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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... revolutionary programs were concerned, women often remained invisible. By the late 1940s their exclusion by omission came back to haunt the revolutionary state when the right wing succeeded in organizing decisive female support. Similar ...
... revolutionary project that diverged from the urban trajectory in critical ways. The role of campesinos has been obscured, however, for a number ofreasons. In the first place, Guatemalans with access to the written word mostly ...
... revolutionary process most closely, since they had given refuge to so many Guatemalan intellectuals and organizers over the decades of dictatorship. The leaders of the Guatemalan revolution—like the moderate reformers in Bolivia and ...
... revolutionary transformation was the exclusion of that majority by many Ladino revolutionaries. Under Arévalo, reforms that sound very ambitious on paper were frequently unenforced, and hence unimpressive in practice. Until Arbenz, the ...
... revolutionary state in the same way as were the “crimes” of the poor. The oral histories reach beyond the current literature, which has mined the memories of national leaders. I conducted some seventy-one anonymous and eight named ...
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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 |