Our Time Is Now - Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Gibbings, Julie (University of Edinburgh) Gibbings, Gibbings Julie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781108733489
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73348-9
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Guatemala, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of the Americas