Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940 |
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| Author:
| McCreery, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-2318-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1994 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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This comprehensive study of rural development in Guatemala examines first the nature of rural society in the late colonial period and early decades of independence, and then details the massive and enduring changes caused by the spread of large-scale coffee production after the mid-nineteenth century.
This comprehensive study of rural development in Guatemala examines first the nature of rural society in the late colonial period and early decades of independence, and then details the massive and enduring changes caused by the spread of large-scale coffee production after the mid-nineteenth century.