Distilling the influence of alcohol [[electronic resource] ] : aguardiente in Guatemalan history / / edited by David Carey ; foreword by William B. Taylor

• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.4/1097281
• Soggetto topico: Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Guatemala - History; Alcoholic beverages - Guatemala - History; Alcoholism - Guatemala - History
• Soggetto geografico: Guatemala Social conditions; Guatemala History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CareyDavid TaylorWilliam B
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Distilling the influence of alcohol
• ISBN: 0-8130-4343-3; 0-8130-4252-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461948203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II