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The River People in Flood Time - The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires (Hardcover)
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The River People in Flood Time - The Civil Wars in Tabasco, Spoiler of Empires (Hardcover)
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"The River People in Flood Time" tells the astonishing story of how
the people of nineteenth-century Tabasco, Mexico, overcame
impossible odds to expel one foreign intervention after another.
Tabascans resisted control by Mexico City, overcame the grip of a
Cuban adventurer who seized control of the region for two years,
turned back the United States Navy, and defeated the French
Intervention of the early 1860s, thus remaining free territory
while the rest of the nation struggled for four painful years under
the imposed monarchy of Maximilian.
With colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches, this deeply
researched and masterfully written history reconstructs the lives
and culture of the Tabascans, as well as their pre-Columbian and
colonial past. Rugeley reveals how over the centuries, one colorful
character after another sets foot on the Tabascan stage, only to be
undone by climate, disease, and more than anything else, tenacious
Tabascan resistance. Virtually the only English-language study of
this little-known province, "River People in Flood Time" explores
the ways in which geography, climate, and social relationships
contributed to their extraordinarily successful defense against
unwelcome meddling from the outside world.
"River People in Flood Time" demonstrates the complex relationship
between imperial forces in relation to remote parts of Latin
America, and the way that resistance to external pressure helped
mold the thoughts, attitudes, and actions of those remote peoples.
Nineteenth-century Mexico was more a land of localities than a
unified nation, and Rugeley's narrative paints an indelible
portrait of one of its least known and most unique provinces.
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