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Title:

Distilling the influence of alcohol : aguardiente in Guatemalan history / edited by David Carey ; foreword by William B. Taylor.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xi, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Guatemala--History.
Alcoholic beverages--Guatemala--History.
Guatemala--Social conditions.
Alcoholism--Guatemala--History.
Guatemala--History.

Other Authors:

Carey, David.
Taylor, William B.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0813041627 (alk. paper)
9780813041629 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)777602101

LCCN:

2012009808

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)