Description |
1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
"Like sturdy little animals" : making the modern anti-modern, 1920s-1944 -- Chaos and rationality : the dialectic of the Guatemalan ghetto -- Oficios de su sexo : gender, the informal economy, and anticommunist development -- Making the immoral metropolis : infrastructure, economics and war -- Executing capital : green revolution, genocide, and the transition to neoliberalism -- A society of vendors : contradictions and everyday life in the Guatemalan market -- Cuatro gramos norte : fragmentation and concentration in the wake of victory |
Summary |
This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-275, 278-299) and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record |
Subject |
Economic development -- Social aspects -- Guatemala
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Globalization -- Social aspects -- Guatemala
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Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Guatemala
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Economic development -- Social aspects.
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Economic history.
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Globalization -- Economic aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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SUBJECT |
Guatemala -- Economic conditions -- 1985-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003223
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Subject |
Guatemala.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822394785 |
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0822394782 |
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