Author: Ramón L. Acevedo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Landívar, Arévalo Martínez Y Los Alemanes
Author: Ramón L. Acevedo
Publisher:
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Last Colonial Massacre
Author: Greg Grandin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226306909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the region. With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy—one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal—and that the conflict’s main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social democracy. Updated with a new preface by the author and an interview with Naomi Klein, The Last Colonial Massacre is history of the highest order—a work that will dramatically recast our understanding of Latin American politics and the role of the United States in the Cold War and beyond. “This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century.”—International History Review “A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state.”—Journal of American History
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226306909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the region. With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy—one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal—and that the conflict’s main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social democracy. Updated with a new preface by the author and an interview with Naomi Klein, The Last Colonial Massacre is history of the highest order—a work that will dramatically recast our understanding of Latin American politics and the role of the United States in the Cold War and beyond. “This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century.”—International History Review “A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state.”—Journal of American History
The Guatemala Reader
Author: Greg Grandin
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
DIVAn interdisciplinary anthology on the largest, most populous nation in Central America, covering Guatemalan history, culture, literature and politics and containing many primary sources not previously published in English./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822351072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
DIVAn interdisciplinary anthology on the largest, most populous nation in Central America, covering Guatemalan history, culture, literature and politics and containing many primary sources not previously published in English./div
Time Commences in Xibalbá
Author: Luis de Lión
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816599467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Time Commences in Xibalbá tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes back, he is changed—both scarred and “enlightened” by his experiences. To his eyes, the village has remained frozen in time. After experiencing alternative cultures in the wider world, he finds that he is both comforted and disgusted by the village’s lingering “indigenous” characteristics.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816599467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Time Commences in Xibalbá tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes back, he is changed—both scarred and “enlightened” by his experiences. To his eyes, the village has remained frozen in time. After experiencing alternative cultures in the wider world, he finds that he is both comforted and disgusted by the village’s lingering “indigenous” characteristics.
Cancer Registries Amendment Act
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Breast
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breast
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The SEER Program
Author: SEER Program (National Cancer Institute (U.S.))
Publisher:
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Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773
Author: Christopher H. Lutz
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment in 1541 until the earthquakes of 1773. Christopher H. Lutz traces the demographic and social history of the city during this period, focusing on the rise of groups of mixed descent. During these two centuries the city evolved from a segmented society of Indians, Spaniards, and African slaves to an increasingly mixed population as the formerly all-Indian barrios became home to a large intermediate group of ladinos. The history of the evolution of a multiethnic society in Santiago also sheds light on the present-day struggle of Guatemalan ladinos and Indians and the problems that continue to divide the country today.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment in 1541 until the earthquakes of 1773. Christopher H. Lutz traces the demographic and social history of the city during this period, focusing on the rise of groups of mixed descent. During these two centuries the city evolved from a segmented society of Indians, Spaniards, and African slaves to an increasingly mixed population as the formerly all-Indian barrios became home to a large intermediate group of ladinos. The history of the evolution of a multiethnic society in Santiago also sheds light on the present-day struggle of Guatemalan ladinos and Indians and the problems that continue to divide the country today.
Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821–1871
Author: Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) ruled Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. Among Central America’s many political strongmen, he is unrivaled in the length of his domination and the depth of his popularity. This “life and times” biography explains the political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that preceded and then facilitated Carrera’s ascendancy and shows how Carrera in turn fomented changes that persisted long after his death and far beyond the borders of Guatemala.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) ruled Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. Among Central America’s many political strongmen, he is unrivaled in the length of his domination and the depth of his popularity. This “life and times” biography explains the political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that preceded and then facilitated Carrera’s ascendancy and shows how Carrera in turn fomented changes that persisted long after his death and far beyond the borders of Guatemala.
Tejiendo Los Sucesos en El Tiempo
Author: Calixta Gabriel Xiquín
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"Speaker of the Kaqchikel Maya, the author was born in the hamlet of Hacienda Vieja in the Department of Chimaltenango. During the civil war three of her brothers were kidnapped and murdered, and she was forced to take refuge in the United States, where she stayed from 1981 to 1988. In 2000 she received the degree of Licentiate in Social Work from Universidad Rafael Landívar, with a thesis on the social function of Kaqchikel Maya spiritual guides ... In Weaving Events in Time, Ms Gabriel, who has also written under the name Caly Domitila Kanek, raises her voice to heaven and earth to demand respect for the rights of the Maya, in the light of her personal suffering and that of an entire people. Serious, lyrical, evocative, her poetry stimulates the imagination so that we may never forget what happened in the recent history of Guatemala." -- Back cover.
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"Speaker of the Kaqchikel Maya, the author was born in the hamlet of Hacienda Vieja in the Department of Chimaltenango. During the civil war three of her brothers were kidnapped and murdered, and she was forced to take refuge in the United States, where she stayed from 1981 to 1988. In 2000 she received the degree of Licentiate in Social Work from Universidad Rafael Landívar, with a thesis on the social function of Kaqchikel Maya spiritual guides ... In Weaving Events in Time, Ms Gabriel, who has also written under the name Caly Domitila Kanek, raises her voice to heaven and earth to demand respect for the rights of the Maya, in the light of her personal suffering and that of an entire people. Serious, lyrical, evocative, her poetry stimulates the imagination so that we may never forget what happened in the recent history of Guatemala." -- Back cover.
Power in the Isthmus
Author: James Dunkerley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Annotation Country-by-country studies of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica as well as a wealth of charts, statistics and chronologies. Dunkerly teaches political studies at Queen Mary College, London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Annotation Country-by-country studies of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica as well as a wealth of charts, statistics and chronologies. Dunkerly teaches political studies at Queen Mary College, London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.