The machete and the cross : campesino rebellion in Yucatan / Don E. Dumond
Dumond, Don E., 1929-
The machete and the cross : campesino rebellion in Yucatan / Don E. Dumond - Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c1997 - xvii, 571 p. ill., maps 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-551) and index.
Violent class struggles and ethnic conflict mark much of the history of Latin America, continuing in some regions even today. Perhaps the worst and most prolonged of these conflicts was the guerra de las castas or ÒCaste War,ʺ an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847Ð1903). The struggle was not only ethnic, pitting indigenous peoples against a Hispanic or Hispanicized ruling class, but also economic, involving attacks by rural campesinos on plantation owners, merchants, overseers, and townspeople. The rebels met with sporadic and limited success but still managed at times to remove whole portions of the Yucatan Peninsula from state control.\ \Don E. Dumondʼs work is the anticipated complete history of the Caste War. Drawing on primary sources, he presents the first comprehensive description of this turbulent century of conflict in Yucatan and sets forth a carefully argued analysis of the reasons and broader social, political, and economic processes underlying the struggle.
0803217064
Yucatan (Mexico : State)--History--Caste War, 1847-1855
Yucatán (México : Estado)--Historia -- Guerra de castas, 1847-1855
Indians of Mexico--Yucatan Peninsula--Government relations
Yucatan Peninsula--History
Mayas--Mexico--Government relations
F1376 D86
The machete and the cross : campesino rebellion in Yucatan / Don E. Dumond - Lincoln University of Nebraska Press c1997 - xvii, 571 p. ill., maps 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-551) and index.
Violent class struggles and ethnic conflict mark much of the history of Latin America, continuing in some regions even today. Perhaps the worst and most prolonged of these conflicts was the guerra de las castas or ÒCaste War,ʺ an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847Ð1903). The struggle was not only ethnic, pitting indigenous peoples against a Hispanic or Hispanicized ruling class, but also economic, involving attacks by rural campesinos on plantation owners, merchants, overseers, and townspeople. The rebels met with sporadic and limited success but still managed at times to remove whole portions of the Yucatan Peninsula from state control.\ \Don E. Dumondʼs work is the anticipated complete history of the Caste War. Drawing on primary sources, he presents the first comprehensive description of this turbulent century of conflict in Yucatan and sets forth a carefully argued analysis of the reasons and broader social, political, and economic processes underlying the struggle.
0803217064
Yucatan (Mexico : State)--History--Caste War, 1847-1855
Yucatán (México : Estado)--Historia -- Guerra de castas, 1847-1855
Indians of Mexico--Yucatan Peninsula--Government relations
Yucatan Peninsula--History
Mayas--Mexico--Government relations
F1376 D86
