Guatamala

 

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu, E. Burgos-Debray, Ann Wright Paperback from Verso Books 1987

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen C. Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer, John H. Coatsworth, John H. Coatsworth Paperback from Harvard Univ Pr

Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala by Victoria Sanford Hardcover from Palgrave Macmillan

The Rough Guide to Guatemala (Guatemala (Rough Guides)) by Iain Stewart Paperback from Rough Guides 28 February, 2002

Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson Book Description: Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were "disappeared") at the hands of the U.S.-backed military goverment. In 1993 Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker, begins to investigate the arson of a coffee plantation's manor house by a band of guerrillas. The questions surrounding this incident soon broaden into a complex mystery that compels Wilkinson to seek out an impressive cross-section of the country's citizens, from coffee workers to former guerrillas to small-town mayors to members of the ruling elite. From these sources he is able to piece together the largely unwritten history of the long civil war, following its roots back to a land reform movement derailed by a U.S.-sponsored military coup in 1954 and, further back, to the origins of Guatemala's plantation system, which put Mayan Indians to work picking coffee beans for the American and European markets. Silence on the Mountain reveals a buried history that has never been told before, focusing on those who were most affected by Guatemala's half-century of violence, the displaced native people and peasants who slaved on the coffee plantations. These were the people who had most to gain from the aborted land reform movement of the early 1950s, who filled the growing ranks of the guerrilla movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and who suffered most when the military government retaliated with violence. Decades of terror-inspired fear have led Guatemalans to adopt a survival strategy of silence so complete it verges on collective amnesia. Wilkinson's great triumph is that he finds a way for people to tell their stories, and it is through these stories -- dramatic, intimate, heartbreaking -- that we come to see the anatomy of a thwarted revolution that is relevant not only to Guatemala but to any country where terror has been used as a political tool.  Hardcover from Houghton Mifflin Co

Guatemala Rainbow by Gianni Vecchiato Paperback from Pomegranate 1990

Long Life, Honey in the Heart: A Story of Initiation and Eloquence from the Shores of a Mayan Lake by Martin Prechtel Hardcover from J. P. Tarcher Out of Print - Try Used Books

Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope (California Series in Public Anthropology, 8) by Beatriz Manz, Aryeh Neier Hardcover from University of California Press

Lightning Warrior : Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua by Matthew G. Looper Hardcover from Univ of Texas Press

Guatemala: Never Again! by Archidiocese of Guatemala, Thomas Quigley Paperback from Orbis Books

Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala by Edward F. Fischer, R. McKenna Brown Paperback from Univ of Texas Press

In Focus Guatemala: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture by Trish O'Kane Paperback from Interlink Pub Group

Guatemalan Journey by Stephen Connely Benz Paperback from Univ of Texas Press

Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process by Susanne Jonas, Marrack Goulding Paperback from Westview Press

The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation (Latin America Otherwise) by Greg Grandin Paperback from Duke Univ Pr (Txt)

Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala by Jim Handy Paperback from South End Press

The CIA in Guatemala : The Foreign Policy of Intervention by Richard H. Immerman Paperback from Univ of Texas Press 1983

A Beauty that Hurts : Life and Death in Guatemala by W. George Lovell Paperback from Univ of Texas Press

Doing Business With the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala 1899-1944 (Latin American Silhouettes) by Paul J. Dosal Hardcover from Scholarly Resources

Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan Companeros and Companeras by Jennifer Harbury, Noam Chomsky Paperback from Common Courage Press

Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico by Ronald Wright Paperback from Grove Press

Secret History: The Cia's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 by Nick Cullather, Piero Gleijeses Paperback from Stanford Univ Pr

Tikal: An Illustrated History of the Ancient Maya Capital by John Montgomery Paperback from Hippocrene Books

Women Who Live Evil Lives : Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750 by Martha Few Paperback from Univ of Texas Press

The Guatemalan Tax Reform by Roy Bahl, Sally Wallace, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Paperback from Westview Press

The History of Guatemalan Coffee by Regina Wagner, Cristobal Von Rothkirch Hardcover from Villegas Editores

Images from the Underworld : Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting by Andrea J. Stone Hardcover from Univ of Texas Press

Rural Guatemala 1760-1940 by David J. McCreery Paperback from Stanford Univ Pr

Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities: Aerial Views of Pre-Columbian Ruins in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras by William M. Ferguson, Richard E. W. Adams Paperback from University of New Mexico Press

Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy by Victor Perera, Daniel Chauche Paperback from University of California Press

 

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