The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise)

The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise)
Greg Grandin (Author)
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Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century state formation rather than in the ruins of the national project of recent decades.
Focusing on Mayan elites in the community of Quetzaltenango, Grandin shows how their efforts to maintain authority over the indigenous population and secure political power in relation to non-Indians played a crucial role in the formation of the Guatemalan nation. To explore the close connection between nationalism, state power, ethnic identity, and political violence, Grandin draws on sources as diverse as photographs, public rituals, oral testimony, literature, and a collection of previously untapped documents written during the nineteenth century. He explains how the cultural anxiety brought about by Guatemala’s transition to coffee capitalism during this period led Mayan patriarchs to develop understandings of race and nation that were contrary to Ladino notions of assimilation and progress. This alternative national vision, however, could not take hold in a country plagued by class and ethnic divisions. In the years prior to the 1954 coup, class conflict became impossible to contain as the elites violently opposed land claims made by indigenous peasants.
This “history of power” reconsiders the way scholars understand the history of Guatemala and will be relevant to those studying nation building and indigenous communities across Latin America.

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• Published on: 2000-03-15
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.06" w x 6.14" l, 1.39 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South

The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
by Leon Fink
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The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization. When laborers' concerns about safety and fairness spark a strike and, ultimately, a unionizing campaign at Case Farms, the resulting decade-long standoff pits a recalcitrant New South employer against an unlikely coalition of antagonists. Mayan refugees from war-torn Guatemala, Mexican workers, and a diverse group of local allies join forces with the Laborers union. The ensuing clash becomes a testing ground for "new labor" workplace and legal strategies. In the process, the nation's fastest-growing immigrant region encounters a new struggle for social justice.

Using scores of interviews, Leon Fink gives voice to a remarkably resilient people. He shows that, paradoxically, what sustains these global travelers are the ties of local community. Whether one is finding a job, going to church, joining a soccer team, or building a union, kin and linguistic connections to the place of one's birth prove crucial in negotiating today's global marketplace.

A story set at the intersection of globalization and community, two words not often linked, The Maya of Morganton addresses fundamental questions about the changing face of labor in the United States.

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• Published on: 2003-04-21
• Released on: 2007-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x .67" w x 6.14" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries)

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How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs (Hippocrene Practical Dictionaries)
John Montgomery (Author)
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This comprehensive guide to deciphering Maya hieroglyphs contains a complete outline of the writing, presenting individual signs and their meanings, the script's grammatical structure and content, and explanations of the sophisticated Maya calendrical and mathematical systems.

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• Published on: 2004-01-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .75" w x 5.98" l, 1.12 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 378 pages

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas: Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Third Edition (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas: Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador, Third Edition (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)
Ernest Preston Edwards (Author), Edward Murrell Butler (Illustrator)
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More than a thousand species of birds occur in Mexico and in the adjacent countries of Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Of these birds, a unique mixture of temperate-zone and tropical species, less than half are found in the United States, and many cross the border only a short distance into the southwestern states.

This practical field guide contains detailed annotations for easy identification of all of Mexico's regular species. The descriptions include the English, Spanish, and Latin names; a general range statement for each bird, along with its specific occurrences in the region; its typical habitat(s) and abundance; and its physical characteristics, including size and plumage. Excellent color plates with drawings of over 850 species make this the most fully illustrated guide to the region.

Published by the author in 1972 and 1989, this convenient take-along guide is now totally revised, updated, and re-designed to provide handy assistance and enjoyment to professional ornithologists and amateur birders alike.

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• Published on: 1998
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.84" h x .83" w x 5.83" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 285 pages

Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past 1875-1970

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Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past 1875-1970
Jr., David Carey (Author)
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Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous perspectives of the past.

Drawing on years of research among the Maya that specifically documents women's oral histories, Carey gives Mayan women a platform to discuss their views on education, migrant labor, work in the home, female leadership, and globalization. These oral histories present an ideal opportunity to understand indigenous women's approach to history, the apparent contradictions in gender roles in Mayan communities, and provide a distinct conceptual framework for analyzing Guatamalan, Mayan, and Latin American history.

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• Published on: 2013-01-11
• Released on: 2013-01-11
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The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period

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The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period
by Francisco Estrada-Belli
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When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in Prehispanic America, while others such as Cival showed even earlier evidence of complex rituals. The reality of this Preclassic Maya civilization has been documented by scholars over the past three decades: what had been seen as an age of simple village farming, belatedly responding to the stimulus of more advanced peoples in highland Mesoamerica, is now know to have been the period when the Maya made themselves into one of the New World's most innovative societies. This book discusses the most recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and epigraphy supporting a contemporary theoretical perspective that challenges prior assumptions.

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• Published on: 2010-12-22
• Original language: English
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• 192 pages

Secret History, Second Edition: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954

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Secret History, Second Edition: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954
Nick Cullather (Author)
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The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early example of “regime change” that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its mistakes were becoming clear. Since 1999, a number of documents relating to the CIA’s activities in Guatemala have been declassified, and a truth and reconciliation process has unearthed other reports, speeches, and writings that shed more light on the role of the United States. For this edition, the author has selected and annotated twenty-one documents for a new documentary Appendix, including President Clinton’s apology to the people of Guatemala.

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• Published on: 2006-10-09
• Released on: 2006-10-09
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Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope (California Series in Public Anthropology)

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Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope (California Series in Public Anthropology)
by Beatriz Manz, Aryeh Neier
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Indigenous Movements and Their Critics

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Indigenous Movements and Their Critics
by Kay B. Warren
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In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants. Challenging the belief that indigenous movements emerge as isolated, politically unified fronts, she shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. She explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority and also examines the movement's many domestic and foreign critics.

The book focuses on the years of Guatemala's peace process (1987--1996). After the previous ten years of national war and state repression, the Maya movement reemerged into public view to press for institutional reform in the schools and courts and for the officialization of a "multicultural, ethnically plural, and multilingual" national culture. In particular, Warren examines a group of well-known Mayanist antiracism activists--among them, Demetrio Cojt!, Mart!n Chacach, Enrique Sam Colop, Victor Montejo, members of Oxlajuuj Keej Maya' Ajtz'iib', and grassroots intellectuals in the community of San Andr s--to show what is at stake for them personally and how they have worked to promote the revitalization of Maya language and culture. Pan-Mayanism's critics question its tactics, see it as threatening their own achievements, or even as dangerously polarizing national society. This book highlights the crucial role that Mayanist intellectuals have come to play in charting paths to multicultural democracy in Guatemala and in creating a new parallel middle class.

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• Published on: 1998-12-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .83" w x 5.98" l, 1.07 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, H)

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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American Studies, H)
by Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, Richard A. Nuccio
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Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.

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• Published on: 2005-12-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.94" h x .94" w x 7.09" l, 1.39 pounds
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• 358 pages

Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954

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Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
by Piero Gleijeses
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The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations. . . . [Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal

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• Published on: 1992-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.13" h x 1.18" w x 6.30" l, 1.48 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

A Field Guide to Mexican Birds: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador (Peterson Field Guides)

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A Field Guide to Mexican Birds: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador (Peterson Field Guides)
by Roger Tory Peterson
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With more than 700 color paintings arranged by families for quick comparison of similar species, and with detailed information on range, habitat, size, and voice, this field guide describes and illustrates 1,038 species of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador.

• Rank: #557353 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.06" h x .87" w x 4.49" l, 1.12 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition

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The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition
by Greg Grandin, Naomi Klein
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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

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• Published on: 2011-07-30
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: .75" h x 6.09" w x 9.01" l, 1.05 pounds
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• 336 pages

Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village

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Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village
by Victor Montejo, Victor Perera
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TESTIMONY: DEATH OF A GUATEMALAN VILLAGE is an eyewitness account by a Guatemalan primary school teacher detailing one instance of violent conflict between the indigenous Maya people and the army. An accidental clash between the village's "civil patrol" and a Guatemalan army troop leads to the execution or imprisonment of many villagers. Written in clear, direct prose, this account reads like an adventure story while conveying an historical reality.

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• Published on: 1995-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .40" h x 5.35" w x 8.44" l, .36 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 113 pages

Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985

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Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985
by Deborah Levenson-Estrada
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Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. In Trade Unionists against Terror, she explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms of violent opposition from the state.

Levenson-Estrada focuses especially on the case of 400 workers at the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City, who, in order to protect their union, successfully occupied the factory for over a year beginning in 1984 while the country was under a state of siege. According to Levenson-Estrada, religion provided the language of resistance, and workers who were engaged in what seemed to be a dead-end battle constructed an identity for themselves as powerful agents of change. Based on oral histories as well as documentary sources, Trade Unionists against Terror also illuminates complex relationships between urban popular culture, gender, family, and workplace activism in Guatemala.

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• Published on: 1994-05-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .83" w x 5.98" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 303 pages

Kaleidoskop Mittelamerika / Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama / Reportagen und Informationen (German Edition)

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Kaleidoskop Mittelamerika / Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama / Reportagen und Informationen (German Edition)
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Überrollt von der Globalisierung und einer raschen Umgestaltung der politischen Weltkarte ist Mittelamerika weitgehend aus den deutschen Medien verschwunden. Doch das bunte Mosaik der Kulturen ist bestehen geblieben. Diese kulturelle Vielfalt zeichnet der Autor in vierzehn Reportagen nach. Er läßt Menschen zu Wort kommen, die sich sonst nur selten Gehör verschaffen können, Minderheiten ihrer Gesellschaften: Kinder und Kranke, Frauen und Farbige, Homosexuelle und Habenichtse, Maya und Mennoniten. Außerdem behandelt er die Geschichte der sieben Länder und stellt zahlreiche deutsche Organisationen vor, die Projekte unterstützen oder Informationsarbeit leisten.

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• Published on: 2012-12-19
• Released on: 2012-12-19
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Rigoberta Menchu, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Ann Wright
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This book recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Guatemalan peasant woman.

Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechist work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. The anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, herself a Latin American woman, conducted a series of interviews with Rigoberta Menchu. The result is a book unique in contemporary literature which records the detail of everyday Indian life. Rigoberta's gift for striking expression vividly conveys both the religious and superstitious beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.

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• Published on: 1984-06
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x .59" w x 6.14" l, 1.01 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages