Download or read book Belize: Tracking the Path of Its History written by Renate Johanna Mayr and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Belize belies its geographical location: It is a sparsely populated English-speaking enclave perched between Spanish-speaking countries. The colonization pattern was very unusual and its diplomatic status remained ambiguous for more than two centuries until it became an official British crown colony in 1862 and finally an independent nation in 1981. "--