Date of Award
12-1-2025
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
History
First Advisor
Najar, Jose
Abstract
This study examines the impact of the Caste War of Yucatán had on the geopolitical relationship between the United States and Mexico in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. The briefly independent Republic of Yucatán requested foreign intervention to end the Caste War. The United States debated intervention in Yucatán, while Mexico, still reeling from the loss of the Mexican-American War and dealing with internal political conflict, made steps to reincorporate Yucatán back into Mexico and to diplomatically resist American expansion. Examining the political landscape of the United States and Mexico in the spring of 1848 offers an alternate perspective of how differing political ideologies and nation-building projects in the United States and Mexico dealt with the Yucatán crisis.
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