Abstract

BRACAMONTE Y SOSA, Pedro. Yucatán: una región socioeconómica en la historia. Península [online]. 2007, vol.2, n.2, pp.15-32. ISSN 1870-5766.

This article focuses on an historical analysis of the Yucatan Peninsula and how it was constructed as a region from the beginning of the Spanish conquest, building upon the region's distinctive characteristics such as the physical setting and the constant presence of a large Mayan population. I will examine, from a selection of texts, the conditions that gave rise to the inception of three socio-economic models that drove the development of capitalism and explain the region's modernity from the 1970s onward. These models are: "seignorial"; that which remained linked to the agricultural businesses of the nineteenth century; and that which corresponds to present-day capitalistic practices.

Keywords : Yucatan; region; mayans.

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