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1 online resource (viii, 275 pages) : maps |
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Introduction / Helen Delpar and Ben W. Fallaw -- pt. 1. Society and politics -- The Caste War of Yucatan in long-term perspective / Marie Lapointe -- Casting an image of modernity : Yucatan at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Helen Delpar -- A measure of liberty : the politics of labor in revolutionary Yucatan, 1915-1918 / Paul K. Eiss -- Removing the yoke of tradition : Yucatan's revolutionary women, revolutionary reforms / Stephanie J. Smith -- The crusade of the Mayab : Cardenista modernization and contestation in Yucatan, 1935-1940 / Ben W. Fallaw -- Against great odds : Lebanese entrepreneurs and the development of modern Yucatan / Eric N. Baklanoff -- The decline and collapse of Yucatan's Henequen agro-industry : neoliberalism reconsidered / Othón Baños Ramírez -- pt. 2. Religion -- José Canuto Vela and Yucatan's "benign" clergy from independence to the reform, 1821-1861 / Lynda S. Morrison -- From Santa Iglesia to Santa Cruz : Yucatecan popular religion in peace and war, 1800-1876 / Terry Rugeley -- The resurgence of the Church in Yucatan : the Olegario Molina-Crescencio Carrillo alliance, 1867-1901 / Hernán Menéndez Rodríguez with Ben W. Fallaw -- From acrimony to accommodation : church-state relations in revolutionary-era Yucatan, 1915-1940 / Ben W. Fallaw -- Some final thoughts on regional history and the encounter with modernity at Mexico's periphery / Gilbert M. Joseph |
| Summary |
Yucatan has been called "a world apart"--Cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended to remold Yucatan in the image of the advanced nations of the day. Indeed, modernizing change began in the late colonial era and continued throughout the 19th century as traditional patterns of land tenure were altered and efforts were made to divest the Catholic Church of its wealth and political and inte |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Catholic Church -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History
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Catholic Church -- History.
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Catholic Church fast |
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Politics and culture -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History
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Social change -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History
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Social classes -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History
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Economic development -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History
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Liberalism -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Economic development
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Economic history
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Liberalism -- Economic aspects
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Politics and culture
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Politics and government
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Religion
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Social change
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Social classes
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Social conditions
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Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government
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Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Social conditions
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Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Economic conditions
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Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Religion
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Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
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History
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Electronic book
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Terry, Edward Davis.
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| ISBN |
9780817383367 |
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0817383360 |
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