Topics in Latin America:
Contemporary Central America

Resources

Filochofo, a regular caricaturist for the Guatemalan daily, Siglo Veintiuno (www.sigloxxi.com.gt), complains of the destruction of trees in Guatemala City for the construction of ESSO gas stations. Nov 15, 2000

For a more extensive listn of internet resources, see the page with contemporary links in my Student Resources section

NOTES

Lecture 2-Colonial Central America-Kingdom of Guatemala
Lecture 3-Independence in Central America

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WEB

Latin American Guerrilla Movements of Late 20th Century (in French)

Political & Geographical Map of present-day Central America (large); (small)

World Atlas--Maps & Statistics, Central America; see also Central America

Maps of the Individual States of Central America (U Texas, P. Castañeda Colln)

Basic Sources for research in Foreign Policy Issues (on-line resources) (Prof. S. Volk, Oberlin College)

Central American Newspapers

Guatemala

Gerencia Noticias económicas de la Asociación de Gerentes de Guatemala.
La Hora Diario de Guatemala.
Prensa Libre Diario de la ciudad de Guatemala.
SigloXXI Diario de la ciudad de Guatemala.

Honduras

Honduras This Week English-language weekly in Tegucigalpa
La Prensa Diario de San Pedro Sula
La Tribuna Diario de Tegucigalpa
Tiempo Diario de San Pedro Sula

El Salvador

El Diario de Hoy Diario de San Salvador
Diario CoLatino Diario de San Salvador

Nicaragua

El Nuevo Diario Diario de Managua
La Prensa Diario de Managua
La Tribuna Diario de Managua
Notifax Noticias diarias de Managua
Ciberdiario de Nicaragua Noticias diarias en el Internet

Panama

El Siglo Diario de la Ciudad de Panamá
Diario Net Online
El Panamá América Diario de la Ciudad de Panamá
La Prensa Diario de Panama

Costa Rica

La Nación Diario de San José
La Prensa Libre Diario de San José
La República
Semanario Universidad Universidad de Costa Rica, UCR
Tico Times Online English-language weekly

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Library

Library Resources

Lucy Scribner Library, http://www.skidmore.edu/irc/library/

Skidmore Library Video Catalog, http://www/irc/library/videos/A.htm

Databases Relevant to the Study of History available at the Scribner Library Databases Page: http://www.skidmore.edu/irc/library/research/databases.htm

For Latin America

Handbook of Latin American Studies, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/hlashome.html

Hispanic-American Periodicals Index, http://hapi.gseis.ucla.edu/

For History

Historical Abstracts, http://sb1.abc-clio.com:81/

Social Sciences Abstracts, http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPrefs?entityjsdetect=:javascript=true:screensize=large:sessionid=sp02sw13-61587-cfhckni5-i0v5l1:entitypagenum=1:0

J-Stor (on-line scholarly articles, including the American Historical Review, to 1994), http://www.jstor.org/jstor/

Project Muse (variety of scholarly journals), http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/index.html

WorldCat, http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPrefs?entityjsdetect=:javascript=true:screensize=large:sessionid=sp03sw05-35389-cfhcil4t-mnialm:entitypagenum=1:0

Journals & Newspapers, http://www.skidmore.edu/irc/library/research/journals/index.htm

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Bibliography

Required Books

Burgos-Debray, Elizabeth, ed. (1984) I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Verso Press

Dalton, Roque (1988), Miguel Marmol, Kathleen & Richard Schaaf, trans.Curbstone Press.

Gould, Jeffrey L. (1988) To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians & the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965. Durham, NC: Duke U. Press, 1988.

Levenson-Estrada, Deborah (1994). Trade unionists against terror : Guatemala City, 1954-1985, Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press.

Stephen E. Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer (1982; 1999rev) Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press , 1999)

Other Required Readings

Berryman, Philip, "Church & Revolution," NACLA, March/April 1997, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/40/023.html

Berger, Susan A. (1997), "Environmentalism in Guatemala: When Fish Have Ears," Latin American Research Review, 32: 2, 99-116.

Booth, John,(1991)."Socioeconomic & Political Roots of National Revolts in Central America" Latin American Research Review: 33-73.

Arias, Arturo, "Changing Indian Identity: Guatemala's Violent Transition to Modernity" in Smith, Guatemalan Indians & the State, 1540-1988 (1990), p. 230-257.

Carmack, Robert M. "State and Community in 19th. Century Guatemala: The Momostenango Case," in Smith, Guatemalan Indians & the State, 1540-1988, (1990), p. 117-135.

Carmack, Robert M. ed (1988) Harvest of Violence: The maya Indians and the Guatemalan State, Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press

Chomsky, Aviva "Laborers and Smallholders in Costa Rica's Mining Communities, 1900-1940," in Lauria-Santiago & Chomsky, eds. (1998), pp. 169-195.

Collin, Richard H. (1990), Theodore Roosevelt's Caribbean: The Panama Canal, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Latin American Context, Baton Rouge, LSU Press, pp. 3-94, 127-338

Dunkerley, James (1990) Power in the Isthmus: A Political History of Modern Central America. Verso: London

Ebel, Roland H. (1992), "When Indians Take Power; Conflict & Consensus in San Juan Ostuncalco," in Carmack, ed. Harvest of Violence (1988) 174-191.

Gudmundson, Lowell (1989) "Peasant, farmer, proletarian: class formation in a smallholder coffee economy, 1850-1950," Hispanic American Historical Review, 69:2, May 1989, p. 221-257

Hinshaw, Robert E. (1992) "Tourist Town Amid the Violence: Panajachel" in Carmack, ed., Harvest of Violence (1990), p. 195-205.

Kincaid, David (1987). "Peasants into Rebels: community and class in rural El Salvador." Comparative Studies in Society and History 29(3): 466-494.

Lauria-Santiago, Aldo and Aviva Chomsky (1998) Identity & Struggle at the Margins of the Nation State Duke U. Press

Lauria-Santiago, Aldo, ""That a Poor Man Be Industrious": Coffee, Community and Agrarian Capitalism in the Transformation of El Salvador's Ladino Peasantry, 1850-1900," in Lauria-Santiago and Chomsky, eds. (1998), p. 25-51.

McCreery, David, "State Power, Indigenous Communities, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala, 1820-1920," in Smith, Guatemalan Indians & the State, 1540-1988 (1990), p. 95-116.

McCreery, David. "Coffee and Class: The Structure of Development in Liberal Guatemala." Hispanic American Historical Review 56, no. 3 (1976): 438-60.

Montgomery, Tommie Sue. "Getting to peace in El Salvador: the roles of the United Nations Secretariat and ONUSAL," Journal of Interamerican Studies, World Affairs, 37:4, Winter 1995, p. 139-172

Paige, Jeffery M. (1997) Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press

Pérez Brignoli, Héctor (1995) "Indians, communists, and peasants: the 1932 rebellion in El Salvador., in Coffee, society, and power in Latin America Edited by William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, and Mario Samper Kutschback. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995, p. 232-261.

Smith, Carol A. (1988) "Destruction of the Material Bases for Indian Culture: Economic Chagnes in Totonicapán" in Carmack, Harvest of Violence (1988), p. 206-231.

Smith, Carol A. ed (1990). Guatemalan Indians and the State, 1540-1988, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.

Smith, Carol A. (1995) "Race-Class-Gender Ideology in Guatemala: Modern and Anti-Modern Forms," Comparative Studies in Society & History 37:4, 723-249.

Stoll, David (1992) "Evangelicals, Guerrillas, and the Army: The Ixil Triangle Under Ríos Montt," in Carmack, Harvest of Violence (1988), p. 90-116.

Watanabe, John M. (1990), "Enduring Yet Ineffable Community in the Western Periphery of Guatemala," in Smith, Guatemalan Indians & the State, 1540-1988 (1990), p. 183-204.

DISCUSSANTS' READING

Adams, Richard N. (1994) "Guatemalan Ladinization and History," The Americas, April 1994, 527-543.

Euraque, Dario, "The Banana Enclave, Nationalism and Mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s-1930s," in Lauria-Santiago and Chomsky, eds., pp. 151-168.

Gleijeses, Piero (1991), Shattered Hopes: The Guatemalan Revolution and the U.S., 1944-1954 Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press.

Handy, Jim (1994) Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict & Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954 Chapel Hill, NC: Duke U. Press.

Harlow, Barbara. (1991) "Testimonio and survival: Roque Dalton's Miguel Marmol" Latin American Perspectives 18:4, Fall 1991, p. 9-21

Himelblau, Jack. "The sociopolitical views of Miguel Angel Asturias, 1920-1930," Hispania, 61, sept. 1977, p. 61-80.

Hodges, Donald C. (1986) Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolution Austin: University of Texas Press.

Lancaster, Roger (1993) Life is hard : machismo, danger, and the intimacy of power in Nicaragua : Berkeley : University of California Press.

Smith, Carol A (1990) "Origins of the National Question in Guatemala; A Hypothesis" in Smith, Guatemalan Indians & the State, 1540-1988, p. 72-95.

Stoll, David (1999) Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans Westview Pres, 1999.

Watanabe, John M. (1990), "Enduring Yet Ineffable Community in the Western Periphery of Guatemala," in Smith, Guatemalan Indians & the State, 1540-1988, p. 183-204.

Woodward, Ralph Lee (1990), "Changes in the Nineteenth Century Guatemalan State & Its Indian Policies," in Smith, Guatemalan Indians & the State, 1540-1988, p. 52-71.

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