Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 19441954,Used

Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 19441954,Used

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Product DescriptionAlthough most discussions of the Guatemalan 'revolution' of 194454 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 Guzman, Handy provides a framework for interpreting more recent events in Guatemala, especially the continuing struggle for land and democracy.ReviewAn extensively researched, penetrating study of one of the most fascinating episodes in modern Latin America, Guatemala's October Revolution, 194454.Journal of Third World StudiesAbout the AuthorJim Handy, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, is author ofGift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala.

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