Family Elites in a Boom-and-Bust Economy
The Molinas and Peóns of Porfirian Yucatán
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2828752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allen Wells (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publication date | 1982-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2514979 |
| OpenAlex | W4234789906 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
W X 7RITING for American Magazine in 1909, John Kenneth Turner offered North American readers a scathing indictment of Yucata'n's henequen oligarchy. Turner, who had visited local henequen estates a year before, depicted a brutal, repressive regime on the plantations; in large measure, he created the image we have today of the prototypical Yucatecan henequen planter (henequenero). Gorged with windfall profits unjustly reaped from the toil of a beaten, dependent labor force, this member of the casta divina built fabulous palaces on Merida's fashionable Paseo de Montejo. He traveled and educated his children abroad and generally pampered himself. Looking to the far-off capitals of the western world for inspiration and design, the prosperous henequeneros built ornate palaces with marble pillars, intricately carved facades, and ostentatious stained-glass enclosed porticoes.d Today, peeling and cracking paint adorns the weatherbeaten, ruined homes. The once impressive pillars now shadow decayed and run-down estates. Architectural imitations of nineteenth-century European mansions, these graphic heirlooms of henequen's Golden Age, a period of forty years encompassing the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first years of the present century, offer a visual reminder of the glaring inequities of Mexico's ancien regime
Art · Art history · Boom · Bust · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Oligarchy · Political science · Politics · Shadow (psychology) · Visual arts · Engineering · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
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Collaboration and Informal Empire in Yucatán
Summer of Discontent
Mexican Peonage
Family Affairs
Planters and Politics in Peru, 1895-1919
New and Old Social Movements Measuring Pisté, from the" Mouth of the Well" to the 107th Municipio of Yucatán
L'Etat Sur le Marché
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2012 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |