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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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.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
Alcoholism.
Alcoholic beverages.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Alcoolisme > Guatemala > Histoire.
Boissons alcoolisees > Guatemala > Histoire.
Consommation d'alcool > Guatemala > Histoire.
Alcoholism > Guatemala > History.
Alcoholic beverages > Guatemala > History.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Guatemala > History.
Guatemala.
Guatemala > Histoire.
Guatemala > History.
Guatemala > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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