Outside the Hacienda Walls: The Archaeology of Plantation Peonage in Nineteenth-Century Yucat?n

by Allan Meyers

Book Overview

The Mexican Revolution was a tumultuous struggle for social and political reform that ousted an autocrat and paved the way for a new national constitution. The conflict, however, came late to Yucat n, where a network of elite families with largely European roots held the reins of government. This privileged group reaped spectacular wealth from haciendas, cash-crop plantations tended by debt-ridden servants of Maya descent. When a revolutionary army...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529949
• ISBN13: 9780816529940
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"