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Title Yucatán in an era of globalization / edited by Eric N. Baklanoff and Edward H. Moseley
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 192 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Yucatán's prelude to globalization / Edward H. Moseley and Helen Delpar -- Globalization and the evolving port landscape of Progreso / Michael S. Yoder -- A wheel of fortune : Yucatán's entrepreneurial elite from the revolution to globalization / Luis Alfonso Ramírez -- Yucatán, Mexico's other maquiladora frontier / Eric N. Baklanoff -- Tinum, Yucatán : a Maya village and the lights of Cancún / Paula R. Heusinkveld -- Chan Kom : tourism and migration in the making of the new Maya milpas / Alicia Re Cruz -- From Tallapoosa to Tixkokob : two communities share globalization / Edward H. Moseley -- Embracing community : an alternative tourism for Yucatán / Kathleen R. Martin and William A. Martín González
Summary Describes the changes to Yucatan's society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico's economy. This work charts the accelerated change in Yucatan from a monocrop economy to a beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization
Notes "Published in cooperation with the Alfredo Barrera Vásquez Center for Yucatecan Studies."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Globalization -- Economic aspects
Globalization -- Social aspects
Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Form Electronic book
Author Baklanoff, Eric N.
Moseley, Edward H., 1931-2005.
ISBN 9780817380045
0817380043