Optics and the Culture of Modernity in Guatemala City Since the Liberal Reforms
In the years after the Liberal Reforms of the 1870s, the capitalization of coffee production and buttressing of coercive labour regimes in rural Guatemala brought huge amounts of surplus capital to Guatemala City. Individual families—either invested in land or export houses—and the state used this n...
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| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-09-1249 |