Transition from Conservatism to Liberalism in Guatemala, 1865 - 1871

Clegern, Wayne M., “Transition from Conservatism to Liberalism in Guatemala, 1865 - 1871”, [with the exception of the first two paragraphs, this article was translated into Spanish and appeared as “Tránsito de Conservatismo a Liberalismo en Guatemala (1865 – 1871),” Revista del Pensamiento Centroamericano, 31 (Abril – Junio, 1976), No. 151: 60 – 65].

Wayne Clegern was a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Colorado State University, retiring in 2000. Before that he was a Professor of History at Louisiana State University, New Orleans, where he served as Chairman of the History Department.

Popol Vuh: Las Antiguas Historias del Quiché

Recinos, Adrián, (traductor), Popol Vuh: Las Antiguas Historias del Quiché, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1953.

Popol Vuh is a cultural narrative that recounts the mythology and history of the K'iche' people who inhabit the Guatemalan Highlands northwest of present-day Guatemala City. The Popol Vuh is a creation narrative written by the K'iche' people before the Spanish conquest of Guatemala,[2] originally preserved through oral tradition[3] until approximately 1550 when it was written down.[4] The survival of the Popol Vuh is credited to the 18th century Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez who made a copy of the original text in Spanish[3] The name "Popol Vuh" translates as "Book of the Community", "Book of Counsel", or more literally as "Book of the People".[5][6] The Popol Vuh includes the Mayan creation myth, beginning with the exploits of the Hero Twins Hunahpú and Xbalanqué.[7] As with similar texts (Chilam Balam, being one example), a great deal of the Popol Vuh's significance lies in the scarcity of early accounts dealing with Mesoamerican mythologies due to the purging of documents by the Spanish Conquistadors. (…)Since Brasseur's and Scherzer's first editions, the Popol Vuh has been translated into many other languages besides its original K'iche'.[37] The Spanish edition by Adrián Recinos is still a major reference, as is Recino's English translation by Delia Goetz.

Adrián Recinos (1886–1962)[1] was a Guatemalan historian, essayist, Mayanist scholar and translator, and diplomat. Recinos was a great student of national history, mainly of the Maya civilization and the ancient history of the K'iche' and Kaqchikel people. It was he who made the first edition in Spanish of the Popol Vuh, based on his translation of the manuscript found in the Newberry Library, Chicago, the United States. He also published his translations of other ancient Mayan manuscripts, including the Anales de los Cakchiqueles.

Las Casas, Guatemala and the Sad but Inevitable Case of Antonio de Remesal (Separata)

MacLeod, Murdo J., Las Casas, Guatemala and the Sad but Inevitable Case of Antonio de Remesal, reprinted from TOPIC: A Journal of the Liberal Arts, No. 20, fall, 1970.

Antonio de Remesal (Allariz, Orense, 1570 - Madrid, 1619)1 fue un eclesiástico e historiador español, cronista en Centroamérica.
(…)
Comenzó en 1615 su obra como historiador, y ésta se publicó en 1619 bajo el título de Historia de la provincia de San Vicente de Chiapas y Guatemala o Historia general de las Indias Occidentales y particular de la Gobernación de Chiapa y Guatemala, además de los temas mencionados en el títulos los libros poseen información sobre las islas Filipinas, sobre Oaxaca y Perú, la conquista de Pedro de Alvarado y sobre Bartolomé de las Casas.

In the Shadow of Death: Martinique and the World's Great Disasters

White, Trumbull, In the Shadow of Death: Martinique and the world's great disasters: a comprehensive account of the terrible calamity that befell the isles of the Caribbean sea, stricken by volcanic fires, The Publishers' Association, 1902. (very fragile; belonged to Cyril Creque)

From the author’s Preface:

The purpose of the present volume has been to combine in proper proportion, the various features which should give it permanent value for reading and reference no less than immediate value for its story of Martinique. With that in view, the chapters descriptive of the disasters of 1902, in Martinique, St. Vincent, Guatemala and elsewhere, are followed by a scientific explanation of the causes of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and kindred disturbances; a series of chapters relating the details of the most interesting historic disasters of the past, from Sodom and Gomorrah to the present day; and a complete and authentic account, historical and descriptive, of the whole West Indies, in which these latest disturbances occurred, and in which our own American interests are so rapidly advancing

Historia de la Provincia de San Vicente de Chiapa y Guatemala de la Orden de Predicadores, Tomos I, II & III

Ximénez, Fray Francisco, Historia de la Provincia de San Vicente de Chiapa y Guatemala de la Orden de Predicadores, Tomos I, II & III, Guatemala, C.A.: Biblioteca Goathemala de la Sociedad de Geografía e Historia, Enero de 1929; Diciembre de 1930, y Julio de 1931. (Primer tomo bastante deteriorado)

Biblioteca “Goathemala”

Tomo I disponible en línea aquí y aquí.

Extracto del Prólogo de Jorge del Valle Matheu (Tomo II):

El primer tomo de la historia aludida de Ximénez, comprende dos libros: en el primero se traduce la notable Biblia quiché, que es, según la valiosa opinión del sociólogo Bancroft, citada por el Licenciado Batres Jáuregui, “el más rico legado cosmogónico del Nuevo Mundo”. Desde el capítulo XXII, dicha historia hace una crítica de esta Biblia, y en el XXXVIII empieza a describir la conquista de Guatemala, terminando el libro con la fundación de la ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros en el Valle de Almolonga. El libro segundo se contrae a demostrar que los dominicos fueron los primeros evangelizadores en el Reino de Guatemala, y describe la escisión entre conquistadores y religiosos: avaros y crueles los primeros; benéficos los segundos. Sin desconocer el gran valor de este libro, creo que es mayor el del primero, que brinda al lector la psicología de los primitivos pobladores y dueños de Guatemala, impresa en el Popol Vuh.

Francísco Ximénez (November 28, 1666 – c.1729) was a Dominican priest who is known for his conservation of an indigenous Maya narrative known today as Popol Vuh. (…) Father Ximénez's sacerdotal service began in 1691 in San Juan Sacatepéquez and San Pedro de las Huertas where he learned Cakchiquel. In December 1693, Ximénez began serving as the Doctrinero of San Pedro de las Huertas. He continued in this office for at least ten years during which time he was transferred to Santo Tomás Chichicastenango (also known as Chuilá) from 1701-1703. Father Ximénez was also the curate of Rabinal from 1704 through 1714 and further served as the Vicario and Predicador-General of the same district as early as 1705.

Machine Age Maya: The Industrialization of a Guatemalan Community

Nash, Manning, Machine Age Maya: The Industrialization of a Guatemalan Community, The American Anthropologist: Memoir No. 87, Vol. 60, No. 2, Part 2, April 1958.

Reviewed in American Anthropologist.

Manning Nash (1924—December 12, 2001) was an anthropologist and ethnographer, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago until his retirement in 1994, and a specialist in the study of the modernization of developing nations in Latin America and Asia. Nash conducted the first anthropological study of a factory in a Third World country, and his expertise in modernization of developing nations led to his fieldwork in Guatemala, Mexico, Burma, Iran, and Malaysia.

Penny Capitalism: A Guatemalan Indian Economy

Tax, Sol, Penny Capitalism: A Guatemalan Indian Economy, Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology, Publication 16, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953.

Reviewed in American Anthropologist.

Reviewed in Technology and Culture © 1964.

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1967.

Reviewed in Ethnohistory © 1964.

Reviewed in Economic Development and Cultural Change © 1978.

Sol Tax (30 October 1907 – 4 January 1995) was an American anthropologist. He is best known for creating action anthropology and his studies of the Meskwaki, or Fox, Indians, for "action-anthropological" research titled the Fox Project, and for founding the academic journal Current Anthropology. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1935 and, together with Fred Eggan, was a student of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown.

Guatemala--Another Vietnam?

Melville, Thomas & Marjorie, Guatemala--another Vietnam?, Middlesex England: Penguin, 1971.

From the Editorial Foreword:

This is the story told by the Melvilles. It is of the first importance, not just for Guatemala, but also for all Latin America – where land reform remains the key to breaking the power of the continent’s oligarchic social structure. And of course the Melville’s story has a familiar ring, as the title suggests. In South Vietnam, in the areas liberated before 1954, the Viet Minh put through a land reform that expropriated the landlords. After 1954, when the Viet Minh withdrew, the government of Ngo Dinh Diem returned the land to the landlords. In this fertile soil, revolts grow. So too, in Guatemala, the land reform of Arbenz, once put into reverse, created conditions for rebellion.

See also the Catonsville Nine.

Fábula del Tiburón y las Sardinas

Arévalo, Juan José, Fábula del Tiburón y las Sardinas: América Latina Estrangulada, Santiago, Chile: Ediciones América Libre, 1956.

Available online at Questia.

Reviewed in The Journal of Developing Societies

Reviewed in Revue française de science politique, 1965.

Juan José Arévalo Bermejo (10 September 1904 – 8 October 1990) was the first of the reformist presidents of Guatemala. Preceded by military junta interregnum after a definitive pro-democracy revolt in 1944. Arévalo's 1944 election is considered by historians the first fair and democratic election in Guatemala's republican history; since independence from Spain, the country had seen a series of dictatorships.

Geografía de la América Central

Neri Fernández, Felipe, Geografía de la América Central, Guatemala: Tipografía nacional, 1926. {very fragile}

Citado como uno de los “Libros de la Biblioteca Mínima” (paginas 16 – 17) en esta tesis, que plantea el problema: ¿Cuáles son las razones de la no-consideración de la biblioteca escolar en la elaboración del Diseño de Reforma Educativa? [Guatemala]

La Batalla de Guatemala

Toriello, Guillermo, La batalla de Guatemala, Guillermo Toriello: México, 1955.

El Dr. Guillermo Toriello Garrido (Guatemala, 1911- Cuba, 1997) fue Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores en los gobiernos de Juan José Arévalo y Jacobo Arbenz. Presidiendo la delegación de Guatemala a la ciudad norteamericana de San Francisco (1945), fue uno de los firmantes de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas. Como Canciller, presidió la Delegación de Guatemala a la X Conferencia Interamericana efectuada en Caracas, Venezuela (1954). Fue el único de los 20 cancilleres presentes que votó en contra de la Resolución 93 que puso fin al principio de No Intervención. Tras el golpe de estado de la CIA al gobierno de Arbenz (1954), el Dr. Toriello vivió años de exilio en México y Europa.

Fundación Guillermo Toriello

Los Estafadores de la Democracia : Hombres y Hechos en Guatemala

Nájera Farfán, Mario Efraín, Los estafadores de la democracia: hombres y hechos en Guatemala, Buenos Aires: GLEM, 1956.

Citado AQUI.

Cultural and Historical Geography of Southwest Guatemala

Mc Bryde, Felix Webster*, Cultural and Historical Geography of Southwest Guatemala, Smithsonian Institute Social Anthropology Publication 4, 1947: 1–184.

Review

From the preface:

The present monograph, based primarily upon a thesis completed at the University of California for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in geography in 1940, is the result of field research which extended over many years. The work was made possible by the assistance and cooperation of a number of institutions and persons both in the United States and in Guatemala and several other American republics.

*Geographer, Military Intelligence Service, War Department.