Name: Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula (en Inglés)
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Author: John Robert Gust; Jennifer P. Mathews
ISBN: 9780816538881

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Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Arizona Press

Autor

John Robert Gust; Jennifer P. Mathews

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780816538881

Categorías

México
Historia de américa

Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula (en Inglés)

John Robert Gust; Jennifer P. Mathews (Autor) · University Of Arizona Press · Tapa Blanda

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While the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico may conjure up images of vacation getaways and cocktails by the sea, these easy stereotypes hide a story filled with sweat and toil. The story of sugarcane and rum production in the Caribbean has been told many times. But few know the bittersweet story of sugar and rum in the jungles of the Yucatán Peninsula during the nineteenth century. This is much more than a history of coveted commodities. The unique story that unfolds in John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Mathews&;s new history Sugarcane and Rum is told through the lens of Maya laborers who worked under brutal conditions on small haciendas to harvest sugarcane and produce rum.Gust and Mathews weave together ethnographic interviews and historical archives with archaeological evidence to bring the daily lives of Maya workers into focus. They lived in a cycle of debt, forced to buy all of their supplies from the company store and take loans from the hacienda owners. And yet they had a certain autonomy because the owners were so dependent on their labor at harvest time. We also see how the rise of cantinas and distilled alcohol in the nineteenth century affected traditional Maya culture and that the economies of Cancún and the Mérida area are predicated on the rum-influenced local social systems of the past. Sugarcane and Rum brings this bittersweet story to the present and explains how rum continues to impact the Yucatán and the people who have lived there for millennia.