8vo, cloth, xii + 272pp. First edition & printing. VG: light soiling to the cloth, solid hinges/joints, clean edges and text, previous owner's name to the front endpaper.

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Title

Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954

Publisher

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

0807821276

ISBN 13

9780807821275

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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Latin American History

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Although most discussions of the Guatemalan “revolution” of 1944–54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a decisive impact on the nature of change in Guatemala. He looks at the ways in which ethnic and class relations affected government policy and identifies the conflict generated in the countryside by new economic and social policies. Handy provides the most detailed discussion yet of the Guatemalan agrarian reform, and he shows how peasant organizations extended its impact by using it to lay claim to land, despite attempts by agrarian officials and the president to apply the law strictly. By focusing on changes in rural communities, and by detailing the coercive measures used to reverse the “revolution in the countryside” following the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzm�n, Handy provides a framework for interpreting more recent events in Guatemala, especially the continuing struggle for land and democracy.

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Jim Handy, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, is author of Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala.

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