For a long time, the genre of Belizean historiography has been defined by a blindness toward the Earth. If colonial historiography treated the Earth as nothing more than brute nature—a blank canvas upon which the British did their business—then critical or post-colonial historiography has generally ignored the problem. Odile Hoffmann confronts this situation with a major two-part intervention into Belizean…
This book is based on a rare account of Belize's early logging days from the journal of Colonel James Lawrie, one of the most significant mahogany and logwood cutters in Belize during the last quarter of the 19th century.
This book is based on the study “Male Social Participation and Violence in Urban Belize”, which was completed in 2010, Belize’s first comprehensive study of social violence.
In this collection of essays, distinguished economists, conservationists, lawyers, sociologists, and other scholars-all longtime observers of Belize and its people-take stock.