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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... Mayans displaced by the violence on a national commission. For his advocacy he was stalked by military intelligence at a May Day rally in 1990, then disappeared a few days later. At that rally I saw his pursuer and I will never forget ...
... Mayan highlands, in the Ladino eastern departments, and on the lowland banana plantations unleashed struggles to achieve a radically egalitarian vision of rights to land and the dignity of labor. On the national level, however ...
... 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 economic dominance of the traditional ...
... Mayan campesinos come and go in solid masses, and after the revolution as before, they remain victims. While this assessment is accurate on the question of who suffered the worst consequences of the 1954 backlash, it does little to ...
... Mayan cultural area, and the region emerged as one of the world's cradles of urbanization.1 The Classic Mayan era, from about 250 c.e. to its demise around 900c.e., represented one of the hemisphere's most highly stratified pre ...
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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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The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 2001 |
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