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- Rediscovering The Past at Mexico's Periphery: Essays on the History of Modern Yucatan
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
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Surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research
Increasingly, the modern era of Mexican history (c. 1750 to the present) is attracting the attention of Mexican and international scholars. Significant studies have appeared for most of the major regions and Yucatán, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal and an abundant scholarship. This book surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research.
Rather than compiling lists of sources around given subject headings in the manner of many historiographies, the author seeks common ground for analysis in the new literature’s preoccupation with changing relations of land, labor, and capital and their impact on regional society and culture. Joseph proposes a new periodization of Yucatán’s modern history which he develops in a series of synthetic essays rooted in regional political economy.
Increasingly, the modern era of Mexican history (c. 1750 to the present) is attracting the attention of Mexican and international scholars. Significant studies have appeared for most of the major regions and Yucatán, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal and an abundant scholarship. This book surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research.
Rather than compiling lists of sources around given subject headings in the manner of many historiographies, the author seeks common ground for analysis in the new literature’s preoccupation with changing relations of land, labor, and capital and their impact on regional society and culture. Joseph proposes a new periodization of Yucatán’s modern history which he develops in a series of synthetic essays rooted in regional political economy.
Table of Contents
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- List of Photographs
- p. viii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. 1-2
- Part 1. Writing History in Yucatan
- 1. The Recent Boom
- pp. 5-13
- Epilogue: Retrospect and Prospect
- pp. 130-139
- Bibliography
- pp. 181-200
- About the Author
- p. 206
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817389840
Related ISBN(s)
9780817302689, 9780817350673
MARC Record
OCLC
966825581
Pages
222
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No