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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
©2012.
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Table des matières:
- 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.