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  title info:
    title: Conflict and carnage in Yucatán
    sub title: liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya revolutionaries, 1855-1876
  name:
    name part: Richmond, Douglas W.
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: alu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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. Richmon…
  table of 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.
  note: Douglas W. Richmond.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Mayas
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Peasants
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Revolutions
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Regionalism
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Liberalism
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: History
    temporal: 1821-1861
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: History
    temporal: European intervention, 1861-1867
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General
  classification: F1376 .R53 2015
  classification: 972/.601
  identifier: 9780817318703 (hardcover alkaline paper)
  identifier: 0817318704 (hardcover alkaline paper)
  identifier: 9780817388218 (electronic book)
  identifier: 2014034311
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150218
    record change date: 20151105182015.0
    record identifier: in00003526200