Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915

by Allen Wells, Gilbert M. Joseph, Gilbert Joseph

Book Overview

This book addresses a central problem often ignored by students of twentieth-century Mexico: the breakdown of the old order during the first years of the revolutionary era. That process was more contested and gradual in Yucatan than in any other Mexican region, and this close examination of the Yucatan experience sheds light on an issue of particular relevance to students of Central America, South America's southern cone, and other postcolonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726566
• ISBN13: 9780804726566
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"