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Rebellion Now and Forever: Mayas, Hispanics, and Caste War Violence in Yucatan, 1800-1880

By Terry Rugeley

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0804760489, 9780804760485
LCC
F1435.3.W2 R837 2009
Open Library ID
OL23057572M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2308977 bytes)
Pages
488\484
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book explores the origins, process, and consequences of forty years of nearly continual political violence in southeastern Mexico. Rather than recounting the well-worn narrative of the Caste War, it focuses instead on how four decades of violence helped shape social and political institutions of the Mexican southeast. Rebellion Now and Forever looks at Yucat?n's famous Caste War from the perspective of the vast majority of Hispanics and Maya peasants who did not join in the great ethnic rebellion of 1847. It shows how the history of nonrebel territory was as dramatic and as violent as the front lines of the Caste War, and of greater significance for the larger evolution of Mexican society. The work explores political violence not merely as a method and process, but also as a molder of subsequent institutions and practices.

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