Yucatan state’s military financing during the Caste War in 1847–1851

Abstract

The article addresses to the question of financing of the military in early national Latin America based on the case of challenges that the government of the State of Yucatan faced in the first years of the Caste War –one of the biggest and longest ethnic and social conflicts in the 19th century Latin America– and measures that society, that was hung between tradition and modernity, was forced to adopt.