Invención criolla, sueño ladino, pesadilla indígena
Subtitle: Los Altos de Guatemala : de región a Estado, 1740-1850
By: Arturo Taracena Arriola.
Publisher: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica; Porvenir
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Antigua, Guatemala; San José, Costa Rica
Language: spa
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: Quezaltenango (Guatemala) -- History.; Guatemala -- History.
Description: "Supported by rural small holders, creole and ladino elites of Quezaltenango, Guatemala, sought autonomy for western highlands, first as part of Mexico, then as independent state in Central American Federation. Attributes failure to elite's refusal to include indigenous majority in schemes, except as taxpayers and cheap labor"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.