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Distilling the Influence of Alcohol : Aguardiente in Guatemalan History /

Sugar, coffee, corn, and chocolate have long dominated the study of Central American commerce, and researchers tend to overlook one other equally significant commodity: alcohol. Often illicitly produced and consumed, aguardiente (distilled sugar cane spirits or rum) was central to Guatemalan daily l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Taylor, William B., Carey, David, Jr., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Consumption, custom, and control: aguardiente in nineteenth-century Maya Guatemala / Stacey Schwartzkopf -- From household to nation: the economic and political impact of women and alcohol in nineteenth-century Guatemala / Rene Reeves -- A sponge soaking up all the money?: alcohol, taverns, vinaterías, and the bourbon reforms in mid-eighteenth-century Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala / Alvis E. Dunn -- Alcohol and lowdown culture in Caribbean Guatemala and Honduras, 1898-1922 / Frederick Douglass Opie -- Distilling perceptions of crime: Maya moonshiners and the Guatemalan state, 1898-1944 / David Carey -- Conclusion: community drunkenness and control in Guatemala / Virginia Garrard-Burnett. 
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