Historical Dictionary of Guatemala (eBook)

Michael F. Fry (Autor)

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2018
472 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1131-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Guatemala holds a dual image. For more than a century, travel writers, explorers, and movie producers have painted the country 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 wistful, dreamy aura of bygone days of pagan splendor, and the unique colorful textiles of rural Maya today connect nostalgically with that distant past. Inspired by that vision, fascinated tourists have flocked there for the past six decades. Most have not been disappointed; it is a genuine facet of a complex land. Guatemala is also portrayed as a poor, violent, repressive country ruled by greedy tyrants with the support of an entrenched elite-the archetypal banana republic. The media and scholarly studies consistently confirm that fair assessment of the social, political, and economic reality. The Historical Dictionary of Guatemala contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Guatemala.

Autor

Michael F. Fry is professor of Latin American history at Fort Lewis College, Colorado’s public liberal arts college in Durango, where he teaches an array of courses on Latin America, including the history of Central America. He has lived and conducted archival research in Guatemala during three extended sojourns there, the longest for three years, and he has made many shorter research trips.

Inhalt

Editor’s ForewordAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYBibliographyAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.2.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Historical Dictionaries of the Americas
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Bananas • Central America • Coffee • Colonialism • ConQuest • death squads • Dictatorship • Guatemala • Guerrillas • Maya
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-1131-4 / 1538111314
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-1131-4 / 9781538111314