Murder in Mérida 1792 Violence Factions and the Law 1st Edition by Mark Lentz 0826359604 9780826359605

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ISBN 10: 0826359604 

ISBN 13: 9780826359605

Author: Mark W Lentz

During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Mérida, Yucatan, and murdered the province’s top royal official, don Lucas de Gálvez. This book recounts the mystery of the Gálvez murder and its resolution, an event that captured contemporaries’ imaginations throughout the Hispanic world and caused consternation on the part of authorities in both Mexico and Madrid.

In this work Lentz further provides a readable introduction to the Bourbon Reforms as well as new insights on late colonial Yucatecan society through the vast depictions of the cross-section of Yucatecan people questioned during the decade it took to uncover the assassin’s identity. These suspects and witnesses, from all walks of life, reveal the interconnected layers found in colonial Yucatecan society and the social networks of Mérida’s urban underclass as well as their unexpected ties to the creole elites and rural Mayas that have previously been unexplored.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Intendant’s Enemies

Chapter 3 The Suspects of 1792

Chapter 4 Neither Free nor Family

Chapter 5 Into the Countryside

Outsiders, Intermediaries, and the Maya World

Chapter 6 A Stratified Cah, United by Language

Chapter 7 Divided at the Top

Chapter 8 A Strange Turn of Events

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