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Florencia E. Mallon, Severo Martínez Peláez. La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala, Susan M. Neve, W. George Lovell, W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2009. Pp. lii, 329. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95., The American Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 1, February 2011, Pages 135–137, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.1.135
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Twenty‐five years ago, while doing research in the Mexican state of Puebla for what would become Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru (1995), I found an especially interesting volume in one of Puebla city's bookstores. It was a hefty tome, even in paperback, some 638 pages without counting footnotes and bibliography. It was the seventh edition of this, Severo Martínez Peláez's most well‐known book, published by the Autonomous University of Puebla in 1982. The story told on the back side of the title page was both dramatic and familiar by the mid‐1980s. The first edition had been published in 1970 by San Carlos University, famous as the intellectual and political center of Guatemala's radical leftist generation. After that, following its author and many others who, after 1954 and again in the 1970s, went into exile, the book left Guatemala. Five editions were published in Costa Rica between 1972 and 1979 until finally, along with its author, the book found a new home in Puebla.
