The Heart of the Country

The Primacy of Peasants and Maize in Modern Guatemala

Bibliographic Data

ID3187263
AuthorsDavid Carey (0000-0002-3873-9439, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume51
Issue2
Pages273-306
Publication date2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x18001116
OpenAlexW2905812967
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited37

Much of the agricultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America has been dominated by studies of export products and economies. Yet just as important for national development were domestic markets supplied by small-scale farmers. Using Guatemala as a case study for Latin America, this article examines the challenges faced by farmers producing for local, regional and national markets. Over the course of the national period, state authorities' sporadic concern for domestic agriculture provided indigenous small-scale farmers with opportunities to advance their agendas, which ranged from resisting forced labour to maintaining their traditional agricultural practices. By the 1930s, domestic foodstuff production had increased markedly because in the early twentieth century state authorities had joined small-scale farmers to actively promote domestic-use agriculture

Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political science · Scale (ratio) · State (computer science) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Cuban History and Society · Politics and Society in Latin America

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