Peripheral visions
Subtitle: politics, society, and the challenges of modernity in Yucatan
By: edited by Edward D. Terry ... [et al.].
Contributors: Terry, Edward Davis.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780817316808; 9780817355647; 9780817383367
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History; Politics and culture -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History; Social change -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History; Social classes -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History; Economic development -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History; Liberalism -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Politics and government; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Social conditions; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Economic conditions; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Helen Delpar and Ben W. Fallaw; title: pt. 1. Society and politics; title: The Caste War of Yucatan in long-term perspective / Marie Lapointe; title: Casting an image of modernity : Yucatan at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Helen Delpar; title: A measure of liberty : the politics of labor in revolutionary Yucatan, 1915-1918 / Paul K. Eiss; title: Removing the yoke of tradition : Yucatan's revolutionary women,   revolutionary reforms / Stephanie J. Smith; title: The crusade of the Mayab : Cardenista modernization and contestation in Yucatan, 1935-1940 / Ben W. Fallaw; title: Against great odds : Lebanese entrepreneurs and the development of modern Yucatan / Eric N. Baklanoff; title: The decline and collapse of Yucatan's Henequen agro-industry : neoliberalism reconsidered / Othon Banos Ramirez; title: pt. 2. Religion; title: Jose Canuto Vela and Yucatan's "benign" clergy from independence to the reform, 1821-1861 / Lynda S. Morrison; title: From Santa Iglesia to Santa Cruz : Yucatecan popular religion in peace and war, 1800-1876 / Terry Rugeley; title: The resurgence of the Church in Yucatan : the Olegario Molina Crescencio Carrillo alliance, 1867-1901 / Hernan Menendez Rodriguez with Ben W. Fallaw; title: From acrimony to accommodation : church-state relations in revolutionary-era Yucatan, 1915-1940 / Ben W. Fallaw; title: Afterword: Some final thoughts on regional history and the encounter with modernity at Mexico's periphery / Gilbert M. Joseph.