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Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan (Pitt Latin American Series)
Paul Sullivan
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Description for Xuxub Must Die: The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan (Pitt Latin American Series)
Paperback. In 1875, American Robert Stephens, along with many of his workers and their wives and children, was killed at the Xuxub sugar plantation, victims of Maya rebels. This work examines the motives and perspectives of those lives that Xuxub ensnared, and the diplomatic and legal battles that resulted from the heinous crime. Series: Pitt Latin American Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; BTC; HBJK; HBLL; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred years ago, they went for cheap labor, an abundance of land, and the opportunity to make a fortune exporting cattle, henequen fiber, sugarcane, or rum. Sometimes they found death.
In 1875 an American plantation manager named Robert Stephens and a number of his workers were murdered by a band of Maya rebels. To this day, no one knows why. Was it the result of feuding between aristocratic families for greater power and wealth? Was it the foreseeable consequence of ... Read more
Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred years ago, they went for cheap labor, an abundance of land, and the opportunity to make a fortune exporting cattle, henequen fiber, sugarcane, or rum. Sometimes they found death.
In 1875 an American plantation manager named Robert Stephens and a number of his workers were murdered by a band of Maya rebels. To this day, no one knows why. Was it the result of feuding between aristocratic families for greater power and wealth? Was it the foreseeable consequence of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pitt Latin American Series
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822959441
SKU
V9780822959441
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About Paul Sullivan
Paul Sullivan is an independent scholar and anthropologist. He is the author of Unfinished Conversations: Mayas and Foreigners Between Two Wars.
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