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The Machete and the Cross
Don E. Dumond
其他書名
Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan
出版
U of Nebraska Press
, 1997-01-01
主題
History / Latin America / South America
History / Latin America / Mexico
ISBN
9780803217065
0803217064
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=S7XIkk91g08C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Violent class struggles and ethnic conflict mark much of the history of Latin America, continuing in some regions even today. Perhaps the worst and most prolonged of these conflicts was the guerra de las castas or ?Caste War,? an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847?1903). The struggle was not only ethnic, pitting indigenous peoples against a Hispanic or Hispanicized ruling class, but also economic, involving attacks by rural campesinos on plantation owners, merchants, overseers, and townspeople. The rebels met with sporadic and limited success but still managed at times to remove whole portions of the Yucatan Peninsula from state control. ø Don E. Dumond?s work is the anticipated complete history of the Caste War. Drawing on primary sources, he presents the first comprehensive description of this turbulent century of conflict in Yucatan and sets forth a carefully argued analysis of the reasons and broader social, political, and economic processes underlying the struggle.