Empire on Edge
The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatan's Caste War, 1847–1901
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-73705-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-73705-0 (ISBN)
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.
How does empire operate in frontiers and borderlands during times of conflict? Empire on Edge reveals how British officials attempted, during the second half of the nineteenth century, to understand and impose order on northern Belize, an area that was both a frontier of colonial power and the locus of a disputed border with Mexico. Their efforts were complicated by the local ramifications of Yucatán's Caste War (1847–1901), a long-lasting, violent struggle between segments of the indigenous Maya in southeast Mexico and the Mexican state. The book also illuminates how people who were subject to these efforts, especially the Hispanic and various Maya groups, sought to thwart them by building alliances across seemingly firm lines of racial and ethnic division. Along the way, important questions are raised about the dissonance between colonial and imperial projects, the nature of frontiers and borderlands, and the local effects of disputes between bordering countries.
How does empire operate in frontiers and borderlands during times of conflict? Empire on Edge reveals how British officials attempted, during the second half of the nineteenth century, to understand and impose order on northern Belize, an area that was both a frontier of colonial power and the locus of a disputed border with Mexico. Their efforts were complicated by the local ramifications of Yucatán's Caste War (1847–1901), a long-lasting, violent struggle between segments of the indigenous Maya in southeast Mexico and the Mexican state. The book also illuminates how people who were subject to these efforts, especially the Hispanic and various Maya groups, sought to thwart them by building alliances across seemingly firm lines of racial and ethnic division. Along the way, important questions are raised about the dissonance between colonial and imperial projects, the nature of frontiers and borderlands, and the local effects of disputes between bordering countries.
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).
Introduction; 1. Business as usual; 2. Ungoverned passions; 3. Costs of protection; 4. Uneasy alliances; 5. The enemy within; 6. Loyal subjects; Conclusion.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.11.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 8 Maps; 5 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 332 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-73705-6 / 1108737056 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-73705-0 / 9781108737050 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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