Introduction: Searching for the living among the dead
Prelude: A world put right, 31 March 1840
The greatest Indian city in the world: caste, gender, and politics, 1750-1821
Defending the pueblo: popular protests and elite politics, 1786-1826
A pestilent nationalism: the 1837 Cholera Epidemic reconsidered
A house with two masters: Carrera and the restored republic of Indians
Principales to patrones, Macehuales to Mozos: land, labor, and the commodification of community
Regenerating the race: race, class, and the natiionalization of ethnicity
Time and space among the Maya: Mayan modernism and the transformation of the city
The Blood of Guatemalans: class struggle and the death of Kiche nationalism
Conclusions: the limits of nation, 1954-1999
Epilogue: The living among the dead.
