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

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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