New forms of military organization and regional identity in Yucatan (1847—1853)

The article deals with a theorization of the impact of novel military format (mobilized conscript forces) on regional identities in Latin American context. The State of Yucatan, due to its isolation and magnitude of the Caste War, a social conflict that lasted between 1847 and 1901, emerged as a sort of military and social laboratory, which made possible a use of new, modern principles of war as well as a case study of its impact on self-identification of various social groups and society as a whole.