The Yucatan Times Newsroom. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Feature, Historic Yucatan, Merida. The Caste War of Yucatan. By Yucatan Times on August 2, Yucatan Times. With crowds and without a healthy distance, face-to-face classes begin in Campeche Campeche, November 11, The Caste War is thus a story of a particular place and time.
It is also one version of a drama that played itself out in many parts of early national Mexico. Above all, the Caste War is a parable of the depths and extremes to which humanity can descend, and, mercifully, from which it is capable of returning. There have been numerous attempts to capture the entirety of peninsular history in a single work. These range from early patrician works motivated by regional pride to more contemporary scholarly works that attempt to synthesize new generations of scholarship.
The works listed in this section comprise some of the more notable attempts to take in Yucatecan history as a whole, with the Caste War forming a critical part of that totality.
Despite its relatively late publication date, Acereto constitutes something of a last gasp of that tradition. Both Joseph and Quezada offer newer perspectives based on synthesis of scholarly historical studies.
Acereto, Albino. Edited by Carlos A. Trujillo, 1— A comprehensive synthesis of peninsular history, written by the descendent of one of the families most deeply involved in Caste War history. Ancona, Eligio. Like all patrician writings, this is steeped in now-discredited racial attitudes. Joseph, Gilbert M. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, All levels and collections.
Description Desc. Reviews of the First Edition "Reed has not only written a fine account of the caste war, he has also given us the first penetrating analysis of the social and economic systems of Yucatan in the 19th and 20th centuries. More in History—Latin American.
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