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100	1		_aDumond, Don E., 1929-
245	1	0	_aThe machete and the cross : campesino rebellion in Yucatan / Don E. Dumond
260			_bUniversity of Nebraska Press _aLincoln _cc1997
300			_axvii, 571 p. _bill., maps _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [537]-551) and index.
505	0	0	_aViolent 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.
650	1	0	_aYucatan (Mexico : State) _xHistory--Caste War, 1847-1855
650	1	0	_aYucatán (México : Estado) _xHistoria -- Guerra de castas, 1847-1855
650	1	0	_aIndians of Mexico _zYucatan Peninsula--Government relations
650	1	0	_aYucatan Peninsula _xHistory
650	1	0	_aMayas _zMexico--Government relations
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