The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan - Rilegato

Dumond, Don E.

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ISBN 10: 0803217064 ISBN 13: 9780803217065

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1997

Riassunto

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 “Caste War,” an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847–1903). 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. Dumond’s 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.

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L'autore:

Don E. Dumond is a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and the author of The Eskimos and Aleuts.

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Book by Dumond Don E

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• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0803217064
• ISBN 13: 9780803217065
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 571