Forest Society : : A Social History of Peten, Guatemala / / Norman B. Schwartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Schwartz, Norman B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Ethnohistory Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 21 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Physical Environment and Population --; Chapter Two. Conquest, Depopulation, and Colonization, 1697-1821 --; Chapter Three. Social Continuity and Economic Stagnation, 1821-1890s --; Chapter Four. La Chiclería: An Extractive Economy --; Chapter Five. The Impact of Oro Blanco --; Chapter Six. Conclusion: Continuity, Change, and a New Turn --; Appendix: Status Continuity in Petén, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512806786; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512806786
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Norman B. Schwartz.

The author contends that for 250 years, roughly from the 1720s to the 1970s, the sociocultural system of Petén endured with remarkable continuity, not in spite of the changes in the hinterland region but, to an important degree, because of them.