For more than a century, travel writers, explorers, and movie producers have painted Guatemala as an exotic place, a land of tropical forests and the home of the ancient and living Maya. Archaeological ruins, abandoned a millennium ago, have enhanced their depictions with a wist…
The Maya : before the Europeans -- Invasion and colonialism -- A caffeinated modernism -- Ten years of spring and beyond -- Roads to revolution -- Intent to destroy -- An unsettled peace -- Maya movements -- The sixth century.
"This Reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and viole…
The Maya : before the Europeans -- Invasion and colonialism -- A caffeinated modernism -- Ten years of spring and beyond -- Roads to revolution -- Intent to destroy -- An unsettled peace -- Maya movements -- The sixth century.
An 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.
An 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. "This Reader brings together more than 200 texts and im…
This Reader brings together more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala's history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violen…
