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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809944103321

Autore

Rugeley Terry <1956->

Titolo

The river people in flood time : the civil wars in Tabasco, spoiler of empires / / Terry Rugeley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9312-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)

Disciplina

972/.04

Soggetti

HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico

Tabasco (Mexico : State) History 19th century

Mexico History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Imperial Spoilers -- 1. Origin Time -- 2. The Last Empire -- 3. Unruly Behavior at the Water’s Edge -- 4. The Outsider -- 5. The Invaders -- 6. The Unreformed -- 7. The Resistance -- 8. The Ax -- Conclusion: The Death of a Fakir and the Agony of Old Tabasco -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This title tells the 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 1860's, thus remaining free territory while the rest of the nation struggled for four painful years under the imposed monarchy of Maximilian.