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In this book, Theresa Singleton examines the rarely studied slave society of Cuba, focusing on the Santa Ana de Biajacas site.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Social archaeology --- Material culture --- Plantation life --- Coffee plantations --- Slavery --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Coffee farms --- Coffee tree farms --- Plantations --- Tree farms --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Country life --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Methodology --- Cuba --- Antiquities.

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"This book tells the story of a Maya frontier in Alta Verapaz at the heart of Guatemalan national elites' dreams for building a modern nation based on coffee production and German immigration in the late nineteenth century, which ultimately became the center of anti-German revolutionary nationalism in the 1940s and 1950s. While charting these shifting elite efforts to define and create modernity, this book highlights how Mayas sought to carve out other modernities based on a blend of Maya cosmologies and radical liberalism. This work illustrates how state officials and non-Maya coffee planters disavowed these alternative projects. Our Time is Now thus focuses on the potency of historical time in the making of modernity and race as well as the limits of writing disenchanted history. Bridging the fields of subaltern and new capitalism studies, this book highlights the centrality of race and indigenous coerced labor in the formation of capitalism and demonstrates the legacy of nineteenth-century political and economic struggles in Guatemala's bloody civil war"--

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.