Belize: Tracking the Path of Its History

Belize: Tracking the Path of Its History PDF

Author: Renate Johanna Mayr

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 3643904819

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"Belize belies its geographical location: It is a sparsely populated English-speaking enclave perched between Spanish-speaking countries. The colonization pattern was very unusual and its diplomatic status remained ambiguous for more than two centuries until it became an official British crown colony in 1862 and finally an independent nation in 1981. "--

Belize

Belize PDF

Author: O. Nigel Bolland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 0429717717

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Independent from Britain only since 1981, the new nation of Belize is situated at the intersection of two cultural spheres: the English-speaking Afro-Caribbean countries and the Spanish-speaking Central American republics. Its scanty population of about 150,000 is culturally heterogeneous, and its various ethnic groups coexist in a complex pattern

Maya History and Religion

Maya History and Religion PDF

Author: John Eric Sidney Thompson

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780806122472

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In this volume, a distinguished Maya scholar seeks to correlate data from colonial writings and observations of the modern Indian with archaeological information in order to extend and clarify the panorama of Maya culture.

From Colony to Nation

From Colony to Nation PDF

Author: Anne S. Macpherson

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0803206267

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The first book on women's political history in Belize, From Colony to Nation demonstrates that women were creators of and activists within the two principal political currents of twentieth-century Belize: colonial-middle class reform and popular labor-nationalism.

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