Empire on Edge - The British Struggle for Order in Belize During Yucatan s Caste War,

Informationen zum Autor Rajeshwari Dutt is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. She is the author of Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán (2017). Klappentext Reveals how British officials attempted to understand and impose order on northern Belize during the second half of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This transnational account of colonialism at the margins reveals why frontiers are key to understanding imperial anxieties and conflicts. This book is the first monograph to explore Yucatán's Caste War of 1847–1901 in the context of frontiers and borderlands studies, British history, and imperial and colonial studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Business as usual; 2. Ungoverned passions; 3. Costs of protection; 4. Uneasy alliances; 5. The enemy within; 6. Loyal subjects; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Rajeshwari Dutt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108493420
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49342-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mexico, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Belize, History - General History, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas