A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
Autor W. George Lovellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292721838
ISBN-10: 0292721838
Pagini: 206
Ilustrații: 26 photographs, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of Texas Press
Seria The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
ISBN-10: 0292721838
Pagini: 206
Ilustrații: 26 photographs, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 150 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of Texas Press
Seria The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
Cuprins
PrefacePart One: Struggle and Survival1. Q'anjob'al Canadian; 2. Nobel K'iche'; 3. Jakaltek American; 4. Doña Magdalena; 5. Through a Lens, Darkly; 6. Devils and AngelsPart Two: Blood and Ink7. The Delivery Man; 8. Into the Fire; 9. Peace of the Dead; 10. Futility at the Polls; 11. Civilian Rule; 12. A Militarized Society; 13. The Daily News; 14. The Fiction of Democracy; 15. Searching for Peace; 16. Scarred by War; 17. How Was Guatemala?Part Three: Spaniards, Ladinos, and the Enduring Maya18. The Colonial Experience; 19. The Century after Independence; 20. Arbenz and the Fruit Company; 21. The T-Shirt Parade; 22. Natives in the BackcountryEpilogue; A Guatemalan Gallery; Sources and Commentary
Notă biografică
W. GEORGE LOVELL is Professor of Geography at Queen¿s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He also teaches at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain, as Visiting Professor in Latin American History. To date, his ten book titles have appeared in seventeen different editions in Spanish as well as in English. Among his honors is the Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.
Descriere
A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of Lovells classic account of the violence that has wracked Guatemala, from its roots in the colonial past to its aftermath in the twenty-first century