Author: Grandin, Greg
Title: The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, 2000. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xviii,343 pp.. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Searching for the Living Among the Dead; Prelude: A World Put Right, 31 March 1840; The Greatest Indian City in the World: Caste, Gender, & Politics, 1750-1821; Defending the Pueblo: Popular Protests & Elite Politics, 1786-1826; A Pestilent Nationalism: The 1837 Cholera Epidemic Reconsidered; A House with Two Masters: Carrera & the Restored Republic of Indians; Principales to Patrones, Macehuales to Mozos:Land, Labor, & the Commodification of Community; Regerating the Race: Race, Class, & the Nationalization of Ethnicity; Time & Space Among the Maya: Mayan Modernism & the Transformation of the City; The Blood of Guatemalans: Class Struggle & the Death of K'iche' Nationalism; Conclusions: The Limits of Nation, 1954-1999; Epilogue; The Living Among the Dead; Appendices.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Colonial Guatemala, Central America, Ethnography Indians, Political History, Anthropology Ethnic, Spanish Colonialism, Quicha K'iche' Race, Quiche Ethnicity