Rediscovering the Past at Mexico's Periphery: Essays on the History of Modern Yucatan - Hardcover

Joseph, Gilbert M.

9780817302689: Rediscovering the Past at Mexico's Periphery: Essays on the History of Modern Yucatan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817302689 ISBN 13: 9780817302689

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 1986

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 Yucat�n, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal and an abundant scholarship. This book surveys major trends in Yucat�n’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 Yucat�n’s modern history which he develops in a series of synthetic essays rooted in regional political economy.

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About the Author:

Gilbert M. Joseph is Associate Professor of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Review:

“Joseph’s manuscript is an important original work of scholarship which will become a necessary point of departure for not only academics interested in modern Yucat�n, but also for scholars concerned with regional and revisionist studies throughout Latin America. This is not only the first historiography of Yucat�n; it is exhaustive.” – Allen Wells, Appalachian State University

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