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I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944 (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series) by David Carey Jr. is a law available to read on EtoBox.
What is I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944 (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series) about?
Given Guatemala's record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances and an important tool for advancing their agendas. As both a mirror and an instrument of the state, the judicial system simultaneously illuminates the limits of state rule and the state's abi
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- Author
- David Carey Jr.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292748699
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- True Crime, History, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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