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Conflict and Carnage in Yuctan - Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855-1876 (Hardcover, 2)
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Conflict and Carnage in Yuctan - Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855-1876 (Hardcover, 2)
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Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict
and Carnage in Yucatan offers a fresh study of Yucatan's complex
and vio lent history that expands and revises perceptions of
liberal as well as Second Empire politics in Yucatan from 1855 to
1876. The Yucatan peninsula has one of the longest, most
multifaceted histories in the Americas. From the arrival of
European explorers, native Mayan peoples with successful traditions
and internecine conflicts grappled with outside forces attempting
to graft a new template of life and politics on it by force.
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatan provides a rigorously researched
study of the vexed and bloody period of 1855 to 1876, during which
successive national governments imposed, replaced, and restored
liberal policies. Synthesizing extensive and heterogeneous sources,
Douglas W. Rich mond covers three tumultuous political upheavals of
this period: first, how Mexico's fledgling republic attempted to
impose a liberal ideol ogy at odds with traditional Mayan culture
on Yucatan; then, how the French-backed regime of Emperor
Maximilian began to reform Yucatan; and finally how the republican
forces of Benito Juarez restored the liberal hegemony. Many issues
spurred resistance to the liberal governments. Imposition of free
trade policies, the suppression of civil rights, and persecution of
the Catholic Church mobilized white opposition to liberal
governors. Mayans fought the seizure of their communal lands. A
long-standing desire for regional autonomy united virtually all
Yucatecans. Richmond analyzes these shifts precisely for scholars
while remaining accessible to general readers fascinated by
Mexico's complex history. He advances the thought-provoking
argument that Yucatan both fared bet ter under the 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
long-running Caste War (Guerra de Castas), the most severe and
sustained peasant revolt in Latin American history. Where other
scholars have advocated the simplistic position that the war was a
Mayan upris ing designed to re-establish 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. Conflict and Carnage in
Yucatan is a welcome addition to scholarship about Yucatan and
about state consolidation, empire, and regionalism.
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