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

(Part of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas Series)

by Allan Meyers

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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"

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

(Part of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas Series)

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