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The Guatemala Reader

History, Culture, Politics
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Book
Pages: 688
Illustrations: 105 illustrations, 10 color plates, 1 map
Published: October 2011

Editor(s): Greg Grandin, Deborah T.

Levenson, Elizabeth Oglesby

Subjects
General Interest > Travel, Native and
Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies >
Central America

This reader brings together more than 200

texts and images in a broad introduction to
Guatemala's history, culture, and politics.
In choosing the selections, the editors
sought to avoid representing the country
only in terms of its long experience of
conflict, racism, and violence. And so,
while offering many perspectives on that
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Table of Contents Back to Top

List of Illustrations xv

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction 1

I. The Maya: Before the Europeans 11

II. Invasion and Colonialism 39

III. A Caffeinated Modernism 107

IV. Ten Years of Spring and Beyond 197

V. Roads to Revolution 281

VI. Intent to Destroy 361

VII. An Unsettled Peace 441

VIII. Maya Movements 501

IX. The Sixth Century 545

Suggestions for Further Reading 625

Acknowledgment of Copyrights and

Sources 641

Index 653

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Paper ISBN: 978-0-8223-5107-8 / Cloth

ISBN: 978-0-8223-5094-1

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