Format:
Online-Ressource (196 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780817318703
Content:
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. R
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Confrontational Foundation: Yucatecan Conflicts from Antiquity to 1821; 2. Liberal Oppression and Maya Resistance, 1822-61; 3. French Intervention and the Second Empire, 1861-67; 4. The Tragedy of the Restored Republic Era, 1867-76; 5. Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817388218
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817318703
Additional Edition:
Print version Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán : Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876
Language:
English
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