Cover -- Distilling the Influence of Alcohol -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing a History of Alcohol in Guatemala -- 1. Consumption, Custom, and Control: Aguardiente in Nineteenth-Century Maya Guatemala -- 2. From Household to Nation: The Economic and Political Impact of Women and Alcohol in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala -- 3. "A Sponge Soaking up All the Money": Alcohol, Taverns, Vinaterías, and the Bourbon Reforms in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala -- 4. Alcohol and Lowdown Culture in Caribbean Guatemala and Honduras, 1898-1922 -- 5. Distilling Perceptions of Crime: Maya Moonshiners and the State, 1898-1944 -- Conclusion: Community Drunkenness and Control in Guatemala -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Illustrations -- Table 1.1. Guatemalan government income from aguardiente, 1827-1900 -- Map I.1. Map of Guatemala -- Map 3.1 Map of Santiago showing locations of vinaterías, 1768 -- Figure I.1. "Twenty-six clandestinistas of both sexes," 1933 -- Figure 4.1. Black stevedores, Costa Rica, circa 1920 -- Figure 4.2. Black stevedores, Mobile, Alabama, 1937 -- Figure 4.3. Juke joint in Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, 1940 -- Figure 4.4. Bodega in Panama, circa 1905 -- Figure 5.1. Four Treasury agents and a clandestinista, 1942 -- Figure 5.2. Treasury Police with clandestinistas and their wares, 1941 -- Figure 5.3. Stills decommissioned by the Treasury's Rural Guard, 1932 -- Figure 5.4. Police work in the interest of the Treasury, 1933.