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...-twentieth century was a watershed event for many Mayan farmers in Guatemala. While some Maya hailed synthetic fertilizers’ immediate effectiveness as a relief from famines and migrant labor, others lamented the long-term deterioration of their public health, soil quality, and economic autonomy. Since...

.... That is as true in Kerala and Nigeria as it is in Guatemala, if Kaqchikel Maya oral histories are any indication. Such conundrums and challenges notwithstanding, Handy concludes: “Getting out of the way [of peasants] would do more to build sustainable futures and decent lives than a hundred dams or a thousand...

.... In recent years, that same space has attracted significant historiographical attention, mainly as a frontier zone between Mexico and Guatemala, simultaneously claimed under Mexican and Guatemalan law until the signing of the 1882 border treaty. In this book s six chapters, we move from seeing the Soconusco...

... the Audiencia de Guatemala as a key node in global circuits for collecting, managing, and distributing information on natural resources, climate, and the environment. The book s geographic focus brings an original perspective to historiographies of the Enlightenment, Bourbon reform, and Atlantic revolutions...

... and themountains of Guatemala. Today, chia seed is consumed inMexico, the southwestern United States, and South America, but isnot widely known elsewhere. It is grown commercially in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. According toAyerza and Coates, with its richness in omega-3 fattyacid...

...-1723-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural History Spring Colby focuses on Guatemala and Costa Rica to examine how the presence of the company and its black workers shaped what he calls Hispanic Nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s (10). Despite the differences between...

... could have shown how the work of the survey company went beyond the measurement and sale of lands, and was also important in fixing, through maps, the frontier between Mexico and Guatemala, in addition to the internal boundaries between Chiapas and Tabasco. As a matter of personal interest, I would have...

... of race-based over class-based organizing among immigrant workers. Garveyism was especially strong among West Indian communities in Central America. 279 Agricultural History Spring Colby focuses on Guatemala and Costa Rica to examine how the presence of the company and its black workers shaped what he...

..., chia eluded extinction through small, remote plant ings among Nahua descendants in southwestern Mexico and themountains of Guatemala. Today, chia seed is consumed inMexico, the southwestern United States, and South America, but isnot widely known elsewhere. It is grown commercially in Argentina...

... creation of a relatively strong central government stood out. Although he termed his movement socialist and joined together with other anti-tyrant forces in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Venezuela to create the Caribbean Legion as well as abolishing Costa Rica s armed forces, Figueres also...

... station in Pete´ n (Guatemala) and held its workers hostage. For the Q eqchi , the almost three million hectares given protected status during the 1990s was just the latest chapter in a long history of dispossession. In a rich and compassionate account, Grandia traces the history of repeated enclosures...

... capitalists in that country, in particular the work of Steve Striffler, and also adheres to the standard banana republic narrative of the Caribbean basin from the 1910s onward, in particular for Guatemala and Honduras, and to a lesser degree Limon, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean coast of Colombia...

... knowledge of this complex subject. One of the largest of these gaps is the nature of ancient human adaptations to the karst depressions known as bajos that are a widespread physiographic feature across the southern and central Maya lowlands (comprising Guatemala's Peten district and adjacent areas of Mexico...

..., the authors also emphasize the differences in local situations of the countries and producing areas. For instance, whereas relations between United Fruit and its plan? tation workers in Guatemala were adversarial as the company tried strenuously to prevent unionization, labor relations in Ecuadorian...

.... Frontiers can be analyzed as military barriers or as contact zones. Sonia Alconini finds that the southeastern edge of the Inca Empire fitsneither model. Rather, the Inca formulated a flexible strategy that varied with the severity of threat. In Guatemala, the Peten Lakes were a region of refuge from...

... of this concept in various sites of a single area: the Three Rivers area, a geographically varied region spanning southern Quintana Roo (Mexico), northwestern Belize, and the northwestern Peten region of Guatemala. Rio Azul was the largest community, followed by La Milpa, but some six or seven other sites lay...

... for subcontractors and faced life and death conditions getting to and from the fields. Here, as elsewhere, comparative context is provided as we learn about similar developments in 1970s Latin America, including in Chile and Guatemala. Rogers elegantly details the human impact of Brazil's development model...

... forces, she overstates the agency of the farmers,however. She mentions, but does not emphasize sufficiently,exter nal factors such as the end of the Cold War, the international rise of neo liberalism, civilwar inneighboring Guatemala, Mexican immigration to the United States, and the establishment...

... historiographical attention, mainly as a frontier zone between Mexico and Guatemala, simultaneously claimed under Mexican and Guatemalan law until the signing of the 1882 border treaty. In this book s six chapters, we move from seeing the Soconusco in terms of national sovereignty questions and diplomatic conflict...

... assigned to UFCO divisions in Guatemala and Honduras. Bates fieldwork sensitized him to the nuances of the region s ecosystems and indigenous cultures. Years later, as a pre-eminent zoologist, he produced a trenchant critique of the the toplofty attitude of Westerners toward the tropics, which he...