Overview

Owing to Yucatan's relative isolation, many assume that the history and economy of the peninsula have evolved in a distinctive way, apart from the central government in Mexico City and insulated from world social and economic factors. The essays in this volume suggest that this has not been the case: the process of development in Yucatan has been linked firmly to national and global forces of change over the past two centuries. The essays are by U.S., Mexican, Canadian, and Belizean social scientists representing both well-established and younger scholars. The result is a perspective on Yucatan's historical development that is at once international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational. In this volume, all of the contributors are genuinely comfortable with the theories and approaches of several disciplines--economics, history, and anthropology, and sociology. All have used largely untapped, primary, archival sources, and the result is a fascinating offering of new information.

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In eight superb essays, each a model of regional or micro historical research, the contributors analyze how national and global forces of change impinged on Yucatan and shaped land tenure and production, labor conditions and utilization, and the power and employment of capital. -- Latin American Historical Review

In eight superb essays, each a model of regional or micro historical research, the contributors analyze how national and global forces of change impinged on Yucatan and shaped land tenure and production, labor conditions and utilization, and the power and employment of capital. <i>Latin American Historical Review</i>

In eight superb essays, each a model of regional or micro historical research, the contributors analyze how national and global forces of change impinged on Yucatan and shaped land tenure and production, labor conditions and utilization, and the power and employment of capital. --Latin American Historical Review

In eight superb essays, each a model of regional or micro historical research, the contributors analyze how national and global forces of change impinged on Yucatan and shaped land tenure and production, labor conditions and utilization, and the power and employment of capital. Latin American Historical Review

In eight superb essays, each a model of regional or micro historical research, the contributors analyze how national and global forces of change impinged on Yucatan and shaped land tenure and production, labor conditions and utilization, and the power and employment of capital. Latin American Historical Review

Author Information

Jeffery T. Brannon is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at El Paso. Gilbert M. Joseph is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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