LEADER 03370nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910786000103321 005 20230126205822.0 010 $a0-8130-4343-3 010 $a0-8130-4252-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000259226 035 $a(EBL)1035385 035 $a(OCoLC)812174501 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000722568 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11434247 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000722568 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10694769 035 $a(PQKB)11509613 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1035385 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1035385 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10608344 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL513116 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000259226 100 $a20120317d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDistilling the influence of alcohol$b[electronic resource] $eaguardiente in Guatemalan history /$fedited by David Carey ; foreword by William B. Taylor 210 $aGainesville $cUniversity Press of Florida$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (227 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8130-4162-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aConsumption, 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, vinateri?as, 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. 330 $aSugar, 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, 606 $aDrinking of alcoholic beverages$zGuatemala$xHistory 606 $aAlcoholic beverages$zGuatemala$xHistory 606 $aAlcoholism$zGuatemala$xHistory 607 $aGuatemala$xSocial conditions 607 $aGuatemala$xHistory 615 0$aDrinking of alcoholic beverages$xHistory. 615 0$aAlcoholic beverages$xHistory. 615 0$aAlcoholism$xHistory. 676 $a363.4/1097281 701 $aCarey$b David$01475028 701 $aTaylor$b William B$0876407 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786000103321 996 $aDistilling the influence of alcohol$93715157 997 $aUNINA