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Titolo: | Peripheral visions : politics, society, and the challenges of modernity in Yucatan / / edited by Edward D. Terry [and three others] |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa : , : University of Alabama Press, , [2010] |
©2010 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.20972/65 |
Soggetto topico: | Politics and culture - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - History |
Social change - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - History | |
Social classes - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - History | |
Economic development - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - History | |
Liberalism - Economic aspects - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Yucatán (Mexico : State) Politics and government |
Yucatán (Mexico : State) Social conditions | |
Yucatán (Mexico : State) Economic conditions | |
Yucatán (Mexico : State) Religion | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | TerryEdward Davis |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction / Helen Delpar and Ben W. Fallaw -- pt. 1. Society and politics -- The Caste War of Yucatan in long-term perspective / Marie Lapointe -- Casting an image of modernity : Yucatan at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Helen Delpar -- A measure of liberty : the politics of labor in revolutionary Yucatan, 1915-1918 / Paul K. Eiss -- Removing the yoke of tradition : Yucatan's revolutionary women, revolutionary reforms / Stephanie J. Smith -- The crusade of the Mayab : Cardenista modernization and contestation in Yucatan, 1935-1940 / Ben W. Fallaw -- Against great odds : Lebanese entrepreneurs and the development of modern Yucatan / Eric N. Baklanoff -- The decline and collapse of Yucatan's Henequen agro-industry : neoliberalism reconsidered / Othâon Baänos Ramâirez -- pt. 2. Religion -- Josâe Canuto Vela and Yucatan's "benign" clergy from independence to the reform, 1821-1861 / Lynda S. Morrison -- From Santa Iglesia to Santa Cruz : Yucatecan popular religion in peace and war, 1800-1876 / Terry Rugeley -- The resurgence of the Church in Yucatan : the Olegario Molina-Crescencio Carrillo alliance, 1867-1901 / Hernâan Menâendez Rodrâiguez with Ben W. Fallaw -- From acrimony to accommodation : church-state relations in revolutionary-era Yucatan, 1915-1940 / Ben W. Fallaw -- Some final thoughts on regional history and the encounter with modernity at Mexico's periphery / Gilbert M. Joseph. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Yucatan has been called "a world apart"-cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended to remold Yucatan in the image of the advanced nations of the day. Indeed, modernizing change began in the late colonial era and continued throughout the 19th century as traditional patterns of land tenure were altered and efforts were made to divest the Catholic Church of its wealth and political and inte |
Titolo autorizzato: | PERIPHERAL visions |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8336-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910465466803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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