ABSTRACT
In the chapter “Public institutions and border trade in the Mexico-Belize regional space,” Carlos Macías Richard analyzes public institutions and trade in this space in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, focusing his perspective on the institutional strengthening of British Honduras and on common natural resource exploitation and trade processes in a shared scenario. He addresses the issue of Great Britain's presence in Central America and the consolidation of its political institutions for colonial administration, in light of border-environment processes between Belize and Mexico. He examines the impact of the caste war in the border zone and analyzes the formation of Belizean institutions for administering the affairs of what was then a British colony: health, education, resource exploitation, trade, and infrastructure.
