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Author Gibbings, Julie, author

Title Our time is now : race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala / Julie Gibbings, University of Edinburgh
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Series Cambridge Latin American studies ; 120
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 120
Contents Introduction: History will write our names -- Part I: Translating modernities. To live without king or castle: Maya patriarchal liberalism on the eve of a new era, 1860-1871 -- Possessing sentiments and ideas of progress: coffee planting, land privatization, and the liberal reform, 1871-1886 -- Indolence is the death of character: the making of race and labor, 1886-1898 -- El Q'eq roams at night: plantation sovereignty and racial capitalism, 1898-1914 -- Part II: Aspirations and anxieties of unfulfilled modernities. On the throne of Minerva: the making of urban modernities, 1908-1920 -- Freedom of the Indian: Maya rights and citizenship in a democratic experiment, 1920-1931 -- Possessing Tezulutlán: splitting national time in dictatorship, 1931-1939 -- Now owners of our land: nationalism, history, and memory in revolution, 1939-1954 -- Conclusion
Summary "This book tells the story of a Maya frontier in Alta Verapaz at the heart of Guatemalan national elites' dreams for building a modern nation based on coffee production and German immigration in the late nineteenth century, which ultimately became the center of anti-German revolutionary nationalism in the 1940s and 1950s. While charting these shifting elite efforts to define and create modernity, this book highlights how Mayas sought to carve out other modernities based on a blend of Maya cosmologies and radical liberalism. This work illustrates how state officials and non-Maya coffee planters disavowed these alternative projects. Our Time is Now thus focuses on the potency of historical time in the making of modernity and race as well as the limits of writing disenchanted history. Bridging the fields of subaltern and new capitalism studies, this book highlights the centrality of race and indigenous coerced labor in the formation of capitalism and demonstrates the legacy of nineteenth-century political and economic struggles in Guatemala's bloody civil war"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- Politics and government
Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Government relations
Kekchi Indians -- Land tenure -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz
Germans -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- History
Nationalism -- Guatemala -- History
Postcolonialism -- Guatemala -- History
Economic history
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Germans
Kekchi Indians -- Government relations
Kekchi Indians -- Land tenure
Nationalism
Postcolonialism
War -- Causes
Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Ethnic relations -- History
Guatemala -- History -- Revolution, 1954 -- Causes
Coffee plantations -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- History
Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Economic conditions
Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Emigration and immigration
Guatemala
Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Frontlist 2020
ISBN 9781108774048
1108774040
Other Titles Race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala