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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... force in the country. In the words of a banana worker, “I'll tell you this: the thing was good. The government under Arbenz wanted to help us, it wanted the poor to be free. They were giving out land, and money, all so that the ...
... forces. In 1952 the Agrarian Reform Law swept the land, destroying forever the hegemony of the planters. Arbenz in ef- fect legislated a new social order. His brief presidency closed the gap between state and popular conceptions of ...
... forces in the country to a standstill. In the end, such actions redefined the state's relation to foreign corpora- tions and governments. While the history of state support took contrary paths in Tiquisate and San Marcos, unions emerged ...
... force, the crown's vassals in Guate- mala exerted all their cunning and prestige to secure their heirs' rights to en- comiendas, or grants of Indigenous land and labor.4 Royal oversight of rapacious landowners required the presence of a ...
... forces with provincial planters and they proceeded to impose reform by force of arms. The alliance was personified by the two leaders of the armed conspir- acy, the consummate politician and merchant Miguel García Granados and the San ...
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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 |
The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 2001 |
The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution Cindy Forster Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2001 |