The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala
Author | : James Bateman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : 9780384035300 |
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Author | : James Bateman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : 9780384035300 |
Author | : Rebecca B. Galemba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804799133 |
The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca Berke Galemba details how these residents engage in and justify extralegal practices in the context of heightened border security, restricted economic opportunities, and exclusionary trade policies. Rather than assuming that extralegal activities necessarily threaten the state and formal economy, Galemba's ethnography illustrates the complex ways that the formal, informal, legal, and illegal economies intertwine. Smuggling basic commodities across the border provides a means for borderland peasants to make a living while neoliberal economic policies decimate agricultural livelihoods. Yet smuggling also exacerbates prevailing inequalities, obstructs the possibility of more substantive political and economic change, and provides low-risk economic benefits to businesses, state agents, and other illicit actors, often at the expense of border residents. Galemba argues that securitized neoliberalism values certain economic activities and actors while excluding and criminalizing others, even when the informal and illicit economy is increasingly one of the poor's only remaining options. Contraband Corridor contends that security, neoliberalism, and illegality are interdependent in complex ways, yet how they unfold depends on negotiations between diverse border actors.
Author | : Ronald Wright |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802137289 |
The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).
Author | : Frances Schaill Goodman |
Publisher | : Charles Scribner's Sons |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rebecca Berke Galemba |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2017-12-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1503603997 |
The Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca Berke Galemba details how these residents engage in and justify extralegal practices in the context of heightened border security, restricted economic opportunities, and exclusionary trade policies. Rather than assuming that extralegal activities necessarily threaten the state and formal economy, Galemba's ethnography illustrates the complex ways that the formal, informal, legal, and illegal economies intertwine. Smuggling basic commodities across the border provides a means for borderland peasants to make a living while neoliberal economic policies decimate agricultural livelihoods. Yet smuggling also exacerbates prevailing inequalities, obstructs the possibility of more substantive political and economic change, and provides low-risk economic benefits to businesses, state agents, and other illicit actors, often at the expense of border residents. Galemba argues that securitized neoliberalism values certain economic activities and actors while excluding and criminalizing others, even when the informal and illicit economy is increasingly one of the poor's only remaining options. Contraband Corridor contends that security, neoliberalism, and illegality are interdependent in complex ways, yet how they unfold depends on negotiations between diverse border actors.
Author | : James Bateman |
Publisher | : John Denson |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2008-11-29 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0557659833 |
The Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala is a lavishly illustrated orchid classic from the mid-19th century. This book describes an orchid expedition and the adventures that collectors experienced in the New World. Forty orchids are featured with beautiful full color illustrations. This book is a revised and expanded edition of the original 1843 edition. Originally, only royalty and the wealthiest men in Europe could purchase this book. Now it is available to every orchid enthusiast.
Author | : Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Guatemala |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Alexander Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Guatemala |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mensajero de Centro-América |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Guatemala |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harry Alverson Franck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Guatemala |
ISBN | : |