The Caste War of Yucatan
Subtitle: Revised Edition
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: July 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780804740012
Subjects: World history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; Mayas; History - General History; Yucatan (Mexico : State); History: World; Mexico; Latin America - Mexico; Military - Other; History / Mexico; History; Yucatâan (State); Caste War, 1847-1855; Government relations; Wars
First sentence: The death of billions of Tertiary and Holocene creatures; their deposit at the bottom of a warm, shallow sea; their formation into one great lime- stone bed; the eventual rising of that mass above water to become the peninsula of Yucatan-these remote events helped to shape the troubles of 1847.