Format:
Lit. S. 221-226
ISBN:
0822322021
Content:
Contrary to numerous studies about Guatemala's revolution from 1944 to 1954 which focus primerly on the relations between urban revolutionary leaders, the agrarian elite, the United Fruit Company and the United States, the author emphasizes the critical role of peasants and plantation workers in the shaping of the revolution and the eventual U.S. decision to overthrow it. The labor struggles in two different regions are analyzed: the coffee producing region of San Marcos, populated by migrant Indians, and the Pacific coast banana zone with its Spanish-speaking ladino workers. (DÜI-Huj)
In:
Identity and struggle at the margins of the nation-state, Durham [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 1998, , Seite 196-226, 0822322021
In:
0822322188
In:
pages:196-226
Language:
English
