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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of Lovell's classic account of the violence that has wracked Guatemala, from its roots in the colonial past to its aftermath in the twenty-first century Zusammenfassung A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of Lovell's classic account of the violence that has wracked Guatemala! from its roots in the colonial past to its aftermath in the twenty-first century Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part One: Struggle and Survival 1. Q'anjob'al Canadian; 2. Nobel K'iche'; 3. Jakaltek American; 4. Dona Magdalena; 5. Through a Lens! Darkly; 6. Devils and Angels Part Two: Blood and Ink 7. 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 Maya 18. The Colonial Experience; 19. The Century after Independence; 20. Arbenz and the Fruit Company; 21. The T-Shirt Parade; 22. Natives in the Backcountry Epilogue; A Guatemalan Gallery; Sources and Commentary
