The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation

by Greg Grandin

Latin America Otherwise (2000)

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A study of the political and cultural formation of one of Guatemala's indigenous communities that explores the nationalization of ethnicity, the preservation of Mayan identity, and the formation of a brutally repressive state.

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Greg Grandin is professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fail of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City and Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism, among other books.

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The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation
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Guatemala

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Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
972.81004History & geographyHistory of North AmericaMexico, Central America, West Indies, BermudaCentral AmericaGuatemala
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F1465.2 .Q5 .G73Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaLatin America. Spanish AmericaGuatemala
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