Outside the Hacienda Walls: The Archaeology of Plantation Peonage in Nineteenth-Century Yucatán

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529957
• ISBN13: 9780816529957
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"