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11%OFFJ. T. Way - The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala - 9780822351313 - V9780822351313
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The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

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Description for The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala Paperback. This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; GTF; HBJK; HBLW; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
In The Mayan in the Mall, J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts—where shopping malls and multinational corporate headquarters coexist with some of the Western Hemisphere's poorest and most violent slums—is the embodiment of globalized capitalism.

Using a wide array of historical and contemporary sources, Way explores the multiple intersections of development and individual life, focusing on the construction of social space through successive waves of land reform, urban planning, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822351313
SKU
V9780822351313
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About J. T. Way
J. T. Way is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Georgia State University.

Reviews for The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala
“The quirky mind of J. T. Way reveals a Guatemala not even seasoned hands are likely to recognize, one deformed by development in myriad modernist guise, a curse to most of its citizens, the blessing of a venal few.”—W. George Lovell, Queen’s University, Canada "Finally, a history of Guatemala City, a place that most scholars flee from despite its centrality ... Read more

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