Julie Gibbings (University of Edinburgh)

Our Time Is Now

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Merging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of modern politics, economics, and social norms was central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781108733489
• ISBN-10: 1108733484
• Artikelnr.: 63459460

Autorenporträt

Julie Gibbings is a Lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: History Will Write Our Names; I. Translating Modernities: 1. To Live without King or Castle: Maya Patriarchal Liberalism on the Eve of a New Era
1860-1871; 2. Possessing Sentiments and Ideas of Progress: Coffee Planting
Land Privatization
and Liberal Reform
1871-1885; 3. Indolence is the Death of Character: The Making of Race and Labor
1885-1898; 4. El Q'eq Roams at Night: Plantation Sovereignty and Racial Capitalism
1898-1914; II. Aspirations and Anxieties of Unfulfilled Modernities: 5. On the Throne of Minerva: The Making of Urban Modernities
1908-1920; 6. Freedom of the Indian: Maya Rights and Citizenship in a Democratic Experiment
1920-1932; 7. Possessing Tezulutlán: Splitting Time in Dictatorship
1931-1939; 8. Now Owners of Our Land: Nationalism
History
and Memory in Revolution
1939-1954.