Yucatán in an era of globalization (University of Alabama Press, 2008)
"Published in cooperation with the Alfredo Barrera Vásquez Center for Yucatecan Studies."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Yucatán's prelude to globalization / Edward H. Moseley and Helen Delpar -- Globalization and the evolving port landscape of Progreso / Michael S. Yoder -- A wheel of fortune : Yucatán's entrepreneurial elite from the revolution to globalization / Luis Alfonso Ramírez -- Yucatán, Mexico's other maquiladora frontier / Eric N. Baklanoff -- Tinum, Yucatán : a Maya village and the lights of Cancún / Paula R. Heusinkveld -- Chan Kom : tourism and migration in the making of the new Maya milpas / Alicia Re Cruz -- From Tallapoosa to Tixkokob : two communities share globalization / Edward H. Moseley -- Embracing community : an alternative tourism for Yucatán / Kathleen R. Martin and William A. Martín González
Describes the changes to Yucatan's society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico's economy. This work charts the accelerated change in Yucatan from a monocrop economy to a beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization