Historical dictionary of Guatemala

The enormous series of historical dictionaries now published by Rowman and Littlefield has been under way for so long that the present volume is a replacement for one issued in 1973. In 730 articles of between 30 and 1,400 words, it presents a digest of information on people, places, parties, organizations, institutions, treaties, laws and cultural practices important to the history of Guatemala, which, readers will learn, is the largest of the Central American republics, whose inhabitants include both the highest percentage of indigenous peoples in Latin America (60 per cent) and the highest percentage of Protestants (40 per cent)....