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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Terry Rugeley
Terry Rugeley*
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University of OklahomaNorman, Oklahoma
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The Americas , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , April 1997 , pp. vi - xiii
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References

1 Critical colonial studies include Roys, Ralph L., The Indian Background of Colonial Yucatan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972, orig. 1943Google Scholar); Chamberlain, Robert, The Conquest and Colonization of Yucatan, 1517-1550 (New York: Oregon Books, Inc., 1966, orig. 1948Google Scholar); Hunt, Marta Espejo-Ponce, “Colonial Yucatan: Town and Region in the Seventeenth Century” (Ph.D. Diss. University of California, 1974 Google Scholar); Clendinnen, Inga, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987 Google Scholar); Farriss, Nancy M., Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)Google Scholar; Jones, Grant D., Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: Time and History on a Colonial Frontier (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989)Google Scholar; Patch, Robert W., Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1648-1812 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994)Google Scholar; and Restall, Matthew Bennett, “The World of the Cah: Postconquest Yucatec Maya Society” (Ph.d. Diss. University of California, 1992)Google Scholar.

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6 The three most important publications of these men were, in, chronological order: Robert Redfield and Alfonso Villa Rojas, Chan Kom: A Maya Village (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934)Google Scholar; Redfield, , The Folk Culture of Yucatan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941)Google Scholar; and Rojas, Villa, The Maya of East Central Quintana Roo (Washington: Carnegie Institute, 1943)Google Scholar.

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8 Important unpublished dissertations include Hunt, Marta Espejo-Ponce, “Colonial Yucatan: Town and Region in the Seventeenth Century” (University of California, 1974)Google Scholar; Remmers, Lawrence James, “Henequen, the Caste War and Economy of Yucatan, 1846-1883: The Roots of Dependence in a Mexican Region” (University of California, 1981)Google Scholar; and Thompson, Philip C., “Tekanto in the Eighteenth Century” (Tulane University, 1978)Google Scholar.

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10 Reed, Nelson, The Caste War of Yucatan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964)Google Scholar.

11 Navarro, Moisés González, Raza y tierra: La guerra de castas y el henequén (México: Colegio de México, 1970)Google Scholar. Another Spanish-language treatment which appeared at the same time as Reed, Pinto’s, Ramón Berzuna Guerra social en Yucatán (México: Costa-Amic, 1965)Google Scholar is somewhat less satisfactory. Reina’s, Leticia Las rebeliones campesinas en México (1819-1906) (México: Siglo Veintiuno, 1980), pp. 363–416 Google Scholar, adds valuable information based on her research in Mexico’s Defense Archives.

12 Patch, Robert W., “Agrarian Change in Eighteenth-Century Yucatán,” Hispanic American Historical Review 65:1 (1985), 21–49 Google Scholar; “Decolonization, the Agrarian Problem, and the Origins of the Caste War, 1812-1847,” in Land, Labor, and Capital in Modern Yucatan: Essays in Regional History and Political Economy, Brannon, Jeffery T. and Joseph, Gilbert M., eds. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press), pp. 51–82 Google Scholar.

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15 Three important chapters on the Caste War and Belize appear in Jones, Grant D., ed., Anthropology and History in Yucatán (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977)Google Scholar. See Bolland, O. Nigel, “The Maya and the Colonization of Belize in the Nineteenth Century,” pp. 69–99 Google Scholar; Dumond, D. E., “Independent Maya of the Late Nineteenth Century. Chiefdoms and Power Politics,” pp. 103–138 Google Scholar; and Jones, Grant D., “Levels of Settlement Alliance among the San Pedro Maya of Western Belize and Eastern Peten, 1857-1936,” pp. 139–189 Google Scholar. See also, Cal, Angel Eduardo, “Rural Society and Economic Development: British Mercantile Capital in Nineteenth-Century Belize” (Ph.D. Diss., University of Arizona, 1991)Google Scholar.

16 Bricker, Victoria, The Indian Christ, the Indian King: The Historic Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981)Google Scholar.

17 Rugeley, Terry, Yucatan’s Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996)Google Scholar.

18 Sullivan, Paul, Unfinished Conversations: Mayas and Foreigners Between Two Wars (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989)Google Scholar; Konrad, Herman, “Capitalism on the Tropical-Forest Frontier: Quintana Roo, 1880s to 1930,” Land, Labor, and Capital in Modern Yucatán: Essays in Regional History and Political Economy, Brannon, Jeffery T. and Joseph, Gilbert M. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990), pp. 143–171 Google Scholar; Zapata, Gabriel A. Macias, “Soldados, indios y libre comercio en Quintana Roo, 1893-1903,” Relaciones (Colegio de Michoacán) 49 (1992), 129–152 Google Scholar; Zapata, Macías, “Economía y política entre los mayas icaichés de Quintana Roo, 1893-1980,” unpublished paper presented at the Annual Congress of Mayanists, Chetumal, July 5, 1995 Google Scholar.

19 Angel’s work is drawn from her dissertation “The Aftermath of the Mayan Rebellion of 1847 in the Puuc Region of Yucatan” (University of Manitoba, 1995)Google Scholar. See also, Angel, , “The Reconstruction of Rural Society in the Aftermath of the Mayan Rebellion of 1847.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 4 (1993), 33–53 Google Scholar.

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21 Fallaw, Ben Wallace, “Peasants, Caciques, and Camarillas: Rural Politics and State Formation in Yucatán, 1924-1940” (Ph.D. Diss. University of Chicago, 1995)Google Scholar.

22 Wells and Joseph, Summer of Discontent.