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Gift of the Devil. A History of Guatemala.
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Handy, Jim
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972.81 H236
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Guatemala history has been dominated by a long string of revolts punctuated by periods of exploitation and suppression. It is a history of Sharp contrasts, of violent conflict between an oppressive elite and a majority Indian population.
Gift of the Devil traces Guatemala’s history from precolonial times to the present: including the 1838 peasant revolt led by Rafael Carrera, the repressive growth of the coffee and banana economies and the revolutionary “ten years of spring” of 1945 – 54. It is a history that has seen the ascendancy of a military elite – buttressed more than once by U.S. intervention – culminating int e recent decades of brutal military dictatorship and civil war. Throughout these painful years the Indian peasants of Guatemala have shown again and again their determination to organize in defense of their lives and land, a defense leading to the guerilla campaigns of the present. During it all, it has been the resilience of opposition forces that has best defined the essence o Guatemala life. The first full history of Guatemala to appear in several decades, Gift of the Devil reveals that the country’s current traumas are a bitter but logical extension of a past based on harsh colonial institutions, dispossession and racial an economic oppression. |
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Between The Lines
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1984
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Canada
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Toronto
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English
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Priscila Barrientos
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Priscila Barrientos
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30/05/2024
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01/06/2024
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