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- catalog abstract "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 a discussion 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 Guzman, Handy provides a framework for interpreting more recent events in Guatemala, especially the continuing struggle for land and democracy. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b5765059.
- catalog coverage "Guatemala Politics and government 1945-1985.".
- catalog coverage "Guatemala Rural conditions.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. The October Revolution -- 3. "A Sea of Indians": Rural Organization and Ethnic Conflict -- 4. Agrarian Reform: "The Most Precious Fruit of the Revolution" -- 5. Class, Ethnicity, Politics, and the Agrarian Reform -- 6. Community and Revolution -- 7. Communism and the Military -- 8. The Liberation.".
- catalog description "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 a discussion 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 Guzman, Handy provides a framework for interpreting more recent events in Guatemala, especially the continuing struggle for land and democracy. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-267) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 272 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Revolution in the countryside.".
- catalog identifier "0807821276 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807844381 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Revolution in the countryside.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Revolution in the countryside.".
- catalog spatial "Guatemala Politics and government 1945-1985.".
- catalog spatial "Guatemala Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Guatemala".
- catalog subject "972.8105/2 20".
- catalog subject "F1466.5 .H29 1994".
- catalog subject "Government, Resistance to Guatemala History.".
- catalog subject "Land reform Guatemala History.".
- catalog subject "Peasants Guatemala History.".
- catalog subject "Social conflict Guatemala History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. The October Revolution -- 3. "A Sea of Indians": Rural Organization and Ethnic Conflict -- 4. Agrarian Reform: "The Most Precious Fruit of the Revolution" -- 5. Class, Ethnicity, Politics, and the Agrarian Reform -- 6. Community and Revolution -- 7. Communism and the Military -- 8. The Liberation.".
- catalog title "Revolution in the countryside : rural conflict and agrarian reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954 / Jim Handy.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".