The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October RevolutionUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 4 Νοε 2001 - 287 σελίδες "The time of freedom" was the name that plantation workers--campesinos--gave to Guatemala's national revolution of 1944-1954. Cindy Forster reveals the critical role played by the poor in organizing and sustaining this period of reform. |
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... Arévalo Bermejo, plantation workers joined up with peasants in the highlands to win a more just society. Agrarian radicalism pushed the revolution to more sweeping definitions of equality than most urban reformers had even imagined. By ...
... Arévalo's major gesture toward the Mayan majority entailed a campaign of literacy and school-building in the countryside, which was designed to civilize a “barbarous” nation. At the same time he tried to humanize, as it were, the ...
... Arévalo, reforms that sound very ambitious on paper were frequently unenforced, and hence unimpressive in practice. Until Arbenz, the revolution from above suffered from an absence of action and a surfeit of rhetoric. These were the ...
... Arévalo and Arbenz, by contrast, overwhelmingly requested anonymity, and most of the poorest did not even want their voices on tape. By the late 1990s, the poor were still requesting anonymity but often consenting to being tape recorded ...
... Arévalo's labor inspectors. Class biases likewise distorted the judgment of the diplomatic sources, whether U.S. or Mexican, insofar as most embassy officials failed to recognize the political agency of lower-class actors.10 Elite ...
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3 Birth of the Revolution | 74 |
4 Banana Workers and the United Fruit Company in Tiquisate | 117 |
5 Agrarian Radicalism in San Marcos 19441952 | 138 |
6 Local Struggles and Land Reform | 177 |
7 Elite Backlash and Revenge | 197 |
Interview with Three Coffee Workers | 223 |
Interview with Woman in the Struggle for Land | 225 |
List of Interviews | 227 |
Notes | 231 |
Works Cited | 271 |
Index | 279 |
Back Cover | 288 |
Conclusion | 214 |
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