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Outside the Hacienda Walls: The Archaeology of Plantation Peonage in Nineteenth-Century Yucatán (The Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America)
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Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
The Mexican Revolution was a tumultuous struggle for social and political reform that ousted an autocrat and paved the way for a new national constitution. The conflict, however, came late to Yucatán, where a network of elite families with largely European roots held the reins of government. This privileged group reaped spectacular wealth from haciendas, cash-crop plantations tended by debt-ridden servants of Maya descent. When a revolutionary army from central Mexico finally gained a foothold in Yucatán in 1915, the local custom of agrarian servitude met its demise.
Drawing on a dozen years of archaeological and historical investigation, ... Read more
The Mexican Revolution was a tumultuous struggle for social and political reform that ousted an autocrat and paved the way for a new national constitution. The conflict, however, came late to Yucatán, where a network of elite families with largely European roots held the reins of government. This privileged group reaped spectacular wealth from haciendas, cash-crop plantations tended by debt-ridden servants of Maya descent. When a revolutionary army from central Mexico finally gained a foothold in Yucatán in 1915, the local custom of agrarian servitude met its demise.
Drawing on a dozen years of archaeological and historical investigation, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816529957
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V9780816529957
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