The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan

by Don E. Dumond

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803217064
• ISBN13: 9780803217065
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 573 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"