1. The Greatest Indian City in the World: Caste, Gender, and Politics, 1750–1821

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. List of illustrations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Searching for the Living among the Dead 1
6. Prelude: A World Put Right, 31 March 1840 20
7. 1. The Greatest Indian City in the World: Caste, Gender, and Politics, 1750–1821 25
8. 2. Defending the Pueblo: Popular Protests and Elite Politics, 1786–1826 54
9. 3. A Pestilent Nationalism: The 1837 Cholera Epidemic Reconsidered 82
10. 4. A House with Two Masters: Carrera and the Restored Republic of Indians 99
11. 5. Principales to Patrones, Macehuales to Mozos: Land, Labor, and the Commodification of Community 110
12. 6. Regenerating the Race: Race, Class, and the Nationalization of Ethnicity 130
13. 7. Time and Space among the Maya: Mayan Modernism and the Transformation of the City 159
14. 8. The Blood of Guatemalans: Class Struggle and the Death of K’iche ’ Nationalism 198
15. Conclusions: The Limits of Nation, 1954–1999 220
16. Epilogue: The Living among the Dead 234
17. Appendix 1 Names and Places 237
18. Appendix 2 Glossary 241
19. Notes 243
20. Works cited 315
21. index 337