History of Yucatan, Mexico

YucatÁn - yookətănˈ, –kätänˈ, state (1990 pop. 1,362,940), 14,868 sq mi (38,508 sq km), SE Mexico, occupying most of the northern part of the Yucatán peninsula. It lies between Campeche and Quintana Roo. The principal industry is tourism and the cultivation and preparation of henequen—mostly exported to the United States Read More...

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History of Yucatan, Mexico

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The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan
by Don E. Dumond. 572 pgs.

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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.

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Preface

Prospect

Part 1: Sustaining the Colony, 1511-1821

1: Beginnings

2: Governing for God and King

3: Changing with Time

Part 2: Learning Rebellion, 1821-1848

4: Strains of Independence

5: Year of Turmoil

6: Peace and War

7: Climax

Part 3: Dividing the Realm, 1848-1853

8: The Screw Tightens

9: Olive Branches with Thorns

10: A Parting of Ways

Part 4: Finding Foe and Friend, 1853-1869

11: Tribulations, Triumphs, Miraculous Crosses

12: Massacres and Machinations

13: Cross Triumphant, Cross Deposed

14: Unsteady Peace in the South

15: Rebels and Friends

Part 5: Keeping the Faith, 1869-1903

16: Bravo Enterprises

17: Pacifico Affairs

18: The World Moves Closer

19: Determination and Dissolution

20: The End of Independence

Retrospect

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Land, Labor & Capital in Modern Yucatan: Essays in Regional History and Political Economy
by Jeffery T. Brannon, Gilbert M. Joseph. 326 pgs.

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Preface

A Brief Chronology Major Events in Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula

1: Introduction: The New Regional Historiography at Mexico's Periphery

Part I the Erosion of Traditional Society: the Early Expansion of Commercial Agriculture and the Mayan Response

2: Everyday Forms of Mayan Resistance: Cattle Rustling in Northwestern Yucatu+00 e1n, 1821-1847

3: Decolonization, the Agrarian Problem, and the Origins of the Caste War, 1812- 1847

4: Capital-Labor Relations on a Colonial Frontier: On La Nineteenth-Century Northern Belize

Part II Forging the New Order: the Commercial Agriculture and Export Dependency

5: From Hacienda to Plantation: The Transformation of Santo Domingo Xcuyum

6: Capitalism on the Tropical-Forest Frontier: Quintana Roo, 1880s to 1930

Part III Revolutionary Challenges to the Plantation Regime

7: Salvador Alvarado and Agrarian Reform in Yucatán, 1915-1918: Federal Obstruction of Regional Social Change

8: The Rise and Fall of the Planter Class in Espita, 1900-1924

Workers Against Socialism? Reassessing the Role of Urban Labor in Yucatecan Revolutionary Politics

10: Conclusion: Yucatecan Political Economy in Broader Perspective

Notes

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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The War of the Eggs: Event, Archive, and History in Yucatan's Independent Union Movement, 1990, in Ethnology
by Paul Eiss. 22 pgs.

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Rural Revolt in Mexico: U. S. Intervention and the Domain of Subaltern Politics ("The United States, Feuding Elites, and Rural Revolt in Yucatan, 1836-1915" begins on p. 173)
by Daniel Nugent. 385 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Introduction: Reasons to Be Cheerful

I Popular Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism in the Mexican Countryside

The United States and the Mexican Peasantry, Circa 1880-1940

Measuring Influence: the United States and the Mexican Peasantry

Social Unrest, Nationalism, and American Capital in the Mexican Countryside, 1876-1920

Villismo: Nationalism and Popular Mobilization in Northern Mexico

Ii Class, Ethnicity, and Space in Mexican Rural Revolts

Rancheros and Rebellion: the Case of Northwestern Chihuahua, 1905-1909

Mixtec Political Consciousness: from Passive to Active Resistance

Space and Revolution in Northeastern Chihuahua

Iii U.S. Intervention and Popular Ideology

The United States, Feuding Elites, and Rural Revolt in Yucatán, 1836-1915

U.S. Military Intervention, Revolutionary Mobilization, and Popular Ideology in the Chihuahuan Sierra, 1916-1917

From Alliance to Dependency: the Formation and Deformation of an Alliance Between Francisco Villa and the United States

Iv Resistance and Persistence

Chiapas and the Rebellion of the Enchanted World

Bibliography

Index

Contributors
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Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500-1685 (Chap. 10 "Grijalva's Captains: Montejo and Avila in Yucatan, 1527-42")
by Robert S. Weddle. 457 pgs.

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Preface

Abbreviations Used in Notes

In the Beginning. . .

PART I: West from the Islands

Chapter 2: Florida and the Fountain: Juan Ponce de León 1513-21

Chapter 3: Rewards of Discovery: Hernández de Córdoba, 1517

Chapter 4: "A Luckless Man": Juan de Grijalva, 1518

Chapter 5: Prelude to Conquest: Cortés and Velázquez, 1518-19

Chapter 6: Amichel: Alvarez de Pineda, 1519-20

PART II Amazing Mexico

Chapter 7: New Spain of the Ocean Sea: Conquest and Confrontation, 1519-22

Chapter 8: Victoria Garayana: Garay and Pánuco, 1523

Chapter 9: Learning the Secrets: Honduras to Nueva Galicia, 1521-35

Chapter 10: Grijalva's Captains: Montejo and Avila in Yucatán, 1527-42

PART III

Chapter 12: Wasted Conquest: Soto and Moscoso, 1539-43

Chapter 13: One Ship and the Cross: The Dominican Martyrs, 1549 and 1554

Chapter 14: Genesis at Tampico: The Staging of the Luna Expedition, 1555-59

PART IV: The Building Rivalry

Chapter 17: Land of Angels: Menéndez and Escalante, 1565-75

Chapter 18: The "Tragic Quadrate": Carvajal and the New Kingdom of León, 1567-90

Chapter 19: Tierra Incógnita: The Northern Gulf in the "Forgotten Century"

Chapter 20: The Gulf's New Explorers: The English, the French, and the Dutch

Chapter 21: The Bloody Buccaneers: Harbingers of Change, 1669-85

In Sharper Focus . . . the Conclusions

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
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Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Essays on the History of Ethnic Relations ("Indians in Colonial Yucatan: Three Perspectives" begins on p. 1, and "The Last Maya Frontiers of Colonial Yucatan" begins on p. 64)
by Murdo J. MacLeod, Robert Wasserstrom. 292 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Indians in Colonial Yucatan: Three Perspectives

Lowland Maya Political Economy: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives in Light of Intensive Agriculture

The Last Maya Frontiers of Colonial Yucatan

Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Chiapas, 1528-1790

Whose Caste War? Indians, Ladinos, and the Chiapas "Caste War" of 1869

Some Aspects of Change in Guatemalan Society, 1470-1620

Ethnic Relations and Indian Society in the Province of Guatemala, Ca. 1620-Ca. 1800

Spanish-Indian Relations in Highland Guatemala, 1800-1944

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
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Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1648-1812
by Robert W. Patch. 332 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Tables and Illustrations

Introduction

PART ONE Yucatan to 1648

Chapter One Geography and Civilization

Chapter Two the First Century of the Colonial Regime

PART TWO The Colonial Regime, 1648-1730

Chapter Three Maya Society

Chapter Four the Peasant Economy

Chapter Five Hispanic Economy and Society

PART THREE The Regime in Decline, 1730-1812

Chapter Six Economic and Social Change

Chapter Eight Commerce, Markets, and the Crisis of Production

Chapter Nine Rural Society

Conclusion

Reference Matter

APPENDIX A Estimated Population of Indian Settlements, 1700 and 1716

APPENDIX B Non-Indians in the Villages of Yucatan, 1777-91

Notes

A Note on the Primary Sources

Works Cited

Index
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Yucatan's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War
by Terry Rugeley. 244 pgs.

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Conflicts between native Maya peoples and European-derived governments have punctuated Mexican history from the Conquest in the sixteenth century to the current Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. In this deeply researched study, Terry Rugeley delves into the 1800-1847 origins of the Caste War, the largest and most successful of these peasant rebellions. Rugeley refutes earlier studies that seek to explain the Caste War in terms of a single issue. Instead, he explores the interactions of several major social forces, including the church, the hacienda, and peasant villagers. He uncovers a complex web of issues that led to the outbreak of war, including the loss of communal lands, substandard living conditions, the counterpoise of Catholicism versus traditional Maya beliefs, and an increasingly heavy tax burden. Drawn from a wealth of primary documents, this book represents the first real attempt to reconstruct the history of the pre-Caste War period. In addition to its obvious importance for Mexican history, it will be illuminating background reading for everyone seeking to understand the ongoing conflict in Chiapas.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

One Arural Society in the New Century

Two the Return to Pagan Antiquity

Three the Other Side of the Golden Age

CONCLUSIONS

Four Dilemmas of the Maya Elite

Five the ImÁn Pevolt

Six "The Devil Will Overtake Us"

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850
by Matthew Restall. 441 pgs.

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For the first time, the author aims to give a voice to the Maya themselves, basing his analysis entirely on his translations of hundreds of Yacatec Maya notarial documents most of which have never before received scholarly attention.

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Preface

Contents

Maps and Figures

Tables

Chapter One: Introduction

Part One: Identity and Organization

Chapter Two: The Cah: Identity

Chapter Three: The Cah: Entity

Chapter Four: Names

Chapter Five: Government

Chapter Six: Politics: Faction, Office, and Career

Part Two: Society and Culture

Chapter Seven: Class

Chapter Eight: Daily Life

Chapter Nine: Inheritance

Chapter Ten: Gender

Chapter Eleven: Sexuality

Chapter Twelve: Religion

Part Three: Land and Material Culture

Chapter Thirteen: Settlement

Chapter Fourteen: Economic and Material Culture

Chapter Fifteen: Land Description

Chapter Sixteen: Tenure and Exchange

Chapter Seventeen: Conflict and Conquest

Part Four: Literacy and Language

Chapter Eighteen: Notarial Purpose and Style

Chapter Nineteen: Petitions

Chapter Twenty: Election Records

Chapter Twenty-One: Quasi-Notarial Genres

Chapter Twenty-Two: Language

Chapter Twenty-Three: Conclusion

Appendixes

Reference Matter

Notes

Glossary

Works Cited

Index
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"From the Heart of a Woman": Yucatec Maya Women as Political Actors, in Sex Roles: A Journal of Research
by Kathleen R. Martin. 13 pgs.

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The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (Chap. 2 "Feminism-in-Nationalism: Third Space Feminism in Yucatan's Socialist Revolution")
by Emma Erez. 181 pgs.

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Emma Perez discusses the historical methodology that has created Chicano history. Then -- borrowing from theorists and philosophers of history such as Michel Foucault, Juan Gomez-Quinones, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Hayden White as well as from cultural feminist critics Gloria Anzaldua, Teresa de Lauretis, Antonia Castaneda, Deena Gonzalez, and Chela Sandoval -- the author argues that the Chicano historical narrative has often omitted gender. She poses a theory which rejects the colonizer's methodological assumptions and examines new tools for uncovering the hidden voices of Chicanas who have been relegated to silence. Within that silence, she uncovers what she describes as "third space feminism."
The text moves from geographic spaces in the Yucatan to California and Texas around the time of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Perez examines Yucatan's socialist revolution, the international revolutionary movement El Partido Liberal Mexicano, and the Club Femenino Chapultepec. In these case studies "new voices" come into existence to shape knowledge about Chicanas.
The last chapter critiques the tale of La Malinche, the translator and alleged lover of Cortes; a recent film, Silent Tongue, the story of an Indian woman; Delgadeio, the object of desire in a popular corrido; and Selena, the slain Tex-Mex popular singer who practiced her own cultural feminism in sexualized performances.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Archaeology: Colonialist Historiography, Writing the Nation into History

Sexing the Colonial Imaginary: (en)gendering Chicano History, Theory, and Consciousness

From Archaeology to Genealogy: Discursive Events and Their Case Studies

Feminism-In-Nationalism: Third Space Feminism in YucatÁn's Socialist Revolution

The Poetics of an (inter)nationalist Revolution: El Partido Liberal Mexicano, Third Space Feminism in the United States

Tejanas Diasporic Subjectivities and Post- Revolution Identities

Genealogy: History's Imprints Upon the Colonial Body

Beyond the Nation's Maternal Bodies: Technologies of Decolonial Desire

Conclusion Third Space Feminist (re)vision

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Art and Time in Mexico: Architecture and Sculpture in Colonial Mexico (Chap. I "Yucatan")
by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann. 284 pgs.

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Art and Time in Mexico: From the Conquest to the Revolution

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface

Art and Time in Mexico

I: YucatÁn

II: Fortifications

III: New Cities

IV: The Friars' Missions Central Mexico

V: The Friars' Missions Michoacán and Oaxaca

VI: Tequitqui and Retables

VII: Cathedrals

VIII: The Baroque Ensemble

IX: Popular Art

X: Civic Architecture

XI: Houses

XII: Haciendas

Glossary

Bibliography

Abbreviations of State Names

Index
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When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Culture Contacts (1942) ("Spanish Policy and the Yucatan" begins on p. 175)
by Alain Locke, Bernhard J. Stern. 756 pgs.

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Foreword and Acknowledgments

Part I: Culture Contact and the Growth Of Civilization

1: In the Setting of World Culture

Patterns of Culture

Race and History

All Peoples Have Contributed to Culture

Our Debt to Other Civilizations

2: The Universality of Cultural Interchange

Caravan Cities

Rome and China

Rome and the Barbarians

East Meets West

Chinese Influences on the West

Jewish Influences on Modern Thought

Islam in Africa

Africa Lives On

Our Culture Debt to the Indians

3: Europe Aims at Dominance

Europe Becomes Supreme

The World in Motion

Some Problems of Culture Contact

Types of Culture Contact

The Effects of Western Culture Upon Primitive Peoples

Culture Contact in Central America

Part II: Varieties of Culture Conflict

4: Power Politics and Dominance

How the Minority Problem Arose in Europe

Darwin Observes a War of Extermination

The Fall of the Incas

The English Policy of Conquest

The Frontier and Race Attitudes In South Africa

The American Indian Frontier

The Business of Scalping

5: The Role of Imperialism

Trade and Cultural Conflict

Spanish Policy and the Yucatan

Imperialism Intensifies the Conflict

Europeanization and Its Consequences

6: The Economic Basis of Culture Conflict

Contemporary Furopean-Bantu Relations In South Africa

The Detribalization of the Natives of The Pacific Islands

Economic Factors in Group Prejudices

Minorities and the Depression

The Economic Basis of Race Relations

7: Types of Social Cleavage

American Caste and the Negro

Unorthodox Race Doctrine in Hawaii

When Religion Cuts Across Race Lines

Religion and the Persecution of the Jew

Religion and Race Consciousness

Attitudes in Class Relations

The Status of Women

Culture Cleavage in a New England Community

Second Generation Youth

Part III: The Ways of Dominant Peoples: Devices of Power

8: Techniques of Dominance

Illusions of Dominance

The Functions of a Racial Ideology

Negro Character as Seen by White Authors

Caricatures of Minorities

The Sources of Anti-Semitism

The Jews Under the Nazi Regime

The Psychology and Psycho-Pathology Of Race Prejudice

9: Dilemmas of Dominance

White Dominance in South Africa

The Role of the Half-Castes

The Mulatto as a Marginal Man

The Negro in Brazil

Intermarriage

Attitudes Toward Immigrants, Old and New

10: Superiority Creeds and Race Thinking

The Nature of Race Thinking

The Fallacy of the Concept of Pure Races

Racial Features as a Factor in Race Antagonisms

What Psychological Tests Show

The Instability of the Human Organism

Part IV: The Ways of Submerged Peoples: Tactics Of Survival and Counter-Assertion

11: The Predicaments of Minorities

Ethnic Communities

Sectarian Settlements on the Canadian Prairies

Why the Jewish Community Survives

The Negro Family in a White Man's Society

When Negroes Participated in the Government of the South

The Plight of the American Indians

The Significance of the Indian Ghost Dance Religion

The Beginnings of Bantu Nationalism

The Responses of the Race Conscious

12: Minority Reaction and Counter-Assertion

Negro Counter-Assertion in the South

Racial Attitudes and Age Groups

The Negro's Participation in American Culture

The Reaction of Primitive Peoples to The White Man's Culture

Acculturation in Seven American Tribes

Race Consciousness in South Africa

Personality in a White-Indian-Negro Community

The Negro Immigrant

The Rise of Indian Nationalism

Part V: The Contemporary Scene in Inter Cultural Relations

13: The Problems of Contemporary Imperialism

The Present Situation

Great Britain in India

The British and the Indian Caste System

The French in Indo-China

The Dilemmas of Colonial Policy

The Outcome of European Domination Of Africa

14: Minorities in Europe

Nationalism and the Minorities

Language and National Antagonisms

Reversals of Dominance in Central Europe

The Nazi Racialist Interpretation of History

National Minorities in the Soviet Union

15: Minority Issues in American Democracy

Immigration Attitudes and Policies in The United States

Exiles and Refugees in American History

Cultural Diversity in American Life

Negro and White in Trade Unions

Minorities and American Democracy

Who's Who

Authors' Index

General Index

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