Distilling the influence of alcohol : aguardiente in Guatemalan history / edited by David Carey ; foreword by William B. Taylor.
Material type: TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Guatemala -- History
- Alcoholic beverages -- Guatemala -- History
- Guatemala -- Social conditions
- Alcoholism -- Guatemala -- History
- Guatemala -- History
- Consommation d'alcool -- Guatemala -- Histoire
- Boissons alcoolisées -- Guatemala -- Histoire
- Alcoolisme -- Guatemala -- Histoire
- Guatemala -- Histoire
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- HISTORY -- Latin America -- General
- Alcoholic beverages
- Alcoholism
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages
- Social conditions
- Guatemala
- 363.4/1097281 23
- HV5329 .D57 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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 life, though scholars have often neglected its fundamental role in the country's development. Throughout world history, alcohol has helped build family livelihoods, boost local economies, and forge nations. The alcohol economy also helped shape Guatemala's turbulent categories of ethnicity, race, c.
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