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Ralph Lee Woodward
Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821-1871, 03/2012Book Chapter
As with economic development, during the Carrera years the social development and control of the population fell largely to institutions outside the government bureaucracy. This chapter is not a comprehensive social history of the period. Instead, it looks at several aspects of the government’s policy regarding health care and rural land and labor as indicators of the social concerns of the oligarchy and its treatment of the population in general. The following chapter continues this examination with a study of educational and cultural development in Carrera’s Guatemala. As in the colonial period, the welfare of the population was a matter
