Revolution from Without

Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University.

• List of tables and figures ixForeword / Alan Knight xiPreface xixAcknowledgments xxviPrologue: Yucatan receives a revolution 1Part I. The Parameters of Revolution 1. Plant and plantation: the development of a monocrop economy 132. The henequen boom: oligarchy and informal empire, 1880-1915 333. The revolutionary equation within Yucatan: the problem of mobilization 70Part II. The Bourgeois Revolution, 1915-1918 4. Salvador Alvarado and bourgeois revolution from without 935. The theory and practice of bourgeois reform: land and the export economy 1226. The breakdown of bourgeois revolution, 1918-1920 150Part III. The Socialist Revolution, 1920-1930 7. Felipe Carrillo Puerto and the rise of Yucatecan socialism 1858. The ideology and praxis of a socialist revolution: agrarian reform and the henequen industry 2289. The failure of revolution from within, 1923-1924 263Epilogue: With revolution, 1924- : Yucatan's legacy of frustration 288Appendix: Agrarian reform, 1915-1927 305Abbreviations used in notes 308Notes 311Select bibliography 373Index 392

"In addition to the relevance provided by contemporary events, the republication of Revolution from Without comes at a particularly effervescent moment in Latin American revolutionary studies. An ongoing discourse among political sociologists, anthropologists and historians has greatly enriched our understanding of the political economy and social history of revolutions and popular insurgencies." - from the preface to the paperback edition