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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824014303321

Autore

Reeves Rene

Titolo

Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indians : land, labor, and regional ethnic conflict in the making of Guatemala / / Rene Reeves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8047-6777-7

1-4294-5678-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

323.1197/4207281

Soggetti

Mayas - Guatemala - Ethnic identity

Mayas - Land tenure - Guatemala

Mayas - Guatemala - Politics and government

Ladino (Latin American people) - Guatemala - Ethnic identity

Ladino (Latin American people) - Land tenure - Guatemala

Ladino (Latin American people) - Guatemala - Politics and government

Land reform - Guatemala - History

Ethnic conflict - Guatemala - History

Social problems - Guatemala - History

Guatemala Ethnic relations

Guatemala Social conditions

Guatemala Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Re-writing Guatemala's nineteenth century -- The transformation of Mam Quezaltenango from culaha to independence -- Disputing property : national politics and local ethnic conflict in the formation of a Guatemalan coffee zone -- Debt, labor coercion, and the expansion of commercial agriculture -- Intoxicating politics : gender, ethnicity and alcohol in the transition to liberal rule -- From Ladino state to Ladino nation : the malformation of Guatemalan national identity -- Popular insurrection, liberal reform, and nation-state formation : final reflections on Guatemala's nineteenth century.

Sommario/riassunto

In the late 1830's, an uprising of mestizos and Maya destroyed



Guatemala's Liberal government. Liberal partisans were unable to retake the state until 1871. In contrast to the late 1830's, they met only sporadic resistance. This work confronts this paradox of Guatemala's nineteenth century by focusing on the rural folk of the western highlands.