Distilling the influence of alcohol
Subtitle: aguardiente in Guatemalan history
By: edited by David Carey ; foreword by William B. Taylor
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780813041629
Subjects: Social conditions; History; Alcoholism; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Alcoholic beverages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Consumption, custom, and control: aguardiente in nineteenth-century Maya Guatemala / Stacey Schwartzkopf; title: From household to nation: the economic and political impact of women and alcohol in nineteenth-century Guatemala / Rene Reeves; title: 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; title: Alcohol and lowdown culture in Caribbean Guatemala and Honduras, 1898-1922 / Frederick Douglass Opie; title: Distilling perceptions of crime: Maya moonshiners and the Guatemalan state, 1898-1944 / David Carey; title: Conclusion: community drunkenness and control in Guatemala / Virginia Garrard-Burnett.