Labor and Love in Guatemala: The Eve of Independence

by Catherine Komisaruk

Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the "new" cultural history, the book transforms perspectives on the major social trends that emerged across Spain's American colonies: populations from three continents mingled; native people and Africans became increasingly hispanized; slavery and other forms of labor coercion receded. Komisaruk's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757046
• ISBN13: 9780804757041
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"