03370nam 2200637Ia 450 991078600010332120230126205822.00-8130-4343-30-8130-4252-6(CKB)2670000000259226(EBL)1035385(OCoLC)812174501(SSID)ssj0000722568(PQKBManifestationID)11434247(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000722568(PQKBWorkID)10694769(PQKB)11509613(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107587(MiAaPQ)EBC1035385(MdBmJHUP)muse22500(Au-PeEL)EBL1035385(CaPaEBR)ebr10608344(CaONFJC)MIL513116(EXLCZ)99267000000025922620120317d2012 uy 0engurun#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDistilling the influence of alcohol[electronic resource] aguardiente in Guatemalan history /edited by David Carey ; foreword by William B. TaylorGainesville University Press of Floridac20121 online resource (227 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8130-4162-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Consumption, custom, and control: aguardiente in nineteenth-century Maya Guatemala / Stacey Schwartzkopf -- From household to nation: the economic and political impact of women and alcohol in nineteenth-century Guatemala / Rene Reeves -- A sponge soaking up all the money?: alcohol, taverns, vinaterías, and the bourbon reforms in mid-eighteenth-century Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala / Alvis E. Dunn -- Alcohol and lowdown culture in Caribbean Guatemala and Honduras, 1898-1922 / Frederick Douglass Opie -- Distilling perceptions of crime: Maya moonshiners and the Guatemalan state, 1898-1944 / David Carey -- Conclusion: community drunkenness and control in Guatemala / Virginia Garrard-Burnett.Sugar, coffee, corn, and chocolate have long dominated the study of Central American commerce, and researchers tend to overlook one other equally significant commodity: alcohol. Often illicitly produced and consumed, aguardiente (distilled sugar cane spirits or rum) was central to Guatemalan daily life, though scholars have often neglected its fundamental role in the country's development. Throughout world history, alcohol has helped build family livelihoods, boost local economies, and forge nations. The alcohol economy also helped shape Guatemala's turbulent categories of ethnicity,Drinking of alcoholic beveragesGuatemalaHistoryAlcoholic beveragesGuatemalaHistoryAlcoholismGuatemalaHistoryGuatemalaSocial conditionsGuatemalaHistoryDrinking of alcoholic beveragesHistory.Alcoholic beveragesHistory.AlcoholismHistory.363.4/1097281Carey David1475028Taylor William B876407MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786000103321Distilling the influence of alcohol3715157UNINA