Violence and the Caste War of Yucatán

Violence and The Caste War of Yucatǹ analyzes the extent and forms of violence employed during one of the most significant indigenous rural revolts in nineteenth-century Latin America: the Caste War of Yucatǹ in the tropical southeast of Mexico. Combining the results of historical, anthropological...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gabbert, Wolfgang, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2019.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Cambridge Latin American studies.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40148956*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Caste War violence : prospect and state of the art
  • Violence in anthropological and sociological perspective
  • Violence in organized groups
  • The context
  • Misery and everyday violence : lower-class rural life
  • Political violence before and beyond the Caste War
  • The beginnings
  • A war of attrition
  • Rebel consolidation
  • The end of rebel autonomy
  • Government forces
  • Violence and suffering within the government forces
  • Violence by government forces against others
  • The social composition of the rebel movement
  • Of loot and lumber : the Kruso'b economy
  • Kruso'b politics and religion
  • Violence among the Kruso'b
  • Kruso'b violence against outsiders
  • Civil war, ideology and motivation
  • Kruso'b and soldiers : parallels and contrasts
  • Caste war casualties
  • The Caste War in broader perspective.