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from VII - LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Despite its age and limited attention to historical developments, Richard N. Adams, Crucifixion by Power: Essays on Guatemalan Social Structure, 1944–1966 (Austin, Tex., 1970) continues to occupy a central place in the literature on Guatemala in the twentieth century. A more recent narrative account of republican history is Jim Handy, Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala (Toronto, 1984), popular in style but with a full scholarly apparatus. The period up to the mid-1930s is covered in the engaging study by Chester Lloyd Jones, Guatemala Past and Present (Minneapolis, Minn., 1940). Providing full statistical material supported by a rather uneven text on the following two decades is Mario Monteforte Toledo, Guatemala: Monografía sociológica (Mexico, D.F., 1959), while Carlos Guzmán-Böckler and Jean-Loup Herbert, Guatemala: Una interpretación histórico-social (Mexico, D.F., 1970) is overwhelmingly analytical in perspective. Alfonso Bauer Paiz, Como opera el capital yanqui en Centroamérica: El caso de Guatemala (Mexico, D.F., 1956), and Thomas and Marjorie Melville, Guatemala: The Politics of Land Ownership (New York, 1971), are both polemical in style and secondary studies but do give cogent overviews of two important factors in twentieth-century society and economy.
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