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Author Richmond, Douglas W., 1946- author.

Title Conflict and carnage in Yucatán : liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya revolutionaries, 1855-1876 / Douglas W. Richmond
Published Tuscaloosa : The University Alabama Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents A confrontational foundation : Yucatecan conflicts from antiquity to 1821 -- Liberal oppression and Maya resistance, 1822-61 -- French intervention and the Second Empire, 1861-67 -- The tragedy of the restored republic era, 1867-76
Summary "The Yucatán Peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of Europeans, native Maya with long and successful cultural and diplomatic traditions of their own had to grapple with outside forces attempting to impose new templates of life and politics on them. Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán provides a rigorously researched study of the vexed and bloody period of 1855 to 1876, during which successive national governments implemented, replaced, and restored liberal policies. Synthesizing an extensive and heterogeneous range of sources, Douglas W. Richmond covers three tumultuous political upheavals of this period. First, Mexico's fledgling republic attempted to impose a liberal ideology at odds with traditional Maya culture on Yucatán; then, the French-backed regime of Emperor Maximilian began to reform Yucatán; and, finally, the republican forces of Benito Juárez restored the liberal hegemony. Many issues spurred resistance to these liberal governments. Instillation of free trade policies, the suppression of civil rights, and persecution of the Roman Catholic Church mobilized white opposition to liberal governors. The Mayas fought the seizure of their communal properties. A long-standing desire for regional autonomy united virtually all Yucatecans. Richmond advances the thought-provoking argument that Yucatán both fared better under Maximilian's Second Empire than under the liberal republic and would have thrived more had the Second Empire not collapsed. The most violent and bloody manifestation of these broad conflicts was the Caste War (Guerra de Castas), the longest sustained peasant revolt in Latin American history. Where other scholars have advocated the simplistic position that the war was a Maya uprising designed to reestablish a mythical past civilization, Richmond's sophisticated recounting of political developments from 1855 to 1876 restores nuance and complexity to this pivotal time in Yucatecan history. Richmond's Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán is a welcome addition to scholarship about Mexico and Yucatán as well as about state consolidation, empire, and regionalism"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Liberalism -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
Regionalism -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century
Revolutions -- Yucatán Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
Peasants -- Political activity -- Yucatán Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
Mayas -- Yucatán Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
Liberalism
Mayas -- Politics and government
Peasants -- Political activity
Politics and government
Regionalism -- Political aspects
Revolutions
Politischer Konflikt
Unruhen
SUBJECT Mexico -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084606
Mexico -- History -- European intervention, 1861-1867. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084584
Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084582
Yucatán Peninsula -- History, Military -- 19th century
Yucatán Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Subject Central America -- Yucatán Peninsula
Mexico
Yucatán
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817388218
0817388214