A Short History of Guatemala
Publisher: Editorial Laura Lee
Published: 2008 (2d printing, corrected)
Place of publication: Antigua, Guatemala
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9789992279724
Description: "Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr. (Ph.D., Tulane University, 1962) briefly synthesizes the exciting history of Guatemala from its ancient Maya heritage to the present. Based on nearly a half-century of research on the history of this Central American republic, the work highlights the political, economic,and social evolution of Guatemala, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With keen insight into the struggle for economic and social development since national independence in 1821."--Amazon.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
title: The Land of the Maya
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: Europeanization
pagenum: 13; label: Chapter 3
title: Independence
pagenum: 35; label: Chapter 4
title: The United Provinces of Central America
pagenum: 55; label: Chapter 5
title: The Republic of Guatemala
pagenum: 75; label: Chapter 6
title: Liberal Guatemala
pagenum: 97; label: Chapter 7
title: The Ten Years of Spring
pagenum: 127; label: Chapter 8
title: The Thirty Years War
pagenum: 143; label: Chapter 9
title: Contemporary Guatemala
pagenum: 155; label: Appendix
title: Chiefs of State of Guatemala
pagenum: 169; label: Glossary
title: 175; label: Suggestions for Additional Reading
title: 179; label: Index
title: 187