Yucatan in an Era of GlobalizationEric N. Baklanoff, Edward H. Moseley University of Alabama Press, 2008 M03 18 - 192 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Yucatán since the 1982 Mexican Debt Crisis | 1 |
1 Yucatáns Prelude to Globalization | 20 |
2 Globalization and the Evolving Port Landscape of Progreso | 42 |
Yucatáns Entrepreneurial Elite from the Revolution to Globalization | 69 |
Mexicos Other Maquiladora Frontier | 92 |
A Maya Village and the Lights of Cancún | 112 |
6 Chan Kom Tourism and Migration in the Making of the New Maya Milpas | 134 |
Two Communities Share Globalization | 147 |
An Alternative Tourism for Yucatán | 164 |
Contributors | 185 |
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