edited by Eric N. Baklanoff and Edward H. Moseley foreword by Gilbert M. Joseph
University of Alabama Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-8173-5476-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8004-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-1603-7 Library of Congress Classification HF1482.9.Y93Y83 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 303.4827265
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This work describes the profound changes to Yucatán’s society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico’s economy. The editors have assembled contributions from seasoned “Yucatecologists”—historians, geographers, cultural students, and an economist—to chart the accelerated change in Yucatán from a monocrop economy to a full beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Eric N. Baklanoff is Board of Visitors Research Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Agrarian Reform and Public Enterprise in Mexico: The Political Economy of Yucatán’s Henequen Industry, with Jeffery Brannon, among other works.
The late Edward H. Moseley was Professor Emeritus of History and Director, Capstone International Center, University of Alabama, where he was also a former Director of Latin American Studies. He was co-editor of Yucatán, A World Apart, with Edward D. Terry.
REVIEWS
“This painstakingly researched volume engagingly details Yucatán’s evolving encounter with the multi-stranded process that is globalization. In the best tradition of scholarship on the region published herein, the collection works across several disciplines and is informed by analysis at different levels of the world system. In the process, it addresses the historical determinants of globalization, the diverse ways in which global processes are experienced in urban and rural contexts, and the dilemmas and opportunities that globalization portends for the region.”
—Gilbert M. Joseph, Farnam Professor of History and International Studies, Yale University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations 000
Preface 000
Introduction: Yucatan since the 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis
Eric N. Baklanoff 000
1. Yucatan's Prelude to Globalization
Edward H. Moseley and Helen Delpar 000
2. Globalization and the Evolving Port Landscape of Progreso
Michael S. Yoder 000
3. A Wheel of Fortune: Yucatan's Entrepreneurial Elite from the Revolution to
Globalization
Luis Alfonso Ramirez 000
4. Yucatan: Mexico's Other Maquiladora Frontier
Eric N. Baklanoff 000
5. Tinum, Yucatan: A Maya Village and the Lights of Cancun
Paula R. Heusinkveld 000
6. Chan Kom Tourism and Migration in the Making of the New Maya Milpas
Alicia Re Cruz 000
7. From Tallapoosa to Tixkokob: Two Communities Share Globalization
Edward H. Moseley 000
8. Embracing Community: An Alternative Tourism for Yucatan
Kathleen R. Martin and William A. Martin Gonzalez 000
Contributors 000
Index 000
edited by Eric N. Baklanoff and Edward H. Moseley foreword by Gilbert M. Joseph
University of Alabama Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-8173-5476-3 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8004-5 Cloth: 978-0-8173-1603-7
This work describes the profound changes to Yucatán’s society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico’s economy. The editors have assembled contributions from seasoned “Yucatecologists”—historians, geographers, cultural students, and an economist—to chart the accelerated change in Yucatán from a monocrop economy to a full beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Eric N. Baklanoff is Board of Visitors Research Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Agrarian Reform and Public Enterprise in Mexico: The Political Economy of Yucatán’s Henequen Industry, with Jeffery Brannon, among other works.
The late Edward H. Moseley was Professor Emeritus of History and Director, Capstone International Center, University of Alabama, where he was also a former Director of Latin American Studies. He was co-editor of Yucatán, A World Apart, with Edward D. Terry.
REVIEWS
“This painstakingly researched volume engagingly details Yucatán’s evolving encounter with the multi-stranded process that is globalization. In the best tradition of scholarship on the region published herein, the collection works across several disciplines and is informed by analysis at different levels of the world system. In the process, it addresses the historical determinants of globalization, the diverse ways in which global processes are experienced in urban and rural contexts, and the dilemmas and opportunities that globalization portends for the region.”
—Gilbert M. Joseph, Farnam Professor of History and International Studies, Yale University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations 000
Preface 000
Introduction: Yucatan since the 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis
Eric N. Baklanoff 000
1. Yucatan's Prelude to Globalization
Edward H. Moseley and Helen Delpar 000
2. Globalization and the Evolving Port Landscape of Progreso
Michael S. Yoder 000
3. A Wheel of Fortune: Yucatan's Entrepreneurial Elite from the Revolution to
Globalization
Luis Alfonso Ramirez 000
4. Yucatan: Mexico's Other Maquiladora Frontier
Eric N. Baklanoff 000
5. Tinum, Yucatan: A Maya Village and the Lights of Cancun
Paula R. Heusinkveld 000
6. Chan Kom Tourism and Migration in the Making of the New Maya Milpas
Alicia Re Cruz 000
7. From Tallapoosa to Tixkokob: Two Communities Share Globalization
Edward H. Moseley 000
8. Embracing Community: An Alternative Tourism for Yucatan
Kathleen R. Martin and William A. Martin Gonzalez 000
Contributors 000
Index 000
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC