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Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
The Yucatán Peninsula has one of the longest, most
multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of
Europeans, native Maya with long and successful cultural and
diplomatic traditions of their own had to grapple with outside
forces attempting to impose new templates of life and politics on
them.
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán provides a
rigorously researched study of the vexed and bloody period of
1855 to 1876, during which successive national governments
implemented, replaced, and restored liberal policies.
Synthesizing an extensive and heterogeneous range of sources,
Douglas W. Richmond covers three tumultuous political upheavals
of this period. First, Mexico’s fledgling republic
attempted to impose a liberal ideology at odds with traditional
Maya culture on Yucatán; then, the French-backed regime of
Emperor Maximilian began to reform Yucatán; and, finally,
the republican forces of Benito Juárez restored the liberal
hegemony. Many issues spurred resistance to these liberal
governments. Instillation of free trade policies, the suppression
of civil rights, and persecution of the Roman Catholic Church
mobilized white opposition to liberal governors. The Mayas fought
the seizure of their communal properties. A long-standing desire
for regional autonomy united virtually all Yucatecans. Richmond
advances the thought-provoking argument that Yucatán both
fared better under Maximilian’s Second Empire than under
the liberal republic and would have thrived more had the Second
Empire not collapsed. The most violent and bloody manifestation
of these broad conflicts was the Caste War (Guerra de Castas),
the longest sustained peasant revolt in Latin American history.
Where other scholars have advocated the simplistic position that
the war was a Maya uprising designed to reestablish a mythical
past civilization, Richmond’s sophisticated recounting of
political developments from 1855 to 1876 restores nuance and
complexity to this pivotal time in Yucatecan history.
Richmond’s
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán is a welcome
addition to scholarship about Mexico and Yucatán as well as
about state consolidation, empire, and regionalism.
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Yucatecan-Mexican Relations and Yucatecan Politicking from 1829–1832: Centralism, Secession, and Federalism
This paper will explore Yucatecan-Mexican relations and local Yucatecan politicking during the early national period, using Yucatán’spronunciamientosof 1829 to 1832 as case studies. This examination will highlight that, while Yucatán has historically been perceived as a marginal and pro-autonomous state of early nineteenth-century Mexico, in fact, the years of Yucatecan secession from 1829–1832 were instigated by a small but powerful government, and the majority of Yucatecan economic, military and political factions still desired unification with and possessed loyalty to Mexico. In turn, this examination will contribute to re-defining the identification of Yucatán as a secessionist state.
Este artículo explora las relaciones México-Yucatán y la forma yucateca de hacer política durante los primeros años del periodo nacional, tomando como caso los pronunciamientos de 1829 y 1832. Nuestro examen subrayará que, aun cuando Yucatán haya sido percibido históricamente como un estado marginal y pro-autónomo de principios del sigloxixen México, los años de secesión yucateca, entre 1829 y 1832, realmente fueron instigados por un gobierno pequeño pero poderoso, y la mayoría de las facciones económicas, militares y políticas yucatecas aún deseaban la unificación y eran leales a México. A su vez, este examen contribuirá a redefinir la identificación de Yucatán como un estado secesionista.
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