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"In addition to the relevance provided by contemporary events, the republication of "Revolution from Without" comes at a particularly effervescent moment in Latin American revolutionary studies. An ongoing discourse among political sociologists, anthropologists and historians has greatly enriched our understanding of the political economy and social history of revolutions and popular insurgencies."--from the preface to the paperback edition
List of contents
List of tables and figures ix
Foreword / Alan Knight xi
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxvi
Prologue: Yucatan receives a revolution 1
Part I. The Parameters of Revolution
1. Plant and plantation: the development of a monocrop economy 13
2. The henequen boom: oligarchy and informal empire, 1880-1915 33
3. The revolutionary equation within Yucatan: the problem of mobilization 70
Part II. The Bourgeois Revolution, 1915-1918
4. Salvador Alvarado and bourgeois revolution from without 93
5. The theory and practice of bourgeois reform: land and the export economy 122
6. The breakdown of bourgeois revolution, 1918-1920 150
Part III. The Socialist Revolution, 1920-1930
7. Felipe Carrillo Puerto and the rise of Yucatecan socialism 185
8. The ideology and praxis of a socialist revolution: agrarian reform and the henequen industry 228
9. The failure of revolution from within, 1923-1924 263
Epilogue: With revolution, 1924- : Yucatan's legacy of frustration 288
Appendix: Agrarian reform, 1915-1927 305
Abbreviations used in notes 308
Notes 311
Select bibliography 373
Index 392
About the author
Gilbert M. Joseph
Summary
Revolution from without: Yucatan, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924.
