, but the country's peasants were beginning to dispute the landed aristocracy's control.

Whittington had long supplied the new king, Henry IV, as a prominent member of the landowning elite and so his business simply continued as before.

Decree 900, passed in 1952, ordered the redistribution of fallow land on large estates, threatening the interests of the landowning elite.

This new-found wealth enabled the Vellalas in general to morph into a dominant landowning elite with ritual and political control.

Unfortunately, independence changed little for Guatemala's indigenous communities, who remained under the control of the church and the landowning elite.