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Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their 'present' is our 'past' - and reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an orderly, natural process of evolution towards modernity. Our Time is Now reveals that modernity particularly appealed to those excluded from power, precisely because of its aspirational and future orientation. In the process, marginalized peoples creatively imagined diverse political futures that redefined the racialized and temporal terms of modernity. Employing a critical reading of a wide variety of previously untapped sources, Julie Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of time and history as well as practices of modern politics, economics, and social norms were central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolut

Kekchi Indians --- Germans --- Coffee plantations --- Nationalism --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Coffee farms --- Coffee tree farms --- Plantations --- Tree farms --- Ethnology --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Politics and government. --- Government relations. --- Land tenure. --- History. --- Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) --- Guatemala --- Verapaz, Alta (Guatemala) --- Verapaz (Guatemala) --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Ethnic relations --- History --- Causes. --- Economic conditions. --- Emigration and immigration.

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"An investigation of Guatemala's "Ten Years of Spring" (1944-1954), a remarkable period of open elections, moderate social reform, and widely successful literacy campaigns, with essays focusing on historical memory and human rights, the rethinking of revolutions and coups, and the move toward analyzing actors on the periphery of the Cold War"--

Social change --- Mayas --- Ethnic conflict --- Collective memory --- History --- Social conditions. --- Guatemala --- Politics and government --- Influence. --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Ethnic relations --- Social conflict --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Central America (Federal Republic)

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"An investigation of Guatemala's "Ten Years of Spring" (1944-1954), a remarkable period of open elections, moderate social reform, and widely successful literacy campaigns, with essays focusing on historical memory and human rights, the rethinking of revolutions and coups, and the move toward analyzing actors on the periphery of the Cold War"--

Social change --- Mayas --- Ethnic conflict --- Collective memory --- History --- Social conditions. --- Guatemala --- Politics and government --- Influence.