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Article: Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954.
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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by Jim Handy. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 272 pp.
Whereas most works on the Guatemalan revolution (1944-1954) focus on the C.I.A.-sponsored coup and international politics, Jim Handy, professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, examines the ten years of rural conflict that preceded it. In contrast to other historians of twentieth-century Guatemala, who often view Guatemala as a U.S. foreign-policy problem, Handy approaches the controversial decade of reform from the countryside, with events in Washington relegated to a peripheral role. Consequently, Revolution in the Countryside represents a new and welcome ...