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War by other means : aftermath in post-genocide Guatemala / edited by Carlota McAllister and Diane M. Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Guatemala.
- Violence.
- Guatemala--History--1985-.
- Guatemala.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (403 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this collection of essays, leading scholars based throughout the Americas examine postwar Guatemalan society from varied perspectives, including those of ethnography, history, geography, politics, and economics.
- Contents:
- Five hundred years / Greg Grandin
- Difficult complementarity : relations between the Mayan and revolutionary movements / Santiago Bastos and Manuela Camus
- Testimonial truths and revolutionary mysteries / Carlota McAllister
- Development and/as dispossession : elite networks and extractive industry in the Franja Transversal del Norte / Luis Solano
- "We're no longer dealing with fools" : violence, labor, and governance on the south coast / Elizabeth Oglesby
- "A dignified community where we can live" : violence, law, and debt in Nueva Cajolá's struggle for land / Irmalicia Velásquez Nimatuj
- What happened to the revolution? : Guatemala City's maras from life to death / Deborah T. Levenson
- The long war in Colotenango: guerrillas, army, and civil patrols / Paul Kobrak
- After lynching / Jennifer Burrell
- Labor contractors to military specialists to development experts : marginal elites and postwar state formation / Matilde González Izás
- 100 percent omnilife : health, economy, and the end/s of war / Diane M. Nelson
- The shumo challenge: white class privilege and the post-race, post-genocide alliances of cosmopolitanism from below / Jorge Ramón González Ponciano
- A generation after the refugees' return : are we there yet? / Paula Worby.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355090
- 0822355094
- 9780822377405
- 0822377403
- OCLC:
- 1143278833
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