Guatemala: Impreso en la tipografía nacional, 1899. — xvi, 248 p. Preliminares. Primer periodo. Epoca prehistorica. Epoca historica. Segundo periodo. Gobernantes del Reino de Guatemala. Tercer periodo. Cuarto periodo. Apendice.
De Gruyter, 2014. — 437 p. Two unprecedented, striking developments form part of the reality of many Latin Americans. Recent decades have seen the dramatic rise of a new religious pluralism, namely the spread of Pentecostal Christianity - Catholic and Protestant alike - and the growth of indigenous revitalization movements. This study analyzes these major transitions, asking what...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 249 p. This book rigorously documents and explains the genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan state against indigenous Maya populations within the context of its counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas between 1981 and 1983. In doing so it brings to light a genocide that has remained largely invisible within both academic disciplines and...
University of Texas Press, 2014. — 235 p. Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipality of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, inhabited by a predominantly indigenous...
Reimpresa para el Museo Guatemalteco. — Guatemala: Imprenta La Luna, 1858. — 56 p. Ya en el siglo XVIII, el teólogo dominico Fray Felipe de la Cadena hizo pública una Breve descripción de la noble ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala y puntual noticia de su lamentable ruina ocasionada de un violento terremoto el día veinte y nueve de julio de mil setecientos setenta y...
Westview Press, 1985. — 239 p. Guatemala has long been a field for struggle between other powers, and today, racked by civil war, it avoids the full glare of international attention only because most of the Central American region is beset by similar problems. Despite a continued belief in the reconstitution of a unified Central American state arid a long-running claim to...
Routledge, 2013. — 344 p. Presenting Mayan history from the perspective of Mayan women--whose voices until now have not been documented--David Carey allows these women to present their worldviews in their native language, adding a rich layer to recent Latin American historiography, and increasing our comprehension of indigenous perspectives of the past. Drawing on years of...
University of Texas Press, 2014. — 363 p. Given Guatemala’s record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances and an important tool for...
Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1994. — xiv, 166 p. — ISBN: 087081317X, 9780870813177. This study focuses on the Guatemalan political scene during the period between the conservative dictatorship of Rafael Carrera and the liberal dictatorship of Justo Rufino Barrios. The author seeks to demonstrate that a gradual transition occurred during these years, which he...
Routledge, 2021. — 215 p. Between 1975 and 1982 the Guatemalan military systematically and sadistically punished the "campesino" population for the activities of guerrilleros in their region. This account by Ricardo Falla, an anthropologist and Jesuit priest who is himself a Guatemalan exile, shows how the victims and their communities were destroyed and provides a detailed...
Revised Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. — 470 p. 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.
Revised Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. — 470 p. The Historical Dictionary of Guatemala contains a detailed 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.
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 345 p. This is the account of a series of enterprises undertaken in Guatemala during the 1830s in an attempt to draw immigrants and capital from Europe to continue the subjugation of the vast unpeopled wastes. It is a record of failure, but a failure--like many others--from which much is to be learned.
Westview Press, 1991. — 310 p. A contemporary history of Guatemala's thirty-year civil war—the longest and bloodiest in the hemisphere—this book pulls aside the veil of secrecy that has obscured the origins of the war. Using a structural analysis that takes critical events and changes in the nation's economic and social structure as a starting point for understanding its...
Monograph. — Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. — 2nd revised ed. — (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies). — ISBN: 0292721838, 9780292721838. Though a 1996 peace accord brought a formal end to a conflict that had lasted for thirty-six years, Guatemala's violent past continues to scar its troubled present and seems destined to haunt its uncertain...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. — 354 p. Exposes the colonial roots of problems at the heart of Guatemala's ongoing political crises George Lovell's classic work, based primarily on unpublished archival sources, examines the impact of Spanish rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, an isolated region of Guatemala running along the country's north-western border with Mexico....
Revised Edition. — Scarecrow Press, 1973. — 285 p. 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...
University of Alabama Press, 2007. — 220 p. Christian evangelicals among native people in Latin America.What does it mean to be both Maya and Protestant in Guatemala? Burgeoning religious pluralism in Mesoamerica and throughout Latin America is evident as Protestantism permeates a region that had been overwhelmingly Catholic for nearly five centuries.In considering the...
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2005. — 330 p.
Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 295 p. A true story of violence, punishment, and a transformative moment in Guatemalan history that “deftly ranges across Italian iconography, Maya cosmovision, casta paintings, Enlightenment urbanism, conceptions of death, masculinity, gender violence, crime and punishment, and the growth of the state. On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor...
Составление и перевод с испанского Н.А. Булгаковой, Ю.В. Погосова. Перевод вводной статьи В.В. Алексеева. — М.: Прогресс, 1979. — 248 с. Книга Генерального секретаря ЦК Гватемальской партии труда Уберто Альварадо Арельяно ’’Раздумья” составлена из ряда произведений автора, написанных в 50—70-е годы. В сборник вошли все главы книги ’’Заметки по истории Гватемальской партии...
Составление и перевод с испанского Н.А. Булгаковой, Ю.В. Погосова. Перевод вводной статьи В.В. Алексеева. — М.: Прогресс, 1979. — 248 с. Книга Генерального секретаря ЦК Гватемальской партии труда Уберто Альварадо Арельяно ’’Раздумья” составлена из ряда произведений автора, написанных в 50—70-е годы. В сборник вошли все главы книги ’’Заметки по истории Гватемальской партии...
М.: Мысль, 1988. — 203 [5] с.: ил., карт. Гватемала — единственная страна Центральной Америки, в которой преобладает индейское население. Своеобразная природа с обилием действующих вулканов, живописных озер и стремительных горных рек делает Гватемалу одной из красивейших стран на Земле. Свыше 30 лет нес гватемальский народ тяжкие оковы диктаторского режима, применявшего против...
Москва: Прогресс, 1983. — 252 с. Гильермо Ториэльо Гарридо — известный гватемальский историк и дипломат. В 1956 году в Советском Союзе на русском языке была издана его первая работа «Битва за Гватемалу», посвященная революционному процессу в Гватемале в 1944—1954 годах. В результате подрывных действий реакции и прямого вооруженного вторжения США в эту страну был свергнут...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1956. — 300 с.
Книга «Битва за Гватемалу» написана Гильермо Ториэльо — бывшим министром иностранных дел в демократическом Правительстве Арбенса, свергнутого в результате вооруженной агрессии, организованной американскими монополиями. Книга Ториэльо ставит своей целью рассказать правду об освободительной демократической борьбе...
М.: Государственное издательство географической литературы, 1958. — 368 с., 48 ил.
Известный чешский писатель Норберт Фрид живо и непосредственно рассказывает о своем путешествии в Гватемалу в 1949 и 1950 гг. Наряду с путевыми впечатлениями автор сообщает интересные сведения об истории и хозяйстве страны, искусстве, быте и нравах ее народа. Н. Фрид с большой теплотой и участием...
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