{"product_id":"revolution-in-the-countryside-jim-handy-9780807844380","title":"Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954","description":"Although most discussions of the Guatemalan \"revolution\" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, \u003ci\u003eRevolution in the Countryside\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Handy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807844381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807844380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.14w x 0.77d","brand":"Jim Handy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44254739726591,"sku":"9780807844380","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_423139e9-65bc-4a3d-ac15-a35ced05064b.jpg?v=1694614101","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revolution-in-the-countryside-jim-handy-9780807844380","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}