Distilling the influence of alcohol : aguardiente in Guatemalan history /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Carey, David, Jr., 1967-, Taylor, William B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
Subjects:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Guatemala > History.
Alcoholic beverages > Guatemala > History.
Alcoholism > Guatemala > History.
Consommation d'alcool > Guatemala > Histoire.
Boissons alcoolisées > Guatemala > Histoire.
Alcoolisme > Guatemala > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
Alcoholic beverages.
Alcoholism.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
Social conditions.
Guatemala > Social conditions.
Guatemala > History.
Guatemala > Histoire.
Guatemala.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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