"The Shadow of Slavery": Historical Time, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
In the midst of Guatemala's nineteenth-century coffee boom, a frost struck the department of Alta Verapaz, destroying coffee harvests and catalyzing a debate over the "slavery" of mandamiento (forced wage labor). At the heart of these disputes was the problem of how to achieve Guatemalan political m...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 73 - 108 |
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Duke University Press
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