Since the publication of the first English-language book on the subject by Nelson Reed (in 1964), several scholars have dealt with the Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901), one of the most important rural insurgencies in nineteenth-century Mexico, including Marie Lapointe, Don Dumond, Terry Rugeley, and myself. The main focus of these studies was on the Mexican part of the Yucatán Peninsula and the largest group of insurgents, the so-called Kruso'ob. Only recently has the situation in the border region between Mexico and the British settlement in Belize been given greater attention, particularly by Martha Villalobos González, Lean Sweeney, and Rajeshwari Dutt.
Against this background, Christine Kray's book examines the changing relations between groups of insurgents who made peace with the Yucatecan government in 1853 (known as the Pacíficos del Sur) and the British administration, from 1847 to the so-called “last Indian attack” on Belize in 1872 (p. 17). It takes...
