Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Cambridge Latin American studies ; 120 |
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Cambridge Latin American studies ; 120
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- Politics and government
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Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Government relations
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Kekchi Indians -- Land tenure -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz
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Germans -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- History
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Nationalism -- Guatemala -- History
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Postcolonialism -- Guatemala -- History
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Economic history
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Emigration and immigration
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Ethnic relations
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Germans
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Kekchi Indians -- Government relations
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Kekchi Indians -- Land tenure
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Nationalism
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Postcolonialism
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War -- Causes
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Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Ethnic relations -- History
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Guatemala -- History -- Revolution, 1954 -- Causes
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Coffee plantations -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- History
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Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Economic conditions
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Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Emigration and immigration
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Guatemala
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Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge Frontlist 2020
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ISBN |
9781108774048 |
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1108774040 |
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