Table of Contents

List of tables and figures ix

Foreword / Alan Knight xi

Preface xix

Acknowledgments xxvi

Prologue: Yucatan receives a revolution 1

Part I. The Parameters of Revolution

1. Plant and plantation: the development of a monocrop economy 13

2. The henequen boom: oligarchy and informal empire, 1880-1915 33

3. The revolutionary equation within Yucatan: the problem of mobilization 70

Part II. The Bourgeois Revolution, 1915-1918

4. Salvador Alvarado and bourgeois revolution from without 93

5. The theory and practice of bourgeois reform: land and the export economy 122

6. The breakdown of bourgeois revolution, 1918-1920 150

Part III. The Socialist Revolution, 1920-1930

7. Felipe Carrillo Puerto and the rise of Yucatecan socialism 185

8. The ideology and praxis of a socialist revolution: agrarian reform and the henequen industry 228

9. The failure of revolution from within, 1923-1924 263

Epilogue: With revolution, 1924- : Yucatan's legacy of frustration 288

Appendix: Agrarian reform, 1915-1927 305

Abbreviations used in notes 308

Notes 311

Select bibliography 373

Index 392