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Title Yucatán in an era of globalization / edited by Eric N. Baklanoff and Edward H. Moseley.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 192 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "Published in cooperation with the Alfredo Barrera Vásquez Center for Yucatecan Studies."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Yucatán's prelude to globalization / Edward H. Moseley and Helen Delpar -- Globalization and the evolving port landscape of Progreso / Michael S. Yoder -- A wheel of fortune : Yucatán's entrepreneurial elite from the revolution to globalization / Luis Alfonso Ramírez -- Yucatán, Mexico's other maquiladora frontier / Eric N. Baklanoff -- Tinum, Yucatán : a Maya village and the lights of Cancún / Paula R. Heusinkveld -- Chan Kom : tourism and migration in the making of the new Maya milpas / Alicia Re Cruz -- From Tallapoosa to Tixkokob : two communities share globalization / Edward H. Moseley -- Embracing community : an alternative tourism for Yucatán / Kathleen R. Martin and William A. Martín González.
Summary Describes the changes to Yucatan's society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico's economy. This work charts the accelerated change in Yucatan from a monocrop economy to a beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization.
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Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Globalization -- Economic aspects.
Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Baklanoff, Eric N.
Moseley, Edward H., 1931-2005.
Other Form: Print version: Yucatán in an era of globalization. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007032101
ISBN 9780817380045 (electronic)
0817380043 (electronic)
9780817316037 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780817354763 (paperback ; alkaline paper)